I noticed a spike in visitors to the site today and I assumed they were looking for my reaction to the announcement that the Teamster’s are mounting a “grass roots” campaign to have Secretary of Transportation “fired”! My reaction? Who gives a rat’s ass! We’ve grown used to the lies and exaggerations of this group when anything concerning the Cross Border program is brought up. We’ve listened to Hoffa’s whining and his allegations without proof about the program. And now, like a child, he resorts to character assassination of a good woman doing the job she was hired to do. ….Read More
25/01/2008
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A motion asking a federal court to force the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration to eliminate the 11-hour driving limit and the optional 34-hour restart provision was denied Wednesday, Jan. 23.The motion was filed Dec. 19, 2007, with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit by Public Citizen, Citizens for Reliable and Safe Highways, Parents Against Tired Truckers, Advocates for Highway and Auto Safety, and the International Brotherhood of Teamsters. In the motion, the groups asked the court to vacate the FMCSA’s interim final rule on HOS – or at least the portion of it that ….Read More
29/12/2007
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WASHINGTON, Dec. 27 – The bus company involved in a fatal crash in Arkansas last month has been declared an “imminent hazard” by the Federal Motor Safety Administration (FMCSA), and must immediately cease all commercial operations. The order was served to Tornado Bus Co., Inc., of Dallas, Texas, by FMCSA officials on Dec. 21, 2007. “Based upon your present state of unacceptable safety compliance and your failure to adequately establish safety management systems and oversee your drivers’ duty status and hours-of-service (HOS), your motor carrier operation poses an ‘imminent hazard’ to public safety,” the FMCSA document stated.
28/12/2007
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Individuals seeking new commercial driver’s licenses (CDL) would be required to complete both classroom and behind-the-wheel training from an accredited educational program or institution under a proposed rule announced today by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA).
Dec 272007
27/12/2007
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In accordance with the 2008 omnibus appropriations act, the U.S. Department of Transportation will not establish any new demonstration programs with Mexico. The current cross-border trucking demonstration project – established in September – will continue to operate in a manner that puts safety first, with participating Mexican carriers subject to all safety standards required by the 2008 omnibus bill, while giving U.S. trucking companies new opportunities and U.S. consumers significant savings
07/12/2007
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After a lull in the campaign of misinformation being thrown about by OOIDA and it’s leadership <sic>, suddenly more “facts” emerge in their efforts to derail the Cross Border Truck Program. I say “facts”, because what they are reporting could not be further from the truth. World Net Daily, scraping a piece from the in-house rag of OOIDA, Landline Now, reports in it’s headline, Hundreds of safety violations documented for Mexican rigs This is a patently false statement!