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CSA2010 -The Next Step

By Jay Thomas

By now, all transportation executives and safety personnel have heard about the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration's (FMCSA) new safety initiative to improve commercial motor vehicle safety and ultimately reduce crashes, injuries and fatalities. Or at least you would think so, right?

According to an FMCSA report dated Sept. 22, only 2.6 percent of the 500,000 active carriers have gone online to view their safety scores under the new CSA2010 methodology.

International conference focuses on driver health and wellness

The Transportation Research Board of the National Academies, the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration and the U.S. Department of Transportation, in partnership with the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, recently sponsored an International Conference on Commercial Driver Health and Wellness. Held in Baltimore on Nov. 8-10, the conference served to highlight a topic of increasing importance that has been the focus of Driver HEALTH magazine and the Healthy Trucking Association of America for years.

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Trucking industry to 'rise from the ashes'

According to American Trucking Associations (ATA) President and CEO Bill Graves, the current state of the trucking industry is, like beauty, "in the eyes of the beholder."

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My Point: Time to become a carrier that cares

Marvin Shefsky
- Publisher

The world is changing, and that's especially true about the trucking industry. The economy has thrown us all for a loop the last few years. Driver turnover, while still bubbling away just below the surface, is not the 120-percent-plus annual monster it was in 2006. Rather than simply churning through the industry, changing jobs on a whim, tens of thousands of drivers have simply given up and vanished, unlikely to return.

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Drivers Sound Off

What's the best and worst part of your job?

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Senators introduce electronic logging bill

Senators Mark Pryor of Arkansas and Lamar Alexander of Tennessee introduced legislation (S.3884) that would require electronic logging devices in all commercial motor vehicles subject to both hours of service and record of duty status requirements. While the bill has the support of several large motor carriers, Congress is not expected to act on the legislation during the post-election lame duck session. If Congress does not act this year, the bill will need to be reintroduced when the next Congress convenes in January.

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