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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...
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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...
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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...
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Did You Know?
Did You Know? The Availability of Self-certified ELDs is Sky-High, Despite Recent Revocation.
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.
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Did You Know? The Soft Freight Market Has Big Impacts
According to FMCSA registration data, the industry lost 8,018 for-hire motor carriers between December 2022 and April 2023.
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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...
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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...
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In the News
STC In the News: TTT Podcast Covers Dashcams and What's Not Being Discussed
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....
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STC In the News: TTT Podcast Investigates Adult Education Strategies for Effective Driver Training
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...
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