Latest Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration Stories
ARLINGTON, Va., Dec. 22, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Today, leaders of the American Trucking Associations expressed their frustration and disappointment that the Obama administration issued an unjustified final rule governing hours-of-service that will do nothing to improve highway safety, but will very likely increase the risk of truck-involved crashes. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20100129/ATALOGO) "Today's announcement of a new rule on the hours-of-service is...
ARLINGTON, Va., Dec. 14, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- American Trucking Associations President and CEO Bill Graves issued the following statement after the National Transportation Safety Board's report on a 2010 truck-involved crash in Gray Summit, Mo.: (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20100129/ATALOGO) "Every fatality on our highways is a tragedy, but never more so than when the crash could so easily have been avoided. The NTSB's investigation and report underscores the...
WASHINGTON, Dec. 8, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Democratic leaders of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation today introduced legislation to advance commercial motor vehicle (CMV) safety and authorize programs and activities of the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA), the federal agency of the U.S. Department of Transportation responsible for reducing CMV-related fatalities and injuries. <font size="2" face="Arial">The legislation...
ARLINGTON, Va., Dec. 7, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- With the Obama administration currently weighing unnecessary changes to the current hours-of-service rules, American Trucking Associations President and CEO Bill Graves said the focus on this area by advocacy groups and the current leadership at the Department of Transportation has prevented progress on a number of other, more pressing safety concerns. (Logo: <font size="2"...
ARLINGTON, Va., Dec. 2, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- For the first time, Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) Administrator Anne Ferro revealed that initial 2010 data on fatal truck crashes indicate truck crash fatalities have increased to nearly 4,000 people. In 2009, 3,380 people were killed in truck crashes and 74,000 others were injured. Administrator Ferro released this information during her testimony on the pending truck driver hours of service (HOS) reforms...
<font size="2" face="Arial">Safety Groups, Victims and Survivors, and Labor Urge Congress Not to Bow to Special Interests on Life and Death Safety Issue</font> WASHINGTON, Nov. 30, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Safety groups, families of truck crash victims, and labor today joined U.S. Representatives Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) and Jackie Speier (D-CA) at a press conference to support revising the truck driver hours of service (HOS) rule to reduce driver fatigue, a...
Hoffa: Federal Regulators Must Protect Workers' Health and Safety WASHINGTON, Nov. 30, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Teamsters General President Jim Hoffa today said federal regulators should put the health and welfare of American truck drivers above the greed of the trucking industry. (Logo: <font size="2" face="Arial">http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20100127/IBTLOGO</font>) Hoffa's comment came before a hearing on the truck driver hours-of-service rule before...
ARLINGTON, Va., Nov. 29, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- In advance of tomorrow's hearing before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee's Subcommittee on Regulatory Affairs, American Trucking Associations President and CEO Bill Graves questioned the aims of groups pressing the federal government to dismantle a successful regulation. (Logo: <font size="2" face="Arial">http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20100129/ATALOGO</font>) "Since the Federal Motor...
Hoffa: Pilot Program Is An Attack on American Truckers and Warehouse Workers WASHINGTON, Nov. 23, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Teamsters on Wednesday sued to block the U.S. Department of Transportation from opening the U.S. border to dangerous Mexican trucks through an illegal pilot program. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20100127/IBTLOGO) "Opening the border to these dangerous, dirty trucks is an attack on highway safety, an attack on American truckers and warehouse...
ARLINGTON, Va., Nov. 23, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- American Trucking Associations today announced their support for the final rule issued by the Department of Transportation and Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration to ban the use of handheld cellphones by commercial truck and bus drivers. (Logo: <font size="2" face="Arial">http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20100129/ATALOGO</font>) "ATA has been vocal in its support of Transportation Secretary LaHood's quest...
