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Trucking News: Virginia bills cover multiple truck issues

safety1 — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 21:31:28 +0000

Trucking issues are the topic of various bills offered at the Virginia statehouse. Issues addressed include IFTA, truck weights, engine brakes, and… Read more

Trucking News: Increasing truck size, weights: Its STILL a bad idea

safety1 — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 21:31:25 +0000

Some people just never learn especially when it comes to truckings big business.

Once again, the American Trucking Associations and its cohorts… Read more

Trucking News: LCVs and aging infrastructure

safety1 — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 21:31:18 +0000

Freight movement wouldnt be where it is today without the Interstate Highway System, and vice versa. And as the systems roads, ramps and bridges… Read more

Trucking News: Drug testing operator admits lying over truck driver’s tests

safety1 — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 21:31:14 +0000

A drug testing company operator has admitted to lying about whether commercial truck drivers working for client motor carriers had passed drug tests…. Read more

Trucking News: Schneider Driver Takes His Own Life

safety1 — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 04:31:12 +0000

Breaking News From Land Line Magazine

We’ve learned that the name of the trucker who took his own life after a stand-off near St. Louis today was… Read more

Trucking News: Trucking-related companies make PIRGs Dirty Thirty list

safety1 — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 20:31:23 +0000

A national consumer advocacy group has published its Dirty Thirty list of companies that received more money in tax breaks than they paid in… Read more

Trucking News: Trucker Guilty Of Shooting Rival

safety1 — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 20:31:19 +0000

Old Castle Coastal has an opening to deliver their products now. Two openings as a matter of fact…

Trucker Guilty of Shooting Business Rival |… Read more

Trucking News: DOT tries for 30-day extension on OOIDA cease-and-desist motion; gets 15

safety1 — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 20:31:17 +0000

The rapid-fire pace of the actions following OOIDAs motion seeking a cease-and-desist order on FMCSAs electronic on-board recorder policies and… Read more

Trucking News: FMCSA triple slaps Double Happyness buses, obtains restraining order

safety1 — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 20:31:13 +0000

Say what you will for Double Happyness Travel Inc.s inability to run within the law but this is certainly one company loaded with a never-say-die… Read more

Trucking News: Truckers urged to speak out against I-95 toll plan in North Carolina

safety1 — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 19:33:02 +0000

A heads up for truckers in North Carolina, the state DOT is proposing to rebuild Interstate 95 and use tolls to pay for it. The plan will cost… Read more