Laws & Regulations

After months of confusion for millions of truckers, the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) has finally offered up some extra clarification on how personal conveyance regulations should be followed and enforced.

The ATA stands behind the decision and is even pushing for stricter testing rules.

“Truck drivers in Joliet are learning quickly to plan their route ahead of time or else there will be consequences,” said one of the officers.

This year, nearly 5,000 commercial vehicles were placed out of service during the Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance's (CVSA) annual Brake Safety Week inspection campaign. 

A CDL driver says that technology saved his job after he was ticketed for driving 90 m.p.h. in a 70 m.p.h. zone.

A former Pilot Flying J executive convicted for defrauding truckers will be spending Christmas in a prison cell in spite of his request to spend the holiday with his family.

This week the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) slapped two large trucking companies with hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of fines for operating without diesel particulate filters.

Transportation officials in Sonoma County, California, are trying an innovative new tactic to keep truck traffic off of a one lane bridge.

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) is planning on gathering data and public comments on how commercial vehicle driver schedules impact driver fatigue and highway safety.

Virginia transportation officials are considering tolling drivers on I-81 to the tune of $2 billion in order to fund infrastructure improvements.

City officials in Fort Worth, Texas, have voted to increase the fees for illegal parking for both commercial and passenger vehicles.

Pilot Flying J's former president Mark Hazelwood has asked a judge to allow him to spend the holidays at home with his family before he reports to prison to serve his twelve and a half year sentence for scamming truck drivers out of millions of dollars.