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Truck Stops Join the Battle for Driver Retention
Folks used to say if you wanted to find a good place to eat on the road, you looked for a place with trucks parked in front of it.
December 28, 1998'Botts Dots' Make a Friendly Bump in the Night
It鈥檚 a dark night, it鈥檚 drizzling and you鈥檙e approaching a foreboding curve with various looming undulations of landscape on both sides of the road. Your eyes focus on the brightly shining reflectors running along the centerline of the narrow highway. If the reflectors weren鈥檛 there to catch your headlight beams, if they weren鈥檛 evenly spaced to mark the coming route like stitches on the planet鈥檚 crust, you鈥檇 probably feel uneasy. Without them to point the way, you could find yourself hurtling off the dark asphalt.
December 28, 1998Fine-Tuned Drug Testing Requested
American Trucking Associations is seeking the support of the head of the nation鈥檚 anti-drug program for changes in truck driver drug-testing laws.
December 28, 1998Truck Safety a Top Priority
Improving surface transportation safety ranks just behind aviation safety as a priority of the Department of Transportation, according to a new report by the department鈥檚 inspector general.
December 28, 1998Expect More Flexibility in Rules
The federal government recognizes that it takes more than good vision to make a good truck driver.
December 28, 1998EPA Refutes Engine Makers' Claims
The Environmental Protection Agency flatly denied claims by the nation鈥檚 largest diesel engine manufacturers that they had warned the agency in 1994 that its pollution tests were flawed and didn鈥檛 properly measure engine emissions.
December 23, 1998EPA's Letter to Transport Topics
The full text of a letter from the Environmental Protection Agency to Transport Topics.
December 23, 1998Fuel Tanks Must Be Up to Specs
Did Dec. 22 come and go with a splash? It was the deadline for compliance with federal laws on underground fuel storage tanks.
December 23, 1998STB Extends Rate Bureau Authority
The Surface Transportation Board extended for one year the authority of motor carrier rate bureaus to set rates and the National Classification Committee to establish commodity classes for freight moving by truck.
December 23, 1998Teamsters Say ANR May Close
Striking ANR Advance Transportation employees put down their picket signs last week as hope faded for one of the nation鈥檚 most enduring trucking companies.
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