* DC - Evaluating the potential safety benefits of Electronic Hours-of-Service Recorders
Washington,DC,USA -Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration/Federal Register -12 May 2014: -- The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) announces the availability of a new final report, “Evaluating the Potential Safety Benefits of Electronic Hours-of-Service Recorders”... The study quantitatively evaluated whether trucks equipped with Electronic Hours-of-Service Recorders (EHSRs) have a lower (or higher) crash and hours-of-service (HOS) violation rate than those without EHSRs. The safety benefits of EHSRs were quantitatively evaluated by comparing the crash risk for two exposure groups (i.e., EHSRs were considered to improve safety if the trucks with EHSRs showed a lower crash risk than trucks without EHSRs). For this project, EHSRs were defined as any device that electronically records drivers' HOS. The study is an effort to further quantify the safety benefits of electronic logging devices (ELDs) and provides results that are consistent with the Agency's estimates of safety benefits of an ELD mandate, as proposed on March 28, 2014. A copy of the report has been placed in the docket referenced at the beginning of this notice...
* California - CARB regs cost truckers $2.2 Million in fines
Sacramento,CAL,USA -Today´s Trucking -May 12, 2014: -- The California Air Resources Board (CARB) announced it settled 256 cases last year involving air quality violations by heavy-duty diesel truck and bus fleets that failed to comply with its various air quality programs... The violations cost truck and bus fleets a total of $2.2 million... The companies paying the highest amounts were:
- Thermo King Corporation - $213,200
- California Gas Transport - $136,125
- GC Harvesting - $120,000
- KS Industries - $230,250
- Roly’s Trucking - $58,000
- White Arrow- $50,700
- THX Transport - $50,000
There were 40 other companies involved in other settlements... The remaining 209 cases that were individually settled below $10,000 had a total of $449,838 in penalties...
* Virginia - Trucking holds as dominant freight mode, ATA Trends report says
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Arlington,VA,USA -Transport Topics -12 May 2014: -- Trucking remains the dominant U.S. mode of freight transportation, hauling 69.1% of freight last year totaling 9.7 billion tons, with both figures up from a year earlier, American Trucking Associations reported May 12... Trucking’s percentage was up from 2012’s total of 68.7%, and tonnage rose from 9.4 billion tons a year earlier, according to ATA’s latest “American Trucking Trends” ... The trucking industry collected 81.2% of total U.S. freight revenue last year, up from 80.7% in 2012, ATA said.
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