Earlier this month, DOT had made an announcement about their new pilot program for young teens. The program would give military veterans or reservists that are ages 18 to 21 the opportunity to be in the trucking industry. These young adults will be able to operate commercial vehicles interstate if accepted to be a part of the program. Elaine L. Chao, the U.S. Secretary of Transportation, made the…
*Read about the newest Trucker Technology here. It is a disaster when a computer or smartphone crashes, then imagine the what will happen if the software powering an autonomous truck unexpectedly freezes or shuts down. The potential for software to cause crashes of a much more violent and deadly variety is rising to the top of the transportation industry’s agenda this year following a series of recalls linked to flawed…
*For the new generation of Truck Drivers, click here, to read how to inspect your truck safely before every trip. Doing trucking job is a tough one. Spending a long time away from home and earning low wages (the average pay for an interstate truck driver is $43,663 per year, according to PayScale.com) are major impediments to replenishing an aging workforce with younger, better-educated drivers. On top of that, the…
The Advocates for Highway and Auto Safety and The Trucking Alliance have written senators asking them to oppose legislation introduced in May that would exempt livestock haulers from ELD requirements. The bill, “The Transporting Livestock Across America Safely Act (S. 2938),” was introduced on May 23 by Sen. Benjamin Sasse (R-NE). In their letter, the 2 groups said the bill will do nothing for improving roadway safety and will…
The California Trucking Association has joined a task force whose mission is to battle human trafficking. On Tuesday, the association announced that it joined Sacramento Together. The announcement at Sacramento 49er Travel Plaza came alongside the district attorneys of Sacramento and Yolo counties, as well as the California Highway Patrol and Truckers Against Trafficking. "Combating human trafficking has been a top priority for the men and women in…
A California trucking company owner and two employees have been indicted by a federal grand jury following a 2014 gasoline tanker explosion that killed one man and severely injured another. The indictment charges 59-year-old trucking company owner Carl Bradley Johansson, 43-year-old Enrique “Henry” Garcia, and 66-year-old Donald Cameron Spicer. The indictment also charged the now-defunct Corona-based trucking company National Distribution Services, Inc. (NDSI) and the company that it reportedly…
Property-carrying commercial motor vehicle drivers operating their vehicle without a required registered electronic logging device (ELD) or a grandfathered automatic onboard recording device (AOBRD) will be placed out of service for 10 hours, now that the April 1 "hard enforcement" deadline has passed on the electronic logging device mandate. ELD violations will be recorded on a roadside inspection report and the driver may be cited (issued a violation ticket…
Many truckers and industry insiders thought that a federal rule enacted late last year that requires truckers to use electronic logging devices to track driving time would disrupt freight and logistics. It hasn’t happened. This is how the device changes it all. • Growth of Employment Drivers threatened to leave the industry, but they aren’t leaving. Trucker employment is growing, adding almost 19,000 jobs over the past year. …
Tractor trailers ban has been instated in New York and New Jersey yet another winter storm bears down on the East coast. The ban in New Jersey began at 8:00 p.m. on March 20th and the New York ban began at around 6:00 a.m. on March 21st. In New Jersey, the commercial vehicle travel ban is in effect for the entire length of the following…
Semi-trucks traveling across Texas will soon be banned from entering the city limits of Odessa. Traffic Coordinator in the City of Odessa, Texas, Hal Feldman says that the idea for the truck ban has been in the planning stages for over a year, but that, by the end of March, signs alerting truck drivers of the new policy will be raised along Interstate 20 and Loop 338. “There’s…