Digital Asphalt

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...

Speeding Ahead

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: ...

Spit It Out

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...

Did You Know? The Most Popular Freight Lane of 2021 Was. . .

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...

STC In The News: DOT Issues Final Rule on Oral Fluid Drug Testing

  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...

Growing Pains; Family Ties

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...