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Letters: 鈥07 Engines, Fuel Surcharges
Review of the 2007 generation of diesel engines has been a very hot topic this year. At the annual American Trucking Associations Technology & Maintenance Council meeting, I was one of the panelists asked to score the performance of the 2007 engines based on TransAm鈥檚 experiences.
May 3, 2010Letters: CSA 2010 (Cont.鈥檇), Postal Service & HOS, Broker Bonds
Regarding electronic logs and Comprehensive Safety Analysis 2010, if they want to regulate this industry, they should just do it and make sure we get paid 鈥 and get us hourly and overtime pay.
April 26, 2010Letters: CSA 2010, NTA Clarification, Ray LaHood, Kansas & N.Y./N.J., Bendix & Mid-America
I have been reading a lot about CSA 2010 and the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration鈥檚 attempt to eliminate bad carriers. There also is talk about preventing carriers that have had their operating authority revoked from returning as new carriers.
April 12, 2010Letters: Recruiting Drivers, 鈥楽plit Sleeper鈥 Option
I recently started receiving Transport Topics and was especially interested in what you had to say the Feb. 22 p. 1 story, 鈥淭ransportation Firms Must Improve Recruiting to Satisfy Customers鈥 Desires, Leaders Say.鈥
March 22, 2010Letters: In-Cab Distractions, Sen. Bunning, CSA 2010, DOT Physicals
Numerous national health and safety organizations have come together to petition and support the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration鈥檚 regulation to ban cell-phone use in commercial vehicles.
March 15, 2010Letters: Port Battles, Telemarketers, Carbon Footprint, Sleep Apnea, Buy American
Who is paying the legal costs for the Port of Los Angeles to pursue the 鈥渆mployee only鈥 model? How much taxpayer money is being wasted on a lost cause that has been reviewed and re-reviewed in the courts?
March 8, 2010Letters: A True Leader, CSA 2010 (Cont.鈥檇)
Iowa鈥檚 trucking industry lost a dear friend and valued leader this past week. John Ruan was one of the three founders of the Iowa Motor Truck Association.
March 1, 2010Letters: Truck Weight, IdleAire, Truck Driving Schools, CSA 2010, Classifying Drivers
The letter from [an official] of Road Safe America that appeared in the Feb. 1 edition contained a number of misstatements and misunderstandings.
February 22, 2010Letters: EOBRs Revisited, Hours of Service, Infrastructure
Regarding the letter with the headline 鈥淓OBRs Revisited,鈥 there was a very interesting guest commentary about electronic onboard recorders recently in another publication, in which the author claimed only 2% of crashes occur after more than 10 hours of driving time.
February 8, 2010Letters: Truck Size & Weight, HOS Not Safe, Game Plan
In questions of safety, heavier trucks are not the answer.
February 1, 2010