motor carrier

An Ohio-based carrier was handed down a stiff fine of more than half a million dollars by a U.S. district court judge. The carrier had established five “chameleon” carriers over the course of four years and also failed to report cash transactions to the Internal Revenue Service, according to...

A portion of trucking companies will soon receive notification from the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration that they will be required to submit their 2016 Department of Transportation drug and alcohol testing program results within 60 days. The annual Drug and Alcohol Information...

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration is changing its definition of what constitutes a high-risk motor carrier. In a March 7 notice in the Federal Register the agency said this will identify a smaller number of carriers overall but that those identified will present a higher safety...

The Truckers Forum is happy to announce a top poster contest for October 2015. The winner will win a new Rand McNally Motor Carriers Atlas. Two runner ups will win a one year Supporting Membership at our forum. The contest is simple. Make the most posts during the month of October and you will...

By Charlie Morasch, Land Line contributing writer A labor strike slowed shipping times and clogged truck lanes at the twin ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach during multiple weekday and weekend stretches during the last year. On Saturday, April 25, a group of port drivers serving Los Angeles...

It's time us truck drivers stand up and demand overtime. We are not second class citizens! We deserve overtime just like anyone else! https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/pet...hours/6q1pNCw2 Sign it and share it we need 100,000 signatures!

By Land Line staff A committee that advises the FMCSA on cross-border trucking, electronic logging devices and other programs and proposals has a new chairman. Col. Scott Hernandez of the Colorado State Patrol, former vice chairman of the Motor Carrier Safety Advisory Committee, is now the...

By Charlie Morasch, Land Line contributing writer A former employee of a large Missouri motor carrier will serve nearly six years behind bars after being convicted of embezzling $4.9 million. David VanWinkle, 61, of Neosho, Mo., was sentenced on Friday, Sept. 19 by U.S. District Judge Gary...

By Land Line staff The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration is once again reminding motor carriers to be on the lookout for a new fraud scheme designed to get banking and financial information from unsuspecting victims. “Motor carrier service providers and third-party administrators or...

By Land Line staff Two passenger bus carriers in Georgia and South Carolina and two trucking firms in Massachusetts and Iowa were shut down by federal regulators, who declared all four companies to be imminent hazards to public safety. The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration issued a...

By Greg Grisolano, Land Line staff writer The president of the Colorado Motor Carriers Association is encouraging those looking to support the relief efforts underway in flood-ravaged Colorado to contribute funds to the American Red Cross. “We are working with the state and our carriers on...

A U.S. Senate committee is getting serious about issues that affect truckers, including driver training, detention time, cab crashworthiness and EOBRs. The Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee is gearing up to add motor carrier safety provisions to the next surface transportation...

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Eric Hernandez, a former Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) Motor Carrier Safety Specialist, was sentenced in U.S. District Court, Laredo, Texas, Nov. 3 for accepting a bribe. He was sentenced to serve six months imprisonment, six months home confinement and three years...

It happens all too often. Someone takes a name and a motor carrier number from a small trucking company listed online, sees a valuable load on a load board website and calls a freight broker to take the load. Only days later, the broker and shipper try to punish the trucking company – a victim...

ARLINGTON, Va. — The American Transportation Research Institute (ATRI) today launched a survey to identify CSA impacts on trucking operations, as well as carrier perceptions and attitudes toward the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration’s new regulatory program. The survey, targeted to...

receive insurance information for trucking companies that use subscribing insurance companies. NOR, which contains motor carrier insurance certificate information submitted from insurance companies, is now currently operating in 19 other states. It allows the industry to electronically submit...

Pacific, WA (April 12, 2011)—Gordon Trucking Inc. driver Brian Runnels was recently selected as Wisconsin’s January 2011 Driver of the Month by the Wisconsin Motor Carriers Association. Brian’s exemplary 17-year safe driving record earned him this honor and distinction from the association...

With little fanfare, the Comprehensive Safety Analysis 2010 – CSA 2010 – motor carrier compliance measure system went live to the public on Sunday, Dec. 12. It’s now being called the Compliance, Safety, Accountability program and has dropped the 2010. The motor carrier profiles can be viewed...

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration is ill-equipped to adequately vet the influx of applications — hundreds each week — for the various authorities sought by motor carriers, creating a situation where companies needing more scrutiny can easily slip through the cracks, a two-month...