Safety
Medium-Duty Sales Notch Year-Over-Year Increase in November
2022 Ford F-650 and F-750 trucks. (Ford Motor Co.)
Classes 4-7 U.S. retail sales in November surpassed 18,000 and jumped nearly 10% compared with a year earlier as only Class 7 failed to post a year-over-year gain, WardsAuto.com reported.
December 15, 2020Texas Truckers Fight Inflated Medical Costs in Litigation
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Trucking officials and tort reform advocates in Texas have introduced legislation seeking to end schemes between plaintiff attorneys and doctors under which medical costs related to truck accidents are overstated in court litigation.
December 15, 2020Crunch Time for COVID-19 Relief as Bipartisan Bills Unveiled
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WASHINGTON — A bipartisan group of lawmakers was unveiling a detailed COVID-19 aid proposal Dec. 14 as Congress labored toward a final agreement on a new round of virus relief.
December 14, 2020Virginia Board Approves Six-Year Improvement Program for Transportation
Traffic on I-81 in Virginia. The route will have truck climbing routes installed in certain areas per the plan. (Virginia Department of Transportation)
The Commonwealth Transportation Board recently approved Virginia’s transportation improvement program, which aims to advance projects on schedule despite the financial ramifications of COVID-19.
December 14, 2020DTNA Says Portland Plant Will Be First to Achieve Carbon-Neutral Production
DTNA's truck manufacturing plant in Portland, Ore. The plant reduced its energy consumption from vehicle manufacturing with equipment replacement and facility upgrades. (Daimler Trucks North America)
Daimler Trucks North America announced its truck manufacturing plant in Portland, Ore., will be the first to achieve carbon-neutral production in the global Daimler Trucks network — meeting green production this year.
December 14, 2020FMCSA Plans Information Collection for CDL Testing Delays Survey
A Truck Training America student drives through the Kentucky State Police CDL test track and road course. (John Sommers II for Transport Topics)
The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration is planning to submit an Information Collection Request associated with its annual survey on commercial driver license skills testing delays.
December 11, 2020House Lawmaker Introduces Rural Infrastructure Bill
A rural road in need of repair in Michigan. (Michigan Farm Bureau)
Legislation meant to assist rural transportation corridors was introduced by Rep. Carol Miller this month.
December 11, 2020Indiana Awards $101 Million for Local Roads, Bridges
A rural road in Indiana. State law requires that 50% of the available matching funds annually be awarded to communities within counties that have populations of 50,000 people or fewer. (David Arment/Getty Images)
The Indiana Department of Transportation and Gov. Eric Holcomb announced that local government agencies have received a combined $101 million in state matching funds to support road and bridge projects.
December 10, 2020US Trucking, Logistics Sectors Ready to Mobilize for Vaccine Distribution
A medical worker draws the COVID-19 vaccine from a vial at a vaccination center in Cardiff, U.K. (Ben Birchall/PA Wire/Bloomberg News)
For the trucking and logistics industry, the challenges of COVID-19 vaccine distribution are just beginning. Hundreds of millions of doses will need to be shipped around the world and in the United States, and the process is just now getting underway.
December 10, 2020US Experts Convene to Decide on Go-Ahead for Pfizer Vaccine
A phial of the Phizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine is seen at the Royal Victoria Hospital in Belfast on Dec. 8. (Liam McBurney/Pool via AP)
A U.S. government advisory panel convened Dec. 10 to decide whether to endorse mass use of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine to help conquer the outbreak that has killed close to 300,000 Americans.
December 10, 2020