The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration has ordered E & K Trucking, based in Commerce City, Colo., to immediately cease its trucking operations...
US Transportation Regulations
18 Jun 2013
WASHINGTON — The trucking industry on Tuesday urged Congress to postpone the implementation of new hours of service rules
13 Jun 2013
The American Trucking Associations has applauded the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision today to reject two concession requirements in the Port of Los Angeles’ clean-trucks program.
13 Jun 2013
Thursday’s U.S. Supreme Court ruling rejecting two more concession requirements in the Port of Los Angeles clean-trucks program did not drive a stake into the heart of the port’s attempt to regulate harbor trucking, but it made the task of any port attempting to follow such a strategy more difficult.
13 Jun 2013
The U.S. Supreme Court Thursday struck down two more concession requirements in the Port of Los Angeles clean-trucks program, further weakening the ability of a port to regulate harbor trucking for environmental or other goals.
07 Jun 2013
After more than a decade of frustration and delays, the Coast Guard is pressing on with efforts to turn the much-maligned Transportation Worker Identification Credential into more than a pricey photo ID.
04 Jun 2013
The International Brotherhood of Teamsters has requested a rehearing on its challenge to the Department of Transportation’s cross-border trucking program between the U.S. and Mexico.
04 Jun 2013
The Federal Maritime Commission has published proposed rules that would represent the first substantive revision of regulations for forwarders and non-vessel-operating common carriers since the Ocean Shipping Reform Act of 1998.
03 Jun 2013
A Department of Transportation study on the ramifications of allowing heavier and bigger trucks won’t likely end the decades-long debate over the issue, but it could provide Congress with a more definitive roadmap.
31 May 2013
The New Jersey Senate gave final legislative approval to a bill creating a presumption that port and parcel delivery driv
30 May 2013
Ray LaHood, U.S. transportation secretary, has selected seven members to the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy’s advisory board.
30 May 2013
Changes to truck driver hours-of-service rules now just a month away will have little to no impact on Landstar System’s existing business, and may even bring the nation’s fourth-largest truckload carrier more freight, a top executive says.
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