WASHINGTON āĀ The Obama administration will ban texting by truck drivers and restrict the use of other in-cab technologies as part of its effort to eliminate distracted driving, Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood said.
October 2, 2009BusinessSafety
August Freight Volumes Climb to Highest Level in Six Months
August truck tonnage volumes reinforced signs of a recovering economy, reaching the highest level in six months and recording the best year-over-year performance since November, according to American Trucking Associations.
October 5, 2009BusinessSafety
Industry Leaders Gather in Las Vegas as Economic Outlook Brightens
As signs of an evolving U.S. economic rebound in-crease, trucking industry leaders will gather in Las Vegas, Oct. 4-7, at American Trucking Associationsā annual Management Conference & Exhibition.
October 5, 2009BusinessSafetyGovernment
Lawmakers Pitch Solutions to Driver Texting āEpidemicā
WASHINGTON ā While government officials, researchers and industry executives debated the merits of limiting driver distractions, state and federal lawmakers used last weekās distracted driving summit to pitch their various solutions to what Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood called āan epidemic.ā
October 5, 2009BusinessSafetyGovernment
Rail, Intermodal Traffic Drop
Intermodal rail traffic in the United States fell 16.5% last week from the same week a year ago, the Association of American Railroads said in its weekly report.
October 2, 2009BusinessSafetyGovernment
ISM Factory Index Slips But Shows Expansion
An index of U.S. manufacturing activity declined slightly in September but showed overall expansion, the Institute for Supply Management said Thursday.
October 1, 2009BusinessSafetyGovernmentLogistics
LaHood, at Summit, Calls Distracted Driving āEpidemicā
WASHINGTON ā Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood said Wednesday that the Department of Transportationās two-day distracted driving summit was likely to result in āsomething legislativelyā to ban texting and driving, which he termed a national āepidemic.ā
October 1, 2009BusinessSafetyGovernment
NAFTA Surface Trade Falls 28% in July
Surface transportation trade among the United States, Canada and Mexico plunged 28% in July from a year earlier, though rose from June, the Department of Transportation said.
September 30, 2009BusinessSafetyGovernment
Chicago Manufacturing Index Falls
Manufacturing activity in the Chicago area shrank in September, the Institute for Supply Chain Management-Chicago said Tuesday.
September 30, 2009GovernmentBusinessSafety
Opinion: Todayās Quiz: Truck A or Truck B?
Itās September and all over the country, Americaās children are back in school. You donāt need to be a child, of course, to benefit from education and training, something particularly true in the trucking industry, where itās vitally important for everyone involved to be at the top of his or her game.
September 30, 2009