Transport Topics-Fuel prices overtook the driver shortage as the top issue of concern expressed by drivers and motor carriers in the American Transportation Research Institute’s 2022 Top Industry Issues survey, made public October 22.
Land Line-According to the U.S. Department of Transportation’s most recent Significant Rulemaking Report, FMCSA plans to publish a joint rulemaking with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration on automatic emergency braking systems in late January 2023.
Land Line-At a time when federal and state marijuana laws are being put under a microscope, the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration says any changes to regulations regarding its use are still a ways down the road.
Transport Topics- The Biden administration is moving toward a release of at least another 10 million to 15 million barrels of oil from the nation’s emergency stockpile in a bid to balance markets and keep gasoline prices from climbing further.
Transport Topics- Additional safety strategies for the nation’s mobility networks were recently announced by the U.S. Department of Transportation.
“The ‘Safe System Approach’ builds and reinforces multiple layers of protection to both prevent crashes from happening in the first place, and minimize the harm caused to those involved when crashes do occur.”
Transport Topics-A Detroit roadway where electric cars and trucks can recharge via a wireless device while traveling or parked is planned as part of a new venture between Michigan and Israeli company Electreon.
This development follows a February deal with Electreon to turn a one-mile section of road in Detroit’s Michigan Central District 14th Street and U.S. Route 12 (Michigan Avenue) into a wireless EV recharging road system.
FleetOwner- Safety doesn't happen by accident. Two experts looked at the fleets recognized as the safest by the Truckload Carriers Association to distill what best practices all of them have in common.
Transport Topics- In what is believed to be the first jury verdict related to Illinois’ strict biometrics privacy law, a $228 million judgment has been entered against BNSF Railway in a class-action lawsuit over the railroad’s collection of fingerprint data.
