The Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance released results from its Roadcheck 2007 truck safety inspection program held last month, citing higher levels of hours of service violations but improvements in safety belt use among drivers.
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Port of Oakland to Launch GPS Tracking System
Trucking companies, owner-operators and shippers at the Port of Oakland, Calif., and Oakland’s World Trade Center will be able to track freight using Global Positioning System technology starting in about six months.
July 9, 2007
Matt Silver, CEO of Cargado, discusses how AI, data and smarter platforms are reshaping cross-border shipping.
Editorial: Endings and New Beginnings
This week’s issue of Transport Topics is the last one that will be produced at 2200 Mill Road in Alexandria, Va., the headquarters of American Trucking Associations, our owner, for almost 24 years.
July 9, 2007Ontario to Introduce Legislation on Speed Limiters
The Ontario government will introduce legislation this fall to adopt a proposal put forward by the Ontario Trucking Association almost two years ago to make 65-mph speed limiters on trucks mandatory, OTA said last week.
July 9, 2007DOT, California at Odds Over Emissions Plan
The U.S. Transportation Department believes that California’s plan to enact a program to cut global-warming emissions from vehicles is a state-level fuel-economy rule, Bloomberg reported.
July 2, 2007Letters to the Editor: Hours of Service, Hypermiling, EOBRs
The critics of a nonsynchronized hours-of-service application tend to be somewhat too closely affiliated with the providers of onboard solutions.
July 2, 2007Editorial: Improving SafeStat, Again
The votes are in, and it’s clear that while federal referees believe that the SafeStat carrier-safety scoring program has been improved in recent times, they agree that it’s not yet ready for prime time.
July 2, 2007ISM Factory Index Rises in June
The Institute for Supply Management’s manufacturing index rose at the fastest pace in 14 months, ISM said Monday.
July 2, 2007Nafta Surface Trade Jumps 5.3%
Surface trade among the United States, Canada and Mexico was 5.3% higher in April than a year earlier, the biggest year-to-year increase since August 2006, the Department of Transportation said.
June 29, 2007DOT Inspector General Urges More SafeStat Improvements
WASHINGTON — The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration’s safety rating system has been improved but is still not ready to return to public view, said the Department of Transportation’s inspector general.
July 2, 2007