May 25, 2023
In its latest TrueNorth Truck Thought podcast, the STC team along with TrueNorth and crash litigation attorney and Partner at Scopelitis, Garvin, Light, Hanson & Fear, P.C. talk about Dashcams. This interesting conversation takes a deep dive into a popular topic,...
May 25, 2023
As a part of President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal in 1933, each industry sector was asked to create a “code of fair competition.” The trucking industry did its part to establish its code, and in 1935, congress passed the Motor Carrier Act, which adopted the code...
May 25, 2023
FMCSA first proposed a speed limiter mandate in 2016. Seven years and six FMCSA administrators later, there’s been no resolution. What’s happened since 2016, and what direction do we think FMCSA will take? The short answer to the first part of the question is simple: ...
May 25, 2023
Earlier this month, the Office of the Secretary of Transportation issued a final rule allowing motor carriers to adopt oral fluid testing for all DOT-required testing types. During the proposal stage, some, including STC, had initially criticized the proposal pointing...
May 25, 2023
According to FMCSA registration data, the industry lost 8,018 for-hire motor carriers between December 2022 and April 2023.
May 25, 2023
The recently released Bureau of Labor Statistics’ Freight Analysis Framework estimates that in 2021 the most popular freight lane as measured by tons transported was Texas to Louisiana. The second most popular? Louisiana to...
May 25, 2023
FMCSA has their hands full policing the 488 companies offering a total of 818 different devices on the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration’s list of self-certified electronic logging devices.
May 17, 2023
The final rule amends the Department of Transportation’s industry drug testing program to allow oral fluid testing for all required DOT tests, but the Department of Health and Human Services needs to certify at least two testing laboratories before motor...
Apr 27, 2023
In its latest TrueNorth Truck Thought podcast, the STC team along with TrueNorth and adult education expert Dr. Gina Anderson, CEO and Founder of Luma Brighter Learning talk about how adults learn and how to implement effective driver training in the trucking...
Apr 26, 2023
The truck and bus industries have come a long way on safety. According to FMCSA’s Large Truck and Bus Crash Facts reports, in 1979, the fatal crash rate among these carriers was 0.393 fatal crashes per 100 million miles traveled. In 2020, that number was 0.158, a...
