In July, the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration issued an Advanced Notice of Proposed Rulemaking seeking comments on a possible proposal to allow motor carriers to maintain electronic copies of hazardous materials shipping documents. It’s an effort to…

The Bipartisan Infrastructure Law authorized $5 Billion over the next 5 years for States to deploy 500,000 charging stations as part of an interconnected network charging EV infrastructure. The funding is for vehicle charging projects and for charging infrastructure…

Our parents insisted we were lazy. Their parents thought they were lazy. Now, many of us are looking at our millennial children and making the same claim. If only they were more like us, they’d be more successful. If…

The Office of the Inspector General for DOT, estimates that 15-minute increase in average dwell time—the time spent by a truck at a facility—increases the average crash rate by 6.2%

FMCSA has revamped its DataQs website including an updated homepage and revamped submission tools and a new mobile friendly design.

The largest contributing factors to nuclear verdicts usually resolve around safety statistics, lack of hiring and training documentation, and a lack of solid technology-related defenses. These verdicts can be detrimental to carriers and their insurance rates.   The attached article…

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, for the first time in seven years, recently published guidelines for medical examiners to use in establishing truck driver fitness to operate their vehicles.  Will these guidelines serve as a launchpad for a…

As the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration prepares to launch its new Safe Driver Apprenticeship Program for drivers under 21 years of age, STC Co-Director, Steve Keppler, discusses the program’s merits impacts on safety and driver recruitment.  Read the…