* Arkansas - Truck lobbying group backs call for FMCSA overhaul
-- Shannon Newton, president of the Arkansas lobbying group, said that while FMCSA has a tough mission before it, the problem is that the agency is trying to do so much and its resources are so thin that “ … they’re not really doing anything to the degree or to the level that it should be done” ... Responding to Rep. Deb Fischer’s declaration during a Senate hearing last week that she will introduce a bill to overhaul FMCSA, the Arkansas Trucking Association responded that regulatory ‘overreach’ is hurting the trucking industry... In a hearing March 4 before the Senate Commerce Subcommittee on Surface Transportation and Merchant Marine Infrastructure, Safety and Security, the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) was criticized by Fischer, R.-Neb., who raked the regulatory agency over the coals, saying "it continues to calculate inaccurate CSA stores and make them public despite “the fact that no correlation exists between those scores and any improvement of safety” ... FMCSA was also chastised by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) last week in hearings for its CSA program...
(Photo, by William Harvey: The President of the Arkansas Trucking Association: Shannon Newton) - Little Rock, ARK, USA - The Arkansas Democrat Gazette / The Trucker News Services -10 March 2015
* Florida - Kari Rihm, Kenworth dealer, wins Influential Woman in Trucking Award
-- Kari Rihm, president of the Minnesota-based Rihm Kenworth, won the Influential Woman in Trucking award presented by the Women in Trucking Association and Navistar... She has grown the dealership from three to five locations since taking over in 2010, when her husband died. Rihm took over a dealership that was in its third generation of family ownership, and she has now been joined by her two children in the business...
The employee count has risen by 50% at the company, which is the only 100% woman-owned Kenworth dealer in the United States, according to the announcement from Women in Trucking...
Kissimmee, FLA, USA -Transport Topics - 10 March 2015Labels: womens in trucking
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