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Transportation businesses face a host of dynamic risk issues that can significantly impact their financial and operational health. The news in this category focuses on the latest safety and security initiatives, resources and regulations and addresses topics that include fleet safety, claims administration, driver hiring and retention, risk management and compliance.

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Rhode Island's David Lumpkin Earns First Grand Champion Honor, but He鈥檚 Thinking About His Son

The father-son duo of David Lumpkin and Stephen Lumpkin are returning to the National Truck Driving Championships, but David 鈥 the Rhode Island Grand Champion 鈥 is grateful that this time they'll be competing in different classes.

June 24, 2019
GovernmentBusinessSafety

Michigan Transportation Bills Focus on Taxes, Truck Tolling

Democrats in the Michigan House of Representatives have introduced transportation funding bills that would place additional taxes and tolls on trucks.

June 24, 2019
BusinessTechnologyEquipmentSafety

Fleets Must Choose Tire Inflation, Monitoring Systems That Work Best for Their Operations, Industry Representatives Say

Blown-out, flat or damaged tires are considered by fleets to be at least a leading cause of roadside maintenance calls for commercial trucks, while underinflated tires are the single-biggest source of tire issues in general.

June 24, 2019
BusinessSafety

2019 West Virginia Truck Driving Championships

Scenes from the West Virginia Truck Driving Championships.

June 24, 2019
BusinessSafetyTop 100

A New Generation of Leaders: Lead ATA Participants Set Out to Guide Trucking鈥檚 Future

The freight transportation industry, much like many other core segments of the economy, has experienced its share of growing pains in the Information Age. But trucking companies are tackling those challenges with fresh ideas, increasingly spearheaded by a new crop of leaders.

June 24, 2019
GovernmentBusinessSafetyFuel

Summer Driving Gets More Costly as East Coast Refinery Burns

Gasoline futures jumped the most in more than three months after an explosion and fire at the Philadelphia Energy Solutions oil refinery, the largest on the U.S. East Coast and a key supplier to the New York gasoline market.

June 21, 2019
BusinessSafety

Virginia Crowns Two Grand Champions After Scoring Error

FedEx Freight driver Chuck Bird earned co-Grand Champions honors along with Mike Barnes of Walmart Transportation at the 68th annual Virginia Truck Driving Championships June 14-15.

June 21, 2019
BusinessTechnologySafetyAutonomous

VTNA Pursues Intuitive AI to Improve Safety

Volvo Trucks North America announced it has demonstrated how leveraging 鈥渉uman intuition artificial intelligence鈥 鈥 that reads the intention and awareness of vulnerable road users such as pedestrians, cyclists and motorists 鈥 can enhance the situational awareness of truck drivers.

June 21, 2019
BusinessSafety

2019 Kansas Truck Driving Championships

Scenes from the Kansas Truck Driving Championships at Kansas Expocentre in Topeka on June 14-15.

June 21, 2019
GovernmentSafety

NHTSA Preliminary Estimates Report: Truck-Related Fatalities Up 3%

Fatalities in crashes involving at least one large truck increased by 3% in 2018 from 2017, despite a decrease of about 1% for all vehicles combined over the same period, according to a preliminary report by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.

June 20, 2019

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