NHTSA’s proposal to require drunk and impaired driving prevention technology in all new passenger vehicles has sat in limbo since early 2024. Now, with a new White House, fleets, OEMs and safety advocates are asking: Will the FMVSS become reality or is this another safety initiative lost to election-year politics?
What the 2025 FMCSA rule blitz really changes: a side-by-side breakdown of old rules, new language, and what fleets, drivers and compliance teams need to know. FMCSA dropped 18 proposed and two final rules into the Federal Register. We’re giving you the practical play-by-play.
Turning grieve into advocacy, mothers Marianne Karth and Lois Durso are pushing for mandatory side underride guards be added to tractor-trailers. On Thursday, they read the names of nearly 750 victims of underride crashes at DOT headquarters in Washington.
Proposed rulemaking on automatic emergency braking (AEB) introduced in June by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration is getting more pushback from a coalition of state law enforcement officials and brake manufacturers that argue more dialogue is needed before moving forward.
Traffic Crashes Cost America $340 Billion in 2019
A cross-section of Industry experts offer thoughts on how transportation management systems will integrate with autonomous trucks.
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Western Star is recalling 6,830 trucks for possible stalling due to a faulty wiring harness. Some are being called back for a second time.
Daimler Trucks North America signed a consent order with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration agreeing to pay up to $30 million for tardiness in reporting safety recalls in 2017 and 2018.
Drivers have a tough enough job without the weather interfering. These are some states where the weather can be the most dangerous.
Autonomous trucking company Plus has filed its safety self-assessment report as concerns persist about the usefulness of the voluntary reports in determining the safety of a given self-driving system.
In today’s edition of The Daily Dash, electric driveline manufacturer Hyliion officially became a public company on Friday. Plus, Uber Freight secures $500 million in funding and trucking’s recovery continued in September.
U.S. DOT green lights Nuro with first ever autonomous vehicle exemption
A former Dallas police officer pleaded guilty on October 16 to falsifying traffic tickets in order to collect overtime pay through a program funded by a federal grant aimed at curbing fatal and serious injury crashes on Dallas roadways.
The company is the first to release a safety assessment before testing vehicles on public roads.
California moved as expected Friday, Sept. 20, to sue the Trump administration over stripping its waiver to set tougher emissions standards for passenger cars and light-duty trucks than the federal government.
Drivewyze worked with safety offices and law enforcement in 32 states to identify 500 high rollover and low bridge locations. It sends audible and visual warnings to truckers before they reach them.
Volvo Trucks says anyone involved in heavy-duty trucking has a “moral obligation” to make trucking safer.
Truckload carriers expect “dramatic increase” in fuel efficiency with speed mandate.
Acknowledging the widespread issue of distracted driving is the first step to change. Technology can be used to monitor real-time driving behavior, with those insights leveraged to improve driver behavior.
Banks set carbon emissions standards for lending limits; oil production in the Permian basin booms; distracted driving problem is larger than previously thought.
House committee urges “national strategy” to address the issue
FMCSA will look to avoid separate rules while addressing new technologies
GAO also recommends more research that could lead to side guard requirements.
Trump’s budget bodes well for certain freight grants but Democrats take issue with reliance on the private sector.
If confirmed, the new DOJ deputy could bring with him from DOT potential deregulatory influence.
Speed limiter regulations sat idling under Bush and Obama, so truck safety groups now look to Congress – and Trump – to put it in gear.
Fatalities in all other types of accidents were down. Crashes involving large trucks were the only one moving the other way.
Daimler Trucks North America is recalling 18,105 2018-2019 Freightliner Cascadia vehicles for a brake caliper mounting bolt issue, the company informed the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.
The ATA recognizes that “technology is cool,” but also that it had better play its own vital role in adopting and adapting plans in a realistic manner.
More than 400,000 Freightliner and Western Star Trucks are being recalled by Daimler Trucks North America (DTNA) due to a potentially defective brake light.
