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Trucking continues
to be major employer

The trucking industry continues to be a major employer in the United States with 8.9 million people in trucking-related jobs in 2007, according to an American Trucking Associations (ATA) report...

FMCSA issues new
carrier safety audit rule

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) has issued a final rule that addresses new carrier safety requirements and makes a carrier's failure to comply with any one of the 16 regulations an automatic failure of the safety audit, according to information published in the Federal Register December 16...

NACS argues against ATC in California

A staff report by the California Energy Commission (CEC) has concluded that that implementation of automatic temperature compensation (ATC) in California would increase overall costs to consumers, according to information from the National Association of Convenience Stores (NACS)...

CARB survey shows elevated cancer risk in Teamsters

A survey of 31,135 men who were members of the Teamsters Union indicated that trucking industry workers showed an elevated risk of lung cancer with increasing years of work, according to information from the California Air Resources Board (CARB)...

Freight Index
rises in October

The Freight Transportation Services Index (TSI) rose 1.0 percent in October from its September level, rising after two consecutive monthly declines, the Department of Transportation’s Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) reported...

Christmas Eve dinner
set for working truckers

Volvo Trucks North America is saluting truck drivers who work Christmas Eve by providing a free holiday dinner at participating Flying J travel plazas in the United States and Canada...

ATA supports
pension relief bill

The American Trucking Associations (ATA) said it is applauding the Senate’s passage of a pension relief bill that ATA believes will help ease the financial strain on American businesses due to the lagging economy and current volatility in the financial markets...

CTA stressing weight issues for enviroTruck initiative

The Canadian Trucking Alliance is stressing the importance for all Canadian provincial governments to act swiftly on regulations that would allow weight and length considerations for key components of CTA’s enviroTruck initiative...

NEFI applauds new
SPCC tank truck ruling

The New England Fuel Institute (NEFI) is applauding the recent decision by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) that removes parked cargo tank trucks containing product from SPCC-sized secondary containment requirements, according to information in NEFI's weekly e-newsletter, NEON...

Whittington honored
for industry commitment

Charles “Shorty” Whittington (left), president and chief executive officer of Grammer Industries Inc of Grammer IN, has been honored by the Upper Great Plains Transportation Institute with its first-ever Agricultural Transportation Leadership Award. Presenting the award was Gene Griffin, director of the institute...