FMCSA- The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration's Emergency Declaration, which grants exemptions from certain requirements in 49 CFR Part 395 (hours of service) for carriers of specific essential supplies, has been modified to include additional categories of fuel shipments.
Commercial Carriers Journal- The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration’s published notice of intent to mandate speed limiters on most heavy-duty trucks has been published in the Federal Register.
Aside from how speed limiters might impact driver pay and create supply chain inefficiencies, a common theme among many of the comments – the many of which thus far oppose mandated speed limiter use – is that passenger cars, frustrated by slower commercial trucks all governed to the same speed, would actually make the roads less safe.
Transport Topics- The Environmental Protection Agency is proposing its first new rules governing heavy-truck nitrogen oxide emissions in two decades, but engine manufacturers say the proposals would be difficult to meet and counterproductive because they could slow the move to cleaner technology.
Freight Waves- Setting minimum insurance requirements for trucking companies and brokers is the responsibility of the federal government, but a lack of data from insurers is keeping government regulators from figuring out how much current levels should be raised.
The information it needs to get a better handle on the adequacy of current levels of financial responsibility for accidents involving bodily injury and property damage is not available because many lawsuits stemming from such accidents are settled out of court, according to the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration.
Transport Topics- The Canadian government has pushed back full implementation of its electronic logging device mandate to Jan. 1, 2023. This is the second delay of the regulation that has been many years in the making. However, the reason behind each delay is quite different.
Commercial Carriers Journal- Since supply chain issues are hampering the production and delivery of new equipment, fleet managers are having to make tough decisions about which assets to keep.
Choosing which trucks to keep is more than the matter of truck age or mileage. You need to identify the trucks costing you the most to operate and separate them from those costing the least.
Transport Dive-For those smaller carriers looking to stay financially afloat amid the soaring prices, there are a variety of operational and technical mitigation strategies that could help.
Most small carriers have no choice but to pass along rising fuel costs to their customers, however, there are other steps small carriers can take to help offset costs.
Politico- The Biden administration is vowing to put more commercial truck drivers on the road to help ease the supply chain snarls plaguing the economy.
But one obstacle of the government’s own making is hampering that goal —
a federal ban on marijuana use that has sidelined tens of thousands of truckers.
Commercial Carriers Journal- As widespread availability of autonomous trucks increases, truck drivers will become more like IT professionals as their jobs shift more toward monitoring systems as a truck drives itself down the highway and curriculums change to meet those requirements.
