Trucking Industry Safety News

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Transportation businesses face a host of dynamic risk issues that can significantly impact their financial and operational health. The news in this category focuses on the latest safety and security initiatives, resources and regulations and addresses topics that include fleet safety, claims administration, driver hiring and retention, risk management and compliance.

GovernmentBusinessSafetyLogistics

Maine Awarded $61 Million for Bridge Work

Maine has been awarded $61 million in federal grants to help replace eight aging highway bridges over the next five years. The two federal grants will help fund construction of bridges on Interstate 295, in Franklin County and Madawaska.

September 5, 2019
TechnologySafety

Improve Safety For Your Entire Fleet With Video Technology

Fleets using independent contractors (owner-operators) sometimes believe they must choose between deploying the safety technologies and minimizing the risks of employment classification challenges. In this webinar, we’ll discuss ways that some fleets have found to do both. Trucking and legal experts will explain how fleets with independent contractors can rethink their traditional views on technology based safety programs.

September 5, 2019
GovernmentBusinessSafetyFuel

Fleets, Logistics Firms Mobilize as Dorian Inches Up Coast

As Hurricane Dorian continued to creep up the East Coast and terminals shuttered in anticipation, logistics groups launched into action.

September 5, 2019
BusinessEquipmentSafetyFuel

Driver Detention Has Increased in Recent Years, ATRI Finds

Driver detention at customer facilities has increased in recent years, according to new data from the American Transportation Research Institute.

September 4, 2019
BusinessTechnologySafetyAutonomous

Tesla Autopilot Is Found Partly to Blame for 2018 Freeway Crash

U.S. transportation safety investigators found Tesla Inc.’s design of its automated driver-assist system was partly to blame for a crash in which an inattentive driver slammed into a fire truck parked on a freeway near Los Angeles in 2018.

September 4, 2019
BusinessTechnologySafetyAutonomous

TomTom Maps Out Revamp With Bet on Self-Driving Cars

Once a household name for its satellite navigation for cars, TomTom NV has taken a backseat in recent years as smartphones, loaded with apps such as Google maps, surged in popularity.

September 4, 2019
GovernmentBusinessEquipmentSafety

FMCSA Proposes 2020, 2021 Reductions to Commercial Vehicle Registration Fees

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration has issued a proposed rule that would continue to reduce commercial vehicle registration fees in 2020 and 2021, the agency said in a Federal Register announcement on Aug. 27.

September 3, 2019
GovernmentBusinessSafety

Scam Uses DOT Biennial Update Deadlines to Target Wisconsin Trucking Firms

Wisconsin-based trucking companies have been warned about scam letters informing them they have accrued late fees by failing to file their biennial update with the U.S. Department of Transportation on time.

September 3, 2019
BusinessTechnologySafetyAutonomous

Tesla Driver Seen Gazing Down Before 2018 Crash on Autopilot

The driver of a Tesla Inc. car that slammed into a fire truck in Southern California last year was looking down at what appeared to be a mobile phone while the car’s Autopilot feature was engaged, according to a witness report and other data released by investigators.

September 3, 2019
GovernmentBusinessSafetyLogistics

New Jersey Mall Could Mean Wall-to-Wall Traffic

After 16 years of false starts, the behemoth American Dream retail and amusement complex is set to open just west of Manhattan. To get there, an expected 40 million visitors must join the traffic-choked roads of northern New Jersey.

September 3, 2019