Categories: Drivers, Safety & Compliance

Despite sleep apnea’s devastating impact on highway safety and personal well-being, truck drivers can be easily and affordably treated for this common...

https://www.truckinginfo.com/156540/how-not-to-lose-sleep-over-apnea

Categories: Drivers, Fleet Management, Safety & Compliance

Volvo’s Lars Stenqvist sees the potential for a chicken-or-egg dynamic slowing down how quickly smart trucks and smart highways can be integrated to...

https://www.truckinginfo.com/142277/gauging-the-tech-that-will-drive-the-future-of-trucking

Categories: Drivers, Equipment, Safety & Compliance

It will take rewriting a sheaf of regulations and presenting a compelling business case on safety and fuel-economy gains to fleet operators before a Level 3...

https://www.truckinginfo.com/131458/freightliner-maps-long-road-ahead-for-autonomous-truck-technology

Categories: Drivers, Fleet Management, Safety & Compliance

A report on the first year’s activities of the public-private National Coalition on Truck Parking presents suggestions from trucking stakeholders from...

https://www.truckinginfo.com/141201/dot-report-rounds-up-truck-parking-solutions

Categories: Drivers, Fleet Management, Safety & Compliance

The Truck Parking Safety Improvement Act, if passed into law, would dedicate hundreds of millions of dollars to projects that increase truck parking spaces...

https://www.truckinginfo.com/352754/bipartisan-truck-parking-bill-introduced-in-house

Categories: Drivers, Fleet Management, Safety & Compliance

The American Transportation Research Institute on April 15 launched an online survey of truck drivers on issues related to sleep apnea

https://www.truckinginfo.com/134648/trucker-sleep-apnea-study-launched-by-atri

Categories: Drivers, Operations

The U.S. Department of Labor now holds that truck drivers need not be compensated for any time in which "drivers are relieved of all duties and permitted to...

https://www.worktruckonline.com/337033/dol-no-need-to-pay-truck-drivers-for-off-duty-time-in-sleeper-berth

Categories: Drivers, Fleet Management, Safety & Compliance

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration has extended the public-comment period on the impact a sleep-apnea rule might have on CMV drivers.

https://www.truckinginfo.com/135439/fmcsa-extends-sleep-apnea-comment-deadline

Categories: Drivers, Electronic Logging Devices (ELDs), Fleet Management, Safety & Compliance, Telematics

Not just the illegally unprepared may feel the shock starting April 1, when full enforcement of the electronic logging device rule kicks in. That’s because...

https://www.automotive-fleet.com/279396/impact-of-full-eld-enforcement-a-firehose-of-violations

Categories: Drivers, Fleet Management, Safety & Compliance

The 34-hour restart provisions for truck drivers, which currently remain under suspension, had a negative impact on motor-carrier safety when they were in...

https://www.truckinginfo.com/129226/atri-restart-rule-unintentionally-raised-crash-risk