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A look back down the road
This time last year, the trucking industry and its customers were just settling into compliance with a mandate from the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) that required electronic logging devices (ELDs) on commercial vehicles with a gross weight of over 10,000 pounds (4,500kg). In the months preceding the initial ...
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E-log mandate: Driving into new territory
Bob Poulos, chief executive of V3 Transportation, doesn’t need psychic powers to know what has been on the minds of his customers lately.As the calendar moves closer to the federal government’s compliance deadline for implementing electronic logging devices (ELDs), most of his expedited trucking firm’s customers – including many in ...
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Driver shortage the number one concern for road carriers in ATRI survey
The shortage of truck drivers in North America has climbed six places to come top of the list of concerns in a survey into critical issues facing the sector, conducted by the American Transportation Research Institute (ATRI). The results were released at this week’s 2017 American Trucking Association (ATA) Management ...