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...

Within the Executive Branch lies an administrative bureaucracy charged with carrying out the priorities of the current Administration by developing new regulations or removing old ones. At the same time, they’re charged with keeping the wheels on the bus (pardon the...

California has a reputation for innovation. After all, Silicon Valley is where the first Apple computer was built and it was the University of California Los Angeles whose ARPANET project laid the ground work for todays internet (with a little help from Al Gore ;0)....

Detention time in the trucking industry is a longstanding issue – it consistently ranks as one of the top concerns of some professional drivers and has gotten the attention of the top leadership of the U.S. Department of Transportation, and, as a result, in August...

National Truck Driver Appreciation Week gets a lot of media coverage. Originally a creation of the American Trucking Associations, today we see billboards lining the interstates, newspaper editorials, social media engagement, and road team captains on the 6 o’clock...

By Christopher J. Eckhart, Partner at Scopelitis, Garvin, Light, Hanson & Feary, P.C. Earlier this month, the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) gave notice that it will consider petitions requesting a waiver of the FMCSA’s decisions preempting...

On June 27, 2023, the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration published a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) proposing amendments to the Hazardous Materials Regulations to require all railroads to generate, maintain, and share certain information...

Depending on your age, political bent, and other factors, the 1980s may represent a decade of decadence, big hair, neon, blockbuster movies, Reaganomics, and whether MTV (and TV in general) was rotting our brains. For trucking, the ‘80s were especially pivotal when...