Did You Know? What Are The Barriers to Entry for Women Drivers?

Jan 23, 2024

In early January 2024, the American Transportation Research Institute (ATRI) launched a new survey to identify what both women and men truck drivers believe to be the barriers to entry for women truck drivers.  ATRI’s research will also capture other challenges that...

Absolutely Impossible? A.I. Begs to Differ

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...

Broken Trucks and Changing Definitions

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...

Transforming Transportation Aversion

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...

Plan B?

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...