WASHINGTON — Adrienne Camire has been appointed to lead the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration as both deputy and acting administrator, FMCSA announced on Friday.
Camire, who was chief counsel at the Federal Highway Administration during the first Trump administration, had been named senior adviser at FMCSA by Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy in January.
“Thank you to President Trump and Secretary Duffy for their confidence in me to serve in this...
New York City is declaring again that it has made significant progress keeping overweight trucks off a key highway using a weigh-in-wotion (WIM) system. Now it wants to expand the use of the technology to other parts of the state that handle heavy truck traffic.
The WIM technology is on the unique cantilevered section of the Brooklyn Queens Expressway, designated Interstate 278, that runs between south Brooklyn and north into Queens. The cantilever is a three-tiered structure that moves...
WASHINGTON — Legislation that would give truck drivers the right to overtime pay was reintroduced in both the House and Senate on Thursday.
The Guaranteeing Overtime for Truckers Act would eliminate an exemption in the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) of 1938 that gives employers the right to exempt their drivers from overtime compensation – meaning they’re excluded from guaranteed time-and-a-half pay if they work more than 40 hours a week due to traffic congestion, weather or delays at loading...
https://www.freightwaves.com/news/house-senate-reintroduce-trucker-overtime-pay-bill
New England will probably be ground zero for observing how a 10% tariff on Canadian crude and refined product exports to the U.S. hits prices at the pump.
While Mexico is also facing those tariffs, that country is mostly an exporter of crude to the U.S. Along with significant Canadian crude exports to the U.S., it may take an undetermined amount of time for imports on a raw material like crude to show up in a retail diesel or gasoline price. (Mexico’s tariff is 25%).
However, New England is...
https://www.freightwaves.com/news/tariff-impacts-on-diesel-prices-will-likely-hit-new-england-first
WASHINGTON — The U.S. House of Representatives on Monday passed a bill that would require the U.S. Postal Service to crack down on safety lapses involving its long-haul trucking contractors.
The Mail Traffic Deaths Reporting Act of 2025, bipartisan legislation spearheaded by U.S. Reps. Gerry Connolly, D-Va., and James Comer, R-Ky., and would give Postal Service truck contractors and employees three days to report to the agency any crash they are involved in that results in injury or death.
It...
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WASHINGTON-La Ley de Mejora de la Seguridad del Estacionamiento de Truck se reintrodució el jueves en el Congreso para dedicar subvenciones federales específicamente para aumentar los espacios de estacionamiento disponibles que los camioneros necesitan desesperadamente para descansar durante las horas fuera de servicio. La última versión del proyecto de ley reservaría $ 755 millones durante […]
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WASHINGTON — The Truck Parking Safety Improvement Act was reintroduced in Congress on Thursday to dedicate federal grants specifically for increasing available parking spaces desperately needed by truckers for resting during off-duty hours.
The latest version of the bill would set aside $755 million over five years (FY2025 through FY 2029) that would be available through a competitive grant program. Similar legislation was introduced in 2021 and in 2023.
“I grew up in a family trucking business,”...
https://www.freightwaves.com/news/house-lawmakers-reintroduce-truck-parking-bill
WASHINGTON — The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration could and should do much more to address the surge in cargo theft in the trucking industry, according to carriers that have fallen victim to the crime.
“One issue we’ve seen constantly is that [FMCSA] is falling further and further behind the sophistication of these criminal organizations,” Adam Blanchard, CEO of San Antonio-based trucking company Double Diamond Transport and brokerage Tanager Logistics LLC, testified before the Senate...
https://www.freightwaves.com/news/lawmakers-look-at-expanding-fmcsas-power-to-rein-in-cargo-theft
International Roadcheck will be May 13-15 this year.
The Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance announced the dates Wednesday.
The focus of Roadcheck this year will be both compliance with federal hours-of-service regulations and tire maintenance.
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La revisión del Congreso se avecina para las reglas de emisiones de camiones de California (Foto: Jim Allen/Freightwaves) La Agencia de Protección Ambiental bajo la administración Trump ha dado un paso significativo para revocar potencialmente las regulaciones de emisiones de camiones de...