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...
Nov 28, 2023
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...
Nov 28, 2023
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...
Oct 24, 2023
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...
Oct 24, 2023
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...
Oct 24, 2023
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...
Oct 24, 2023
According to an analysis of Bureau of Labor Statistics data conducted by the American Transportation Research Institute, in 2023, 41.4% of truck drivers live in states where recreational marijuana use is legal, up from 18.5% in 2019. Perhaps more concerning, ATRI also...
Sep 28, 2023
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)....
Sep 28, 2023
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...
