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Senate committee clears six-year, $275 billion highway bill

The Senate’s Environment and Public Works Committee on Wednesday unanimously passed a six-year, $275 billion called the DRIVE Act.

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Transport America creates truck-specific weather alerting

The North Polar Vortex streamed south between December 2013 and April 2014, causing unusually cold weather in parts of Canada and the eastern United States.

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FMCSA wants to change CSA intervention thresholds, make hazmat category public

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration published June 29 proposed changes to its Compliance, Safety, Accountability safety program, including lowering some intervention thresholds

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Samsung’s ‘Clear’ Truck Aims to Make the Roads Safer

Samsung wants to leverage its technological expertise to make the roads a safer place.  It’s a situation most drivers have experienced plenty of times: You’re driving down a two-lane highway, stuck behind a slow-moving semi truck and unsure if it’s safe to drive in the opposite lane to pass the vehicle.

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Following court defeat, Walmart weighing next moves in trucker pay lawsuit

Walmart is considering its next steps in a class action suit where a federal judge concluded truckers must be paid at least minimum wage for all time worked

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Driver training rule update: Committee issues rec’s, rulemaking now in FMCSA’s hands

Following the final meeting of the Entry Level Driver Training Advisory Committee last month, formed to help regulators produce an entry-level driver training rule, the group released this week its final recommendation to the

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NTSB recommends collision avoidance systems on all new vehicles

The National Transportation Safety Board released a report Monday recommending collision avoidance systems become standard on all new commercial and passenger vehicles.

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C.R. England: Looming regulation changes, unnecessary red tape forced hand on driver training exemption

Some upcoming rule changes passed down from federal regulators to state CDL issuers prompted C.R. England’s recent issuance of an exemption to one driver training regulation, says C.R. England’s general  

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Canada Border Service Agency’s eManifest program now Mandatory: Free webinar July 8, 2015

As of May 6, 2015, changes to the CBSA’s eManifest initiative became mandatory for all modes of transportation. The U.S. Commercial Service is working in partnership with the CBSA to provide a webinar to highway carriers and freight forwarders to outline

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