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Someone needs to read the article that was published about the truck driver shot and killed in Knoxville, Tenn.
April 6, 2009Daily Briefings from Transport Topics
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Reopening the Border
We’re pleased to see that President Obama’s administration is at work crafting a plan to reopen the United States to trucks from Mexico, as agreed to years ago when the North American Free Trade Agreement was ratified.
April 6, 2009Coast Guard to Review Biometric Devices in Bid to Make TWIC Cards More Secure
The U.S. Coast Guard is beginning to review how biometric devices should be added to federal transport security cards that are becoming mandatory for truckers and everyone else who wants access to secure port areas.
April 6, 2009FedEx Wins Wash. State Class Action Suit over Classification of Drivers as Contractors
FedEx Corp. last week won a Washington state class action case that affirmed the company’s position on driver classification.
April 6, 2009After Chasing Criminals in Arizona, Dick Landis Came East to Tame Newly Deregulated Industry
PHOENIX — As an Arizona highway patrol officer for 14 years in the 1970s and ’80s, Dick Landis chased illegal immigrants, drunken college students, speeding motorists and even hardened drug dealers up and down just about every strip of concrete slicing through the state’s scalding, lonely desert.
April 6, 2009Accounting Boards Propose Rules Change That Could Alter Truck Leasing Industry
An accounting rules shift could trigger fundamental changes in a truck leasing market worth as much as $70 billion by reducing the attractiveness of renting equipment and reducing fleets’ access to debt.
April 6, 2009Bill Aims to Cut Emissions with Cap-and-Trade Plan
Two senior House Democratic leaders last week introduced a sweeping greenhouse gas bill that includes a cap-and-trade program and would expand motor carriers’ use of SmartWay technologies.
April 6, 2009Budget Panels Reject Obama Proposal, Retain Highway Trust Fund Firewall
Budget committees in Congress have approved draft versions of spending-revenue plans for next year that reject an Obama administration proposal to remove the firewalls that have traditionally protected the Highway Trust Fund and other transportation-related funds.
April 6, 2009U.S. Seeks Consensus on Border Before Obama’s Visit to Mexico
The Department of Transportation will develop a proposal to reopen the United States to trucks from Mexico before President Obama visits President Felipe Calderon there later this month, a spokeswoman told Transport Topics.
April 6, 2009Jury Finds Freight Broker Liable for $23.8 Million Fatality Award
An Illinois jury has awarded $23.8 million in damages against leading freight broker C.H. Robinson Worldwide in a dual-fatality 2004 truck accident case involving a motor carrier hired to haul a load of potatoes.
April 6, 2009