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Trucks move the economy, and they do a superb job. One- and two-day delivery wouldn’t be possible without the nation’s truck army. But when trucks are involved in a crash, the results are often disastrous. How do we make trucking even safer? I recently spoke to the National Private Truck Council (NPTC), which represents about […]
The FAST Act requires FMCSA to create a corrective action plan to (1) respond to the deficiencies or opportunities identified in the NAS study, (2) identify the Agency’s plans for addressing such deficiencies or opportunities, and (3) provide a cost estimate with respect to changes in staffing, enforcement, and data collection the Agency must make […]
The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) regulates the number of hours per daythat commercial motor vehicle (CMV) drivers are allowed to be on-duty, which includes total driving hours. Currently, property-carrying CMV drivers are allowed a maximum of 14 on-duty hours per day, with an 11-hour daily driving limit. Since 2005, industry concerns over various […]
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech) Transportation Institute received a $7.5 million federal grant to develop an automated trucking fleet to help set industry guidelines for autonomous vehicle technology that could eventually lead to driverless trucks. Virginia Tech’s grant, along with seven others, were part of a $60 million package awarded on Sept. […]
Alabama resident Dixie Shannon said she was the victim of human trafficking while attending duel enrollment classes as a minor. Human trafficking can happen in a community’s own backyard, and most people never even realize it. “When I was 17, I just knew there were a lot of demands out of me. They were asking […]
A preliminary report has been released into the crash that killed three people and injured four others in Pike County in late July. In its report, the Alabama Law Enforcement Agency found that the crash that killed Trey Strickland, 18, and Michael Sanders, 17, on July 29 was caused, in part, by the bright headlights […]
This section will attempt to stay away from the typical traditional safety recommendations in order to concentrate on those discovered from the research that is summarized in the next section. This does not mean that the safety practices typically taught as standard large truck training are not important. They are important and should be given […]
Plenty of people know it’s the law to move over for emergency vehicles on the side of the road, but did you know you must move over for tow trucks, too? On Sunday, tow truck and emergency vehicle operators gathered together and boosted awareness for the move over law in the second annual Move Over […]
Caitlin Hughes, director of the Federal Highway Administration’s office of freight management and logistics, noted in a presentation at the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials 2018 Joint Policy Committee meeting in Spokane, Washington on July 18 that a nationwide truck parking survey now expected to start this August is going to be […]
Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) officials have withdrawn a slate of proposed “enhancements” to the Compliance, Safety, Accountability program’s Safety Management System to make way for a small-scale test in September of a new statistical data model intended to better identify high-risk carriers. Those proposed enhancements eliminated by the agency included: Changing some of […]