The American Transportation Research Institute is calling on truck drivers to provide information on what drives them to be owner-operators, independent contractors or company drivers. The research was identified by ATRI’s Research Advisory Committee as a top research priority in 2020. Drivers are asked to provide input through an online data collection form that will measure what […]
Werner Enterprises (CCJ Top 250, No. 11) has petitioned the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration for a waiver to allow commercial learner’s permit holders who have successfully passed the CDL skills test to essentially be able to drive in team operations. The request asks that the pre-CDL drivers be able to drive a truck without having […]
Given the growing concerns around a COVID-19 resurgence, FTR has decided to cancel its 2021 FTR Transportation Conference to ensure the continued health and safety of all those who had planned to be in attendance. This was to be the 17th annual conference and was originally scheduled for September 13-17 in Indianapolis. Registered attendees are being […]
The Federal Trade Commission has filed an administrative complaint against FleetCor and its CEO, Ronald Clarke, for charging customers “hundreds of millions of dollars in mystery fees associated with fuel cards.” FleetCor is the parent company for several fuel card service and payment solution providers. According to FTC, FleetCor, marketing under the “Fuelman” brand name and through […]
Walking the tightrope between cost-cutting and safety/operational efficiency is part of life as a fleet manager, but with the pandemic wreaking havoc on revenues through lost working days and supply chain disruptions, reducing operational costs has assumed critical significance. There are numerous overheads in this line of work. The most prominent ones that spring to […]
Two days after the California Trucking Association (CTA) filed its AB 5 case petition with the U.S. Supreme Court, truckers can’t be 100% confident the court will take up the association’s request. It was filed late in the day Monday, August 9, for reconsideration of the Ninth Circuit’s Spring ruling on California’s AB 5 contractor law. Speaking […]
The U.S. Senate on Tuesday passed its version of a $1 trillion infrastructure funding package that provides $550 billion in new monies. The passage of the bipartisan legislation, which was approved in a 69-30 vote Tuesday, follows weeks of debate in the Senate. The bill will now move to the U.S. House, where it could […]
Navistar will not be ordered to pay $30.8 million in damages to Tennessee-based Milan Express (CCJ Top 250, No. 159) after a ruling by the state’s high court upheld an appellate court’s decision to throw out a lower court’s ruling. In August 2017, Navistar was ordered to pay nearly $31 million to Milan, which had […]
It seems now like a lifetime ago, but I rarely worked from an office pre-COVID. I had one. I just never saw it. I was on the road just about every other week, and in between airports I had the benefit of working from home. The transition to remote work over the last year and […]
