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The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) has revised its regulatory guidance concerning driver records of duty status (RODS) generated by logging software programs on laptop computers, tablets, and smartphones. This technology will be allowed as of July 10 as long as it provides a means of capturing an electronic signature. (more...)

Truck tonnage as measured by the American Trucking Associations’ For-Hire Truck Tonnage Index rose 1.3 percent in July, pushing the index closer to November 2013’s all-time high. (more...)

The national average price for a gallon of on-highway diesel fell another eight-tenths of a cent in the week ended Aug. 18, putting it at $3.835, according to the Department of Energy’s Energy Information Administration. (more...)

Of the 72,415 drivers inspected in this year’s Roadcheck inspection spree, 4.8 percent were placed out-of-service, and more than half of those were placed out-of-service due to hours of service or logbook violations. (more...)

The Senate this week introduced its version of a bill to cut natural gas-powered trucks a break, as it would give them an exemption to federal truck weight standards as a means to mitigate the weight of nat gas tanks and to prevent natural gas adopters from being at a competitive disadvantage. (more...)

The Senate agreed Wednesday on an $11 billion measure to temporarily fix a multibillion-dollar shortfall in federal highway and transit programs, setting up a vote next week on several alternatives. (more...)

From Tupperware to paint, shampoo to lawn care products, even food, chemicals are part of nearly every product lining home and office shelves. In their raw state, the chemicals used to make these everyday products include such diverse materials as corrosives, acids, pesticides, and plastic pellets. (more...)

Data collected for the International Tank Container Organisation’s (ITCO’s) second Tank Container Fleet Survey shows that 12% more tank containers are in in operation this year than in 2013. Around 42,600 tank containers were manufactured in 2013, up from 39,700 in the previous year. (more...)

The technological revolution that began in the 1990s is culminating in self-driving trucks and other technology that will fundamentally change trucks, fleets and drivers... (more...)

FTR says its June data shows a 41 percent increase in Class 8 net orders from last June, with 26, 255 orders in the month. FTR said June marked 17 consecutive months with year-over-year increases and the best June since 2005. (more...)

Speculation about autonomous — or “driverless” — vehicles has been commonplace in the trucking industry for years. Now, Daimler has made this concept a reality. (More...)

Department of Transportation head Anthony Foxx sent a letter to states July 1 telling them the DOT will have to start restricting reimbursement payments to states starting Aug. 1, unless Congress can act to shore up Highway Trust Fund cash flow before that date. (more...)

Though the working rigs tend to dominate the headlines around Shell Rotella’s annual SuperRigs show, this year there was a firecracker of a truck at the top of the judges’ list in the show-truck category: the “Low Patrol” 1974 Ford W9000 cabover custom rig of “trucking’s biggest fan” Robb Mariani. Pictured above, Mariani bought the rig, with its original 290 Cummins and Rockwell 3:73 rear end (which remain today) and only 53,000 original miles, in 2004 from a car-lot owner in Smithville, Tenn., who himself had purchased it years earlier at an auction conducted by the Tennessee Highway Patrol years ago, where it’d served a long life but logged a very few 38,000 miles. (more...)

Tonnage as measured by the American Trucking Associations’ For-Hire Truck Tonnage Index rose 1 percent in May from April, ATA said June 17, following a 0.9 percent increase in April. (more...)

With the Highway Trust Fund expected to run short as soon as next month, an Oregon congressman wants to revamp the way Americans pay for transportation projects. But other indications from Capitol Hill suggest time is also running out on the chances for a substantial transportation reauthorization bill ahead of the November elections. (more...)