In an industry that endures a constant stream of regulatory changes, more revisions are always brewing. When commercial driver’s licenses first became federally required in the 1980s, the industry survived. When more changes rolled out in the decades after — annual...
Trucking companies that use owner-operator independent contractors may not be able to rely on arbitration clauses to avoid lawsuits from those drivers in the wake of a new U.S. Supreme Court decision. The court ruled Jan. 15 that Missouri-based trucking company New...
American Trucking Associations released its quarterly turnover rate numbers for the trucking industry, showing a decline of 11 percentage points in the third quarter for large truckload carriers. This puts turnover at 87% for large truckload carriers, the lowest point...
The new year kicks off with a step forward into the future for trucking. Rear-view camera developer Stoneridge announced that its exemption application to federal law was approved in late December by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration. The decision will...
Looking back, looking forward. It’s what we do here at the end of the year, an artificial boundary in time. Reporting on the trucking industry was eventful in 2018, and it looks to get even more exciting in 2019. Here are nine areas I believe we’ll be keeping a...
The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration’s pre-holiday granting of petitions to preempt California’s meal and rest break rules for truck drivers, which differ from current federal hours-of-service regulations, is being met with either cheers or jeers from a...
