Search | Truck Drivers Life | Social Network for Truck Drivers

MEGA MISTAKES

added blog Trucking News
2022-05-18 13:39:06 -

Fatal crashes involving big trucks rose 13% in 2021, according to feds
On Tuesday, the The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) released alarming traffic fatality data from 2021. According to the preliminary report released by NHTSA on May 17, overall traffic fatalities reached a 16 year high in 2021, with 42,915 people killed in crashes. This marks a 10.5% increase from the 38,824 traffic fatalities in 2020. “The projection is...

0 Comments 0 Shares 13K Views

Please log in to like, share and comment!
MEGA MISTAKES

added blog Trucking News
2022-06-25 13:59:06 -

Feds approve driverless, cabless truck for operation on U.S. roads
An autonomous vehicle technology company announced approval from federal transportation officials to begin testing driverless trucks on American roadways. According to a Thursday announcement from Swedish freight tech company Einride, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has approved the company’s Autonomous Electric Transport (AET) for use on public...

1

0 Comments 0 Shares 14K Views

Please log in to like, share and comment!
Truck Drivers Life

added blog Trucking News
2025-04-05 02:08:22 -

Feds Blame Speed, Inattention for Fiery Gas Tanker Crash That Collapsed I-95 in Philadelphia
PHILADELPHIA — The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) has released its final report on the gas tanker crash that caused a catastrophic collapse of Interstate 95 in Philadelphia in 2023, concluding that excessive speed and driver inattention were to blame. The crash occurred at approximately 6:17 a.m. on June 11, 2023, when 53-year-old tanker truck driver Nathaniel Moody was...

0 Comments 0 Shares 3K Views

Please log in to like, share and comment!
American Truck Drivers

added blog Trucking News
2023-01-22 23:38:45 -

Feds find $4 million worth of cocaine disguised in semi’s shipment of decorative stone
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) in California recently discovered millions of dollars worth of drugs cleverly concealed within a commercial shipment of decorative stone. The drug bust occurred on January 11, 2023, at the Tecate Cargo Facility in San Diego. CBP officers encountered a 36 year old truck driver hauling a shipment manifested as decorativestone. The truck was referred for...

1

0 Comments 0 Shares 12K Views

Please log in to like, share and comment!
MEGA MISTAKES

added blog Trucking News
2024-04-20 09:47:26 -

Feds plan to replace Unified Registration System with ‘FMCSA Registration System’
The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) is considering doing away with the Unified Registration System (URS) in favor of a new online registration system. In a notice to be published in the Federal Register on April 19, the FMCSA proposed the replacement of the Unified Registration System (URS), with a new, online registration system called the “FMCSA...

0 Comments 0 Shares 12K Views

Please log in to like, share and comment!
MEGA MISTAKES

added blog Trucking News
2024-03-14 13:30:59 -

Feds share plan to create national electric semi freight corridors by 2040
The White House recently released a plan to create national electric semi freight corridors by 2040. On March 12, 2024, the Biden Administration released its National Zero-Emission Freight Corridor Strategy, which is designed to ensure commercial vehicle drivers have access to electric vehicle (EV) charging and hydrogen refueling along existing freight corridors. The strategy is...

0 Comments 0 Shares 10K Views

Please log in to like, share and comment!
MEGA MISTAKES

added blog Trucking News
2021-08-18 23:27:00 -

Feds sue fuel card company for allegedly charging truckers hundreds of millions in ‘mystery fees’
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has filed a complaint a fuel card company and its CEO for allegedly duping customers out of hundreds of millions of dollars worth of “mystery fees.” The FTC filed a complaint against Georgia-based fuel card company FleetCor and its CEO, Ronald Clarke for “charging customers hundreds of millions of dollars in mystery fees associated...

0 Comments 0 Shares 12K Views

Please log in to like, share and comment!
MEGA MISTAKES

added blog Trucking News
2022-07-11 21:29:10 -

Feds to investigate Tesla crash with parked semi that left two dead at Florida rest area
A federal automotive safety agency has opened an investigation into a fatal crash involving a Tesla that left two people dead in Florida last week. On Friday, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) confirmed that a Special Crash Investigations team was deployed in the wake of a crash that occurred around 2 p.m. on July 6 near Gainesville, Florida. According to...

0 Comments 0 Shares 15K Views

Please log in to like, share and comment!
MEGA MISTAKES

added blog Trucking News
2022-05-20 21:38:09 -

Fifteen charged in commercial trucking marijuana trafficking and money laundering scheme, feds seize $40 million in assets
More than a dozen people are facing federal charges for a conspiracy to traffic “semi-truckload quantities of marijuana and THC-containing products” and to “launder the bulk cash proceeds from selling the drugs.” On Friday, May 20, 2022, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Indiana announced that a federal grand jury had indicted fifteen...

0 Comments 0 Shares 13K Views

Please log in to like, share and comment!
MEGA MISTAKES

added blog Trucking News
2021-08-25 14:06:25 -

OOIDA tells feds that driver shortage is a ‘myth’ created to maintain cheap labor supply
A major trucking trade group recently told the U.S. Department of Commerce that high turnover is the real reason that companies are struggling to find drivers, not an overall shortage in the pool of available drivers. Earlier this month at an International Trade Administration’s Advisory Committee on Supply Chain Competitiveness (ACSCC) meeting, industry officials urged Commerce...

0 Comments 0 Shares 11K Views

Please log in to like, share and comment!

More Results