Jan 23, 2024
Technology continues to accelerate and permeate almost every aspect of our lives. This statement most certainly holds true for those of us working in the transportation and trucking space as well, although usually at a less frenetic and generally more measured, pace....
Jan 23, 2024
In December 2023, the Federal Highway Administration notified State transportation departments that overhead electronic signs on highways with references to pop culture, or those intended to be funny (e.g., Drive Boozy and Your Ticket Could Be a Doozy), will be...
Jan 23, 2024
The USDOT has an annual Combating Human Trafficking in Transportation Impact Award to raise awareness among transportation stakeholders about human trafficking and to increase training and prevention to combat the crime. The award is a component of the USDOT’s...
Jan 23, 2024
In early January 2024, the American Transportation Research Institute (ATRI) launched a new survey to identify what both women and men truck drivers believe to be the barriers to entry for women truck drivers. ATRI’s research will also capture other challenges that...
Nov 28, 2023
In the year since ChatGPT launched, the AI discourse has gone in every possible direction. Creative types, for example, worry about the end of the publishing industry: if a simple prompt can generate a 500-page manuscript, why pay authors? Meanwhile trucking leaders...
Nov 28, 2023
Regulation 49 CFR §396.3(a) has been a long-standing problem for some in industry and enforcement – it states that carriers must have a program to “systematically inspect, repair, and maintain, or cause to be systematically inspected, repaired, and maintained, all...
