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TRUCKING INDUSTRY * Canada & USA
* Report: Shows truckers at New York Container Terminal paying 144% above national average
New York,NY,USA -Fleet Owner, by Deborah Whistler -Sep. 21, 2012: -- A Port Authority study shows that truckers using the New York Container Terminal pay on average $40.25 more in tolls than haulers going to New Jersey terminals, according to Assembly woman, Nicole Malliotakis (R-East Shore/Brooklyn)... Malliotakis said in a Staten Island Advance report that an average 20-mi. trip costs $83.34, which is 144% above the national average... Malliotakis is in a court battle with the Port Authority to release its study on the economic impact of bridge tolls on truckers...
* Ontario / Canada - Cost of ground transportation for Canadian shippers drops in July
* Texas - Con-way Multimodal moves headquarters to Dallas
* USA / Virginia - ATA report: Truck tonnage falls in August
* USA / DC - NAFTA Surface Trade Rose 4.6% in July
* USA / DC - Trucking On-Job Deaths Rise 14%, Labor Dept. Says
Washington,DC,USA -Transport Topics -25 Sept 2012: -- Trucking was one of the most dangerous industries for workers last year, when 474 workers died on the job, a 13.9% increase over the previous year, the Labor Department said in a preliminary report... General freight trucking accounted for 295 workplace deaths — 16.1% higher than 2010. The remaining 156 were in specialized trucking, a 12.2% jump from 2010, Labor said... For trucking, the figure represented “the second consecutive year that counts have risen in this sector after reaching a series low in 2009,” the department’s Bureau of Labor Statistics said in a statement...
* DC / USA - Getting a CDL will soon be easier for military personnel
Washington,DC,USA -Land Line, by David Tanner -28 Sept 2012: -- Military personnel will soon be able to obtain commercial drivers licenses in states where they are stationed instead of being required to go through their home states of record... President Obama is expected to sign the Military CDL Act of 2012 into law... Current laws prohibit states from issuing CDLs to individuals who are not domiciled there. Language in the bill says the change will make getting a CDL easier for active duty military, military reserves, National Guard, active Coast Guard and Coast Guard Auxiliary...
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* Minnesota / USA - CVSA agrees to rescind current fatigue out-of-service standard
Saint Paul,MIN,USA -Land Line, by Sandi Soendker -28 Oct 2012: -- One week following a court hearing that considered whether or not the Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance and the Minnesota State Patrol should be held in contempt of court for CVSA’s adoption of a legal standard that differed from last year’s court order – CVSA filed a new letter with the court in which it describes that its executive committee has decided to immediately repeal that legal standard... In June, OOIDA filed a motion in the U.S. District Court for the state of Minnesota asking the court to compel the Minnesota State Patrol and CVSA to show why the two groups aren’t in contempt of court by ignoring the court’s order and adopting out-of-service criteria based on the lower legal threshold of suspicion and not probable cause... In the Sept. 27 letter filed with the court, CVSA Executive Director, Stephen Keppler, wrote that the change voted on by CVSA will return the fatigue criterion to read as it did at the time Judge Frank issued his decision. The letter does not describe CVSA’s process to implement these changes...
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* Iowa - ‘World’s Largest Truckstop’ to grow even larger
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