Posts belonging to Category Department of Transportation
Posted by Jason Cox on October 28, 2009
When I started driving a truck, you drove for ten hours and you rested for eight hours. What was wrong with that? Of course, I was a local driver at the time, so maybe it wasn’t good for an OTR driver, I don’t know.
Then I decided to go OTR, and they decided to change the HOS rules. [...]
Categories: Department of Transportation, Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration | Tags: car 24, Day, driver, eleven hours, HOS, MY INDUSTRY, OTR, otr driver, rule, safety advocate, traffic fatalities, United States | 3 Comments »
Posted by Jason Cox on October 23, 2009
As if we didn’t already have enough regulations working against Truck Drivers today. CSA 2010 is going to change the way company’s hire drivers. You, the driver are going to play a BIG part in this new program. You, won’t be able to just go down the road as a company driver without having to worry if YOUR truck [...]
Categories: Department of Transportation, Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration | Tags: alcohol, carrier, CSA, driver, driving fatigue, federal motor carrier, Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, motor carrier safety, motor carrier safety administration, safety | 4 Comments »
Inspections Aimed at Unsafe Trucks
Posted by Jason Cox on May 28, 2009
Surprise truck inspections conducted by the State Patrol are aimed at keeping us all safe on Nebraska roads.
The inspections took place at four locations on the south edge of the metro — at Highway 50 and Platteview Road, Highway 370 at Sapp Brothers, Highway ᐲ at 42nd Street and at 117th and Harrison Street.
Patrolman Jeromey Radford was [...]
Categories: Department of Transportation, truck driver Industry | Tags: Jeromey Radford, Nebraska | No Comments »
ATA Supports National Drug & Alcohol Clearinghouse Bill
Posted by Jason Cox on May 21, 2009
The American Trucking Associations (ATA) supports the Safe Roads Act, S.1113, introduced this week by Sen. Mark Pryor, D-Ark. The bipartisan bill would create a U.S. Department of Transportation National Drug Clearinghouse database to store commercial motor vehicle operators’ positive drug and alcohol tests results and records of refusals to take the tests.
“ATA is very pleased that [...]
Categories: Department of Transportation, Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, Thoughts from a trucker, truck driver Industry | Tags: American Trucking Associations, ATA, Ben Nelson, Committee on Commerce, Dave Osiecki, Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, Maine, National Drug & Alcohol Clearinghouse, Olympia Snowe, Sen. Mark Pryor, Sen. Roger Wicker, U.S. Department of Transportation National Drug Clearinghouse | No Comments »
Posted by Jason Cox on May 19, 2009
NEW HAVEN, Conn. — More than 70 trucks were issued citations Tuesday morning during the first two hours of an investigation into commercial truck violations, New Haven police said.
The Connecticut State Police Truck Squad and New Have Police Department’s Traffic Enforcement Unit conducted the joint inspection beginning at 7:30 a.m. at the intersection of Water and East [...]
Categories: Department of Transportation, Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, truck driver Industry | Tags: Conn., Connecticut State Police, New Haven, Traffic Enforcement Unit | 4 Comments »
Posted by Jason Cox on May 19, 2009
You have less than two weeks until Homeland Security changes the way it allows you to re-enter into the U.S. from Canada. Starting June 1, New York state residences will need either a state Enhanced Driver License (EDL) or a passport to come back into the United States.
Erie County Clerk Kathy Hochul says the EDL [...]
Categories: Department of Transportation, Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, Political News, cross border trucking plan, truck driver Industry | Tags: Albany, Bermuda, Canada, Department of Motor Vehicle, DOS, EDL., Erie County, Government, Government of Canada, Kathy Hochul, New York, NEXUS, SENTRI, U.S. Government, United Kingdom, United States, United States Department of Homeland Security | No Comments »
UPDATED: Virginia Troopers Forcing Truckers To Violate HOS Reg’s
Posted by Jason Cox on May 16, 2009
Frederick (SilverSurfer_TX) Schaffner and his brother JB, have been working on this vigorously for several months now. I must say, they are probably well known by the VDOT by now. SilverSurfer_TX as many know from Twitter, first broke this story a few months ago. It appears that Virginia State Troopers were/are going into the rest areas [...]
Categories: Boycott Virginia, Department of Transportation, Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, Thoughts from a trucker, truck driver Industry | Tags: Allen, Chief Council Office, JB, Mr. Jack Kostelnik, Mr. Yeager, Twitter, Virginia | 10 Comments »
Ohio bill on uniform speeds, transportation budget
Posted by Jason Cox on April 1, 2009
A conference committee made up of select members of the Ohio House and Senate reached a deal Monday, March 30, on a two-year, $9.6 billion transportation budget. For truckers, the most notable provision in the bill would do away with split speed limits on interstates.
The breakthrough in policy in Ohio was welcome news for officials with [...]
Categories: Department of Transportation, Political News, Thoughts from a trucker, truck driver Industry | Tags: 10 mph below the 65 mph limit, Currently large vehicles are required to travel 55 mph, do away with split speed limits on interstates, interstates could drive 65 mph | 2 Comments »