Top medical advisers to the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration have recommended a slate of sleep apnea guidelines that would require truck drivers to participate in costly diagnostic sleep studies if they have a body mass index of 40 or higher, experienced excessive fatigue or sleepiness while driving or have been in a sleep-related accident.
August 29, 2016Safety
Editorial, Business, Safety, Government
Editorial: A Welcome Proposal
After 10 years of deliberation, two agencies of the Department of Transportation have finally published a proposal that would limit the maximum speed of the largest commercial vehicles to a rate yet to be determined.
September 5, 2016 Editorial, Business
Editorial: CDL or Bust
For the last week, our collective eyes here at Transport Topics have been fixated on a school outside Louisville, Kentucky.
August 29, 2016 Government, Safety, Business 
Thinkstock
Advisers Offer Sleep Apnea Guidelines as FMCSA Considers Health Proposal
Thinkstock Perspective, Business, Safety
Well-Documented Safety Programs Help Fleets
Documenting what you have done is a regular part of the trucking industry. At least it should be.
August 22, 2016 Business 
White by John Sommers II for TT
Wal-Mart’s White Captures National Truck Driving Championship
White by John Sommers II for TTINDIANAPOLIS — At a practice session about a week before veteran Wal-Mart Transportation driver Charles “Mike” White hopped into a 3-axle truck to negotiate the nerve-wracking National Truck Driving Championships “skills” course, fellow company driver and last year’s grand champ Ronald Emenheiser Sr. made a prediction.
August 22, 2016 Perspective, Business, Government, Safety, Autonomous
Opinion: First TMC Meeting Proved Unforgettable
As officers of American Trucking Associations, we are tasked with guiding the professional management of ATA and representing ATA at our federation partners’ meetings and industry events. In recent years, we also have assigned an officer as steward of ATA’s most prominent and important programs. For example, First Vice Chairman Kevin Burch has overseen our industry image movement, Trucking Moves America Forward, while Second Vice Chairman Dave Manning is our officer contact for LEAD ATA, our emerging leaders program. As part of this effort, I have the honor to be the officer serving as liaison to the ATA Technology & Maintenance Council, or TMC.
August 15, 2016 Editorial, Business, Government, Safety, Logistics, Autonomous
Editorial: One Champion, But Many Winners
By the time you read this, a new grand champion will have been crowned at the National Truck Driving Championships in Indianapolis.
August 15, 2016 Business, Equipment 
Michelin Americas Truck Tires
In Typical Roadside Tire Emergencies, It’s Often Tire Makers to the Rescue
Michelin Americas Truck TiresRoadside tire emergencies typically strike without warning, despite the best-laid preventive maintenance programs of fleet and maintenance managers.
August 15, 2016 Government
FMCSA Prompts Drivers to Look Out for Trucks
The country’s top truck safety agency is reminding motorists to check for blind spots and to distance their cars from commercial vehicles during their commutes as the busy summer traveling season wraps up.
August 15, 2016 Perspective, Business, Government, Safety
Opinion: Olympic Glory? We Prefer Glory in Safety
There’s a big, patriotic sporting event coming this summer. Contenders fly the flags of the places and people they represent and proudly wear uniforms to demonstrate their pride and allegiance. Fans, families and the media all fix their eyes on one storyline: “Who will emerge as the finest in their field and take home all the glory?”
August 8, 2016