MAP-21,, also known as the Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century Act (P.L. 112-141), was signed into law by President Obama on July 6, 2012. This legislation will go into full effect through September 20, 2014, and will bring a wave of changes to the transportation industry.... Read More

Tom Kretsinger Jr. is the President of American Central Transport, Inc. A very experienced manager in today’s trucking world. Recently he wrote on www.bigtrucktv.com/tomkretsinger. In his blog Tom said that besides probably tax increases in 2013, “Other exactions will likely come in the form of fees, tolls and government enforcement actions. The EEOC has been active in pursuing class actions against business to collect money. The DOL has been equally active.... Read More

Something is driving a higher turnover in trucking right now, at 106%, it is the highest it has been this year. I don't know if drivers are finding more money, or if the companies they have worked for finally began forcing drivers to work under the CSA rules they have hid from them in the past.... Read More

If you are in trucking today it is more likely than not that you have one of these in your office. It might be your star player or the low man on the totem pole. It might even be you. But the fact is that one day OSHA may come to visit and put a price on the head of one or more of your dispatchers and you’re going to have to pay that price like it or not.... Read More

When a trucker refused to haul a load of mail until a nonworking light on his assigned trailer was fixed, he was fired. The former truck driver for a Tennessee-based company says he was fired for refusing to “drive trucks with such failures in the future.”

The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration ordered Heartland Transportation Inc. of Andersonville, TN, to pay a former driver more than $31,200 in back pay and damages.... Read More