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Driver issues
FMCSA loosens enforcement of driver violation reporting
Temporary change could leave carriers vulnerable to disqualified drivers.
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Driver issues
A youth-driven approach to the driver shortage
Nothing fires up the trucking community like a strong opinion on the driver shortage. From its inception, FreightWaves waded into the conversation, balancing perspectives from…
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Driver issues
Nauto launches real-time driver behavior learning platform for fleets
AI-powered driver behavior monitoring startup Nauto has launched a real-time, in-vehicle solution that helps reduce driver distraction on the road through targeted alerts and coaching.
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News
Jury slaps Werner Enterprises with $40.5 million ‘nuclear verdict’ in fatal crash
A New Mexico jury awarded the family of a woman killed in a February 2017 crash involving a student driver for Werner Enterprises Inc. around…
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News
AvatarFleet President offers solutions to ‘the driver problem’
AvatarFleet is in the business of simplifying the process in which transportation companies find not just drivers, but safe drivers.
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Asia-Pacific
Down Under Trucking: bureaucrats ignore trucking experts
Experts say Aussie trucks should be widened a tiny amount... but officials ain't listening. Also: truck driver funding; fatigue; drugged drivers.
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Canada
Maple Leaf Motoring: Alberta scraps carbon tax
Diesel prices fall in the western Canadian province as a leader makes good on a campaign pledge. But the Trudeau government plans impose a federal…
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Driver issues
Higher training levels sought by Mexican driver facility
Simulators to benefit training standards in Mexico and the U.S.
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Driver issues
FMCSA hopes to clarify what constitutes an “agricultural commodity” with new rule
What makes a commodity and agricultural commodity? That is one question that the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administrations hopes to answer soon, it said, during…
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Canada
Trucker sentenced to eight years in Canada crash that killed 16
Accident that killed members of the Humboldt Broncos hockey team in Saskatchewan spurred efforts improve driver-training standards in country.
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