Transportation Compliance News

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Transport Topics government and regulatory coverage keeps managers of a highly-regulated industry aware of the policy decisions that can shape their businesses. Covering both the legislative and regulatory aspects of policy-making, at both the state and national levels, the news in this category includes looks at infrastructure, hours of service, emissions rules, funding measures, leadership appointments, and more. Readers can follow what’s happening in Congress, at the Department of Transportation and the Federal Motor Carrier Administration, and in state and local governments.

Government, Business

NAFTA Surface Trade Rose 14.3% Last Year

Surface transportation trade among the United States, Canada and Mexico rose 14.3% last year from 2010, the Department of Transportation said Wednesday.

March 21, 2012
Business, Safety, Government

P.A.M. Declares Special Dividend

P.A.M. Transportation Services said its board of directors has approved a special dividend of $1 per share.

March 21, 2012
Government

ATA Critical of CSA Program’s Crash Accountability Delay

Federal regulators have bowed to anti-truck groups and unfairly called into question the integrity of police accident reports by delaying development of a process that could remove unpreventable crashes from carriers’ safety records, American Trucking Associations officials said Tuesday.

March 20, 2012
Business, Safety, Government, Autonomous

NationaLease President Scoggins Retires

Gene Scoggins, president of the NationaLease truck-leasing organization, is retiring after 37 years in the transportation industry.

March 19, 2012
Business, Government

TCA’s New Leader, Robert Low, Eager to Improve Driver Health

Prime Inc. President Robert Low puts his commitment to improving truckers’ health on the line at lunchtime, playing full-court basketball with co-workers.

March 19, 2012
Business, Government, Logistics

Consumer Confidence Declines

Consumer confidence decreased this month, according to the Thomson Reuters/University of Michigan consumer sentiment index released Friday.

March 16, 2012
Business, Government

New York Manufacturing Index Rises

Manufacturing activity in the New York region expanded in March at the fastest rate since June 2010, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York said Thursday.

March 15, 2012
Government

FMCSA to Delay CSA Review Process

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration will delay its plans to implement a much-anticipated Compliance, Safety, Accountability program process that would have allowed carriers to seek an accountability review of crashes that went on their safety records, a top American Trucking Associations safety executive said.

March 14, 2012
Government, Business

Ind., Ky. to Share $2.6 Billion Cost of Two Ohio River Toll Bridges

The governors of Indiana and Kentucky have signed an agreement to share construction costs for two new toll bridges across the Ohio River that are projected to cost truckers $10 to cross.

March 13, 2012
Government, Business

Pa. Turnpike Considering Electronic Tolling Plan

A plan by the Pennsylvania Turnpike to move toward electronic tolling would put a 76% surcharge for motorists who do not use E-ZPass devices, the Philadelphia Inquirer reported Tuesday.

March 13, 2012