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Truckers to DOT: ‘Smartphones are winning’
Smartphones are whipping the Department of Transportation in the battle for the attention of the motoring public, wrote Whitesboro, Texas-based Pennco Transportation driver Martin Groseclose on...
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Voie named Champion of Change
Ellen Voie is being honored as a Champion of Change for her effort to develop an innovative way to grow and expand the transportation industry to women. Voie, president, CEO and founder of the Women In...
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Leading candidate emerges for DOT secretary spot
Deborah Hersman As reported last week, the departure of Ray LaHood as the Secretary of Transportation in President Barack Obama’s cabinet left a vacancy in the top spot in the U.S. Department of...
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Agency orders shutdown of two carriers, one driver
The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration on March 21 ordered Oak Park, Mich.-based Highway Star Inc. and Atlanta-based General Trucking Inc. to immediately...
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Owner-operator walk-and-talk with Anne Ferro
Owner-operator Scott Grenerth was one of several operators who took the opportunity the Trucking Solutions Group’s health walk at MATS represented to walk-and-talk issues with FMCSA Administrator Anne...
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Crashes and interventions: Blitzkrieg probes coming to trucking
In FMCSA’s Safety Measurement System, this symbol indicates a carrier’s ranking in a certain BASIC has exceeded the intervention or “alert” threshold, marking the carrier for investigative action....
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Nominee for DOT head set for Senate committee hearing
Anthony Foxx The Senate’s Committee on Commerce will be questioning Charlotte Mayor Anthony Foxx Wednesday, May 22, as part of the preliminary stages of the required Senate confirmation process for...
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Transportation secretary nominee Anthony Foxx clears Senate committee
Charlotte Mayor Anthony Foxx, the nominee to replace outgoing Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood, has been approved by the U.S. Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee, clearing the...
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Driver dispatches to DOT: New priorities for a new secretary
Anthony Foxx With Anthony Foxx expected to come in officially this week as head of the Department of Transportation, we asked readers on our Facebook page to tell him what exactly he should make a...
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Ray Lahood: Raise the fuel tax to return nation to ‘envy of the world’ on...
In a wide-ranging Q&A with members of the audience at the ALK tech summit, the former DOT Secretary and congressman also noted the Google car as a future reality, saying he’s been “stunned by the...
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