Categories: Safety, Safety & Compliance

Recommendations have been issued on how to help prevent vertical-clearance “bridge hits,” like the one by a truck that caused the Skagit River bridge...

https://www.truckinginfo.com/341720/industry-group-recommends-how-to-better-prevent-bridge-hits

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Categories: Fuel Smarts, Green Fleet, Operations, Vehicle Research

Within just 20 years, the world's biggest truck maker wants to offer only CO2-neutral trucks in the U.S. and elsewhere.

https://www.greenfleetmagazine.com/343243/daimler-aims-to-offer-only-co2-neutral-trucks-by-2039-in-key-markets

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Categories: Fleet Management, Operations, Safety & Compliance

The U.S. Department of Transportation has announced that Deputy Secretary Jeffrey Rosen will serve as DOT’s Regulatory Reform Officer and chairman of the...

https://www.worktruckonline.com/140664/dot-formalizes-regulatory-reform-effort

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Categories: Fleet Management, Operations

The Dept. of Transportation announced on Oct. 6 the “immediate availability” of $5 million in emergency relief funds from the Federal Highway Administration...

https://www.worktruckonline.com/131822/dot-issues-5-million-in-emergency-relief-for-south-carolina-roads

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Categories: Fleet Management, Operations

By declining to hear a review of J.B. Hunt's appeal to overturn a lower court ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court has allowed a class action lawsuit filed by...

https://www.worktruckonline.com/304314/supreme-court-nixes-j-b-hunt-appeal-on-driver-break-lawsuit

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Categories: Electronic Logging Devices (ELDs), Telematics

When it comes to managing electronic logging devices in the back office, “Obviously, the big thing is to monitor for violations,” according to Annette...

https://www.truckinginfo.com/312205/eld-lessons-learned-so-far-part-three-back-office

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Categories: Equipment, Fuel Smarts, Green Fleet, Operations

Seemingly acting out of character, the Environmental Protection Agency on Nov. 13 announced it will launch a rulemaking to further cut the emission of...

https://www.worktruckonline.com/319276/pa-aiming-to-cut-nox-emissions-from-heavy-duty-trucks

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Categories: Drivers, Fleet Management, Safety & Accident, Safety & Compliance

The Department of Transportation plans to add four prescription opioids – hydrocodone, hydromorphone, oxymorphone and oxycodone – to the existing DOT...

https://www.automotive-fleet.com/142991/dot-changing-drug-testing-to-address-opioid-abuse-epidemic

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Categories: Electric, Electric Vehicles, Equipment, Green Fleet

The OEM revealed a prototype for a battery-electric drive version of its International MV medium-duty truck, dubbed the eMV, which is slated to come to...

https://www.greenfleetmagazine.com/343408/navistar-unwraps-electric-truck

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Categories: Fleet Management, Safety, Safety & Compliance

Cathy Gautreaux, deputy administrator of the Federal Motor Carrier Administration, is one of nine Department of Transportation officials who are either...

https://www.automotive-fleet.com/322604/musical-chairs-at-dot-sees-fmcsas-gatreaux-headed-to-nhtsa

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