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Since the regulation was implemented in 2003, the percentage of large trucks involved in fatigue-related fatal crashes in the eleventh hour of driving has remained below the average of the 1991-2002 yearly rates.
Read More →WASHINGTON – Private and for-hire truck fleets are covered by a rule issued by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA).
Read More →WASHINGTON – The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) has improved its oversight and compliance reviews of high-risk carriers, but work remains to be done.
Read More →WASHINGTON, D.C. – A single truck crash in the U.S. costs nearly $100,000. The bill for longer tractor-trailer accidents, however, costs significantly more, according to a new study commissioned by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA).
Read More →The bill for longer tractor-trailer accidents is significantly more than $100,000, a recent FMCSA study shows.
Read More →WASHINGTON, D.C. – A coalition of groups led by Public Citizen the Teamsters Union have filed suit against the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration to block the federal government's plan to allow a pilot program of Mexican trucks into the United States.
Read More →ALEXANDRIA, VA – In a letter to the Federal Motor Carrier Administration (FMCSA) and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), the Trucking, Renting, and Leasing Association (TRALA) urged support for a petition from the American Trucking Associations (ATA) asking the agencies to consider the new safety-oriented rule requires 68 mph speed limiters on new trucks.
Read More →WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. federal trucking regulators are interested in new lane departure warning technology as a way to mitigate the rate of off-road accidents and rollovers on North American highways.
Read More →Lane Departure Warning Systems (LDWS) can reduce occurrences of veering off-road by 21 to 24 percent.
Read More →WASHINGTON, D.C. – At the four-day “Sorrow to Strength” conference, the Truck Safety Coalition ranked each U.S. state in terms of truck fatalities and issued a “report card” that graded the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) on 10 key truck safety issues.
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