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Postal Service to End Same-Day Delivery Experiment

The U.S. Postal Service will end a same-day delivery experiment in San Francisco on March 1 after it could not find enough retailers to participate, Bloomberg News reported.

February 10, 2014

Drug and Alcohol Clearinghouse Proposal to Come Feb. 14, DOT Says

A proposal to create a national database of truck drivers’ positive drug-and-alcohol test results will be made public Feb. 14, the Department of Transportation said.

February 10, 2014

FMCSA Declares 2 Drivers Imminent Hazards, Puts Them Out of Service

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration has declared two drivers to be imminent hazards to public safety and taken them off the road.

February 7, 2014

LTLs’ 4Q Results Improve Despite Winter Storms

Three publicly traded less-than-truckload operators reported improved fourth-quarter earnings despite challenges such as severe weather, but profit slipped at a fourth fleet on higher insurance costs.

February 10, 2014

Hersman Disturbed by Cuts in Collection of Crash Data

A loss of research data is “disturbing” and will hamper the ability of federal agencies to effectively regulate truck safety, said Deborah Hersman, chairman of the National Transportation Safety Board.

February 10, 2014

FDA Proposes Tougher Food-Shipping Rules Aimed at Reducing Risk of Contamination

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has issued a proposed rule that will toughen the requirements for truckers carrying food, as well as shippers and receivers.

February 10, 2014

Two Trailer Makers Set Sights on Moving Vans to Capitalize on Growing Relocation Market

A pair of leading dry-freight trailer manufacturers told Transport Topics they are prepared to supply 53-foot household goods vans — a market dominated by another manufacturer — to carriers anticipating a moving season that could become the best in years.

February 10, 2014

GAO Critical of CSA Data

The U.S. Government Accountability Office said last week that some data included in the federal government’s Compliance, Safety Accountability program do not have a “strong predictive relationship with crashes.”

February 10, 2014

Shuster Rejects Fuel-Tax Hike to Fund Next Highway Bill

WASHINGTON — After saying for a year that all options need to be “on the table,” House Transportation Committee Chairman Bill Shuster (R-Pa.) last week took higher fuel taxes off the menu of ways to pay for transportation.

February 10, 2014

NTSB’s Hersman Frustrated by Unresolved Safety Issues

Stubbornly high out-of-service rates in trucking and enduring arguments over safety data are among the issues that remain unresolved, despite the efforts by government officials and industry executives, National Transportation Safety Board Chairman Deborah Hersman said.

February 10, 2014