US truck fatalities keep falling

WASHINGTON -- Despite special interest groups' and some media's recent efforts to portray trucks as increasingly dangerous, fatalities from crashes involving medium and heavy trucks fell15.9 percent 2008, compared to 2007.

US DOT to forge ahead with texting ban for truckers

WASHINGTON -- Drive-by-texting will likely be illegal soon enough for truckers in the U.S.

Zeppelin ready to rock Calgary

CALGARY - - Think some of your competitors are full of hot air? Just wait until the people from SkyHook get into the freight-hauling game.

Bison hauls in another safety award

LAS VEGAS -- Bison Transport's safety record in 2008 earned the carrier top spot in a new safety award launched by Volvo Trucks North America.

Braking Point: There’s options for NHTSA’s stop distance rule

TORONTO -- After more false starts than an old cabover on a February morning in Saskatoon, the U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) issued a long-awaited new braking standard that cuts allowable tractor stopping distance by 30 percent.

Carrier won challenge to truck smoking fine years ago

TORONTO -- The haze may be lifting from the smoking-in-trucks issue in Ontario.

OTA seeks clearer guidelines on trucker smoking regs

TORONTO -- The head of the Ontario Trucking Association has written to the Minister of Health Promotion, Margarett R. Best, about clarifying for drivers the rules regarding truckers smoking in their cabs.

Tanks For Nothing: ‘Wetlines’ rule could be costly and dangerous

TORONTO -- It ain't easy getting tanked south of the border. Congress is looking to make life even more complicated (and expensive) for tank fleets that operate in America.

CVSA Safe Driver enforcement blitz kicks off this week

WASHINGTON -- Truck inspectors across North America are out in full force this week for the annual Operation Safe Driver campaign.

Hybrids: No noise is good noise for lawyers

NEW YORK -- Hybrid trucks and cars reduce emissions pollution coming out of exhaust pipes, but it's the low levels of noise pollution that has at least one New York lawyer blowing smoke.

IMMIGRANT DRIVER GUIDE

New from the CTHRC is a guide to help fleets hire and integrate immigrant drivers

Sleep apnea program should be law: US safety board

WASHINGTON -- Trucking rulemaklers should implement a program to identify commercial drivers at high risk for obstructive sleep apnea, or OSA, says the National Transportation Safety Board.

On the Rocks: Jersey passes vehicle ice-clearing law

TRENTON, N.J. -- The Garden State is officially the first jurisdiction in North America to require that drivers remove snow and ice from atop their cars, trucks and trailers.

B.C. answers the cell ban call

VICTORIA -- Drivers in B.C. will have financial reasons to make switching to hands-free cell phones a New Year's resolution.

Speed limiters coasting west?

VANCOUVER -- In a recent blog posted on the Vancouver Sun website, Paul Landry urges the B.C. government to consider speed limiter legislation in the province.