Goodbye, Good Riddance! Public Citizen president steps down

Dec 142008
 
 14/12/2008  Posted by PMC at 23:45 on 14/12/2008 Comments Off
Goodbye, Good Riddance! Public Citizen president steps down

  Joan Claybrook, longtime safety and consumer advocate, and pain in the ass for the US trucking industry, announced last week she is stepping down as president of special interest group, Public Citizen, on Jan. 31, 2009. In her 27-year tenure, Claybrook said in a statement, among other things, the expansion of dangerous triple-trailer trucks was stopped, limiting their operation to about a dozen, mostly western, states. Some in trucking have labeled her organization as anti-truck, as the industry has been a frequent target of Public Citizen’s lobbying campaigns. It also in the past aligned itself with the formerly railway-funded group CRASH ….Read More

Medical Certificates now part of CDL Process

Dec 022008
 
 02/12/2008  Posted by PMC at 07:44 on 02/12/2008 Comments Off
Medical Certificates now part of CDL Process

The Federal Motor Carriers Safety Administration issued a final rule that changes the way states must verify the medical certification for truckers either renewing or applying for a CDL. Phased in compliance deadlines for states, motor carriers and truckers start kicking in on Jan. 30, 2012. Once everything is up and running on the state level, truckers will be required to present either the original or a copy of the current medical examiner’s certificate. The state agency must then date stamp the certification card and return it to the trucker. The date-stamped card will be sufficient to prove medical certification ….Read More

YRC seeks relief from National Master Freight Agreement

Nov 252008
 
 25/11/2008  Posted by PMC at 07:36 on 25/11/2008 Comments Off

Jimmy Hoffa must be needing a double helping of prunes this morning as word is emerging that Yellow Roadway Corporation is seeking economic relief from the National Master Freight Agreement. In a mailer sent out yesterday to rank and file members, The Teamsters said; YRC Worldwide Inc. management has been seeking economic relief in the National Master Freight Agreement for several weeks. Following the recent downgrading of its debt rating by both Standard and Poor’s and Moody’s Investors Service and its impact on the company’s ability to maintain a line of credit, the Teamsters General Executive Board today unanimously agreed ….Read More

HOS Rules affirmed by OMB – Hoffa pissed!

Nov 212008
 
 21/11/2008  Posted by PMC at 05:57 on 21/11/2008 Comments Off
HOS Rules affirmed by OMB - Hoffa pissed!

  Under the usual mantra of maximum pay for minimal work, Teamster’s Union President Jimmy boy Hoffa came out swinging today against the Hour of Service rules published by FMCSA. Hoffa said the Bush administration is undermining highway safety with its “last-minute regulation” that lets truckers drive longer hours. Where’s Hoffa been the past 5 years? Last minute regulations? “We will continue to fight this dangerous midnight rule through the courts and through Congress,” Hoffa said. “We’re currently reviewing our legal options, especially since the court threw out this regulation twice. “Letting tired truck drivers spend even more time behind ….Read More

Freightliner closing Oregon Plant, Sterling Trucks back into history

Oct 162008
 
 16/10/2008  Posted by PMC at 14:29 on 16/10/2008 1 Response »
Freightliner closing Oregon Plant, Sterling Trucks back into history

It was the kind of employer that every metropolitan government in the country covets: a respected, long-time manufacturer that employed hundreds of local workers and paid them a living wage, with benefits. But Freightliner’s headquarters are in Germany and its primary markets are on the American East Coast and, as a consequence, Portland’s wishes didn’t amount to a compelling reason for the company to keep building trucks on Swan Island. That’s why Daimler said this week it would shut down its Freightliner truck plant in 2010, when its labor contracts expire. At least 900 Oregon-based employees will lose their jobs. ….Read More

Who will be the next trucking company to close the doors? Jimmy Hoffa knows!

Sep 242008
 
 24/09/2008  Posted by PMC at 09:05 on 24/09/2008 2 Responses »
Who will be the next trucking company to close the doors? Jimmy Hoffa knows!

In this era of escalating fuel prices, unheard of numbers of truck repossession and a stagnant freight base, some people just don’t get it. From the AP and The Trucker comes the headline story of Teamsters picket Washington-based trucking company AUBURN, Wash. — Picketers are carrying Teamsters strike signs outside Oak Harbor Freight operations in the Pacific Northwest. Oak Harbor Freight lines, with 1300 employees, of which almost half are Teamsters (550) walked yesterday after talks between management and labor came to an impasse’.

Canadian Cross Border Trucker charged with vehicular homicide in fatal rollover

Aug 282008
 
 28/08/2008  Posted by PMC at 16:09 on 28/08/2008 2 Responses »
Canadian Cross Border Trucker charged with vehicular homicide in fatal rollover

45-year-old Chi Kong Chow is being held in the Hamilton County Jail after causing a crash on Fort Washington Way that injured two sisters and killed another on Wednesday night. Police say Chow may have been speeding when he lost control of his truck and it tipped over onto the SUV, containing 52-year-old Rhonda Gandy, 52-year-old Rhenda Driver and 57-year-old Susan Struwe. Struwe and Driver were injured and Gandy was killed. Chow and his passenger had minor injuries. Wong is from Canada and is being held on $20,000 bond.

FMCSA Administrator John Hill rebutts the rants of Teamsters President Jimmy Hoffa

Aug 252008
 
 25/08/2008  Posted by PMC at 10:12 on 25/08/2008 Comments Off
FMCSA Administrator John Hill rebutts the rants of Teamsters President Jimmy Hoffa

We all know the controversial Mexican Cross Border Program was extended for two more years on August 8, under Federal guidelines concerning Pilot Programs, and as we reported, Jimmy Hoffa immediately showed his no class ignorance by continuing his boring mantra about those unsafe, dangerous and illegal Mexican trucks, a notion we have continually disproved on this site.

Politicos seek to make political “brownie points” from weekend trifecta of bus accidents

Aug 122008
 
 12/08/2008  Posted by PMC at 08:52 on 12/08/2008 Comments Off
Politicos seek to make political "brownie points" from weekend trifecta of bus accidents

Bill would mandate “Black Boxes” in all CMV’s Two U.S. senators today urged tougher regulations aimed at improving bus safety in response to last week’s deadly accident that killed 17 Vietnamese Catholics from Houston. Sens. Kay Bailey Hutchison, R-Texas, and Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, issued statements calling for the passage of their legislation, known as the Motorcoach Enhanced Safety Act. The pair introduced the bill, which would require bus owners to provide seat belts, fire extinguishers and other safety enhancements, last fall after a bus crash in Georgia killed several college athletes from an Ohio college.

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