STC In The News: Is FMCSA tipping its hand on carrier safety fitness?
In this January 12, 2024 article in Freightwaves, STC’s P. Sean Garney offered his opinion regarding the FMCSA publication of its “notice of data availability” (NODA), and what it may mean for motor carriers. Read or listen to the article...
read moreSTC In The News: TN Truck Thought Podcast Episode 15: Beyond Compliance – Truck Safety Is More Than Just Following Regulations
In Episode 15 of the Tripple T Podcast, STC’s P. Sean Garney and Steve Keppler discusses ways to incentivize investment in proven safety tools, technologies and programs among motor carriers and how an FMCSA’ sponsored Beyond Compliance Program could reduce crashes in...
read moreSTC In The News: Labor, climate costs loom large for trucking in 2024
In this article in FreightWaves, STC’s P. Sean Garney talks about the legislative and regulatory landscape in 2024. Read/listen to the full article...
read moreSTC In The News: Drilling Deep: Looking at 2024 regulatory landscape with Scopelitis
Host John Kingston talks about the strength of diesel prices relative to crude and as 2023 wraps up, STC’s P. Sean Garney discusses the 2024 regulatory landscape facing the trucking industry. Watch the video discussion...
read moreAbsolutely Impossible? A.I. Begs to Differ
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...
read moreBroken Trucks and Changing Definitions
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...
read moreTransforming Transportation Aversion
In case you missed it, the DOT’s Office of the Inspector General (OIG) released its DOT Top Management Challenges Report for FY2024 in early November. This annual review, required by law, looks at all the modal agencies at DOT to determine improvements that can be...
read moreDid You Know? America Agrees with Trucking; Intelligent Speed Assistance is Gaining Ground
Did You Know? - November 2023 In a recent survey of 2,000 Americans conducted by CloudTrucks and titled “How America Thinks and Talks Trucks,” respondents overwhelmingly said “truck drivers play a crucial role in the economy” (80%), and sympathize with truckers for...
read morePlan B?
Advocates for the Safe Driver Apprenticeship Program had a vision. The idea was to overcome objections to calls for FMCSA to lower the age at which truckers can begin operating in interstate commerce from 21 to 18. They would accomplish this by requiring FMCSA to...
read moreShow Me the Data!
After a 20-year hiatus, the U.S. DOT’s Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) conducted and, in late September 2023, published results from its new Vehicle Inventory and Use Survey (VIUS), much to the delight of truck and highway researchers across the land. If...
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