Posts by MTAC Staff
Debate: Griebel, Lamont talk taxes, jobs and take shots at a missing Stefanowski
From New Haven Register. Oz Griebel said that — if elected — he would try to lower the rate of the personal income tax. He admitted that a projected $4.5 billion deficit over the next two years is a giant challenge. “This is serious stuff that has to be dealt with,” he said. “I do…
Read MoreFree meal for truckers on Sept. 12 at TA Southington
Complimentary hamburgers and hotdogs will be served to commercial truck drivers at the TravelCenters of America (TA) in Southington, CT on Wednesday, September 12, in celebration of National Truck Driver Appreciation week. “This is one small way we can give back to the men and women who deliver America’s goods,” said Doug Parker, who is…
Read MoreConnecticut Legislature short-changed transportation funding by $650 million since 2011
From Yankee Institute. Lawmakers short-changed Connecticut’s Special Transportation Fund by $650 million between 2011 and 2017, according to a transportation funding document released by Senate Republicans — more than enough to pay Connecticut’s portion of the new commuter rail line from New Haven to Springfield, Massachusetts. The vast majority of the funds were “diverted” away…
Read MoreRegister for the 2018 MTAC Annual Meeting
Registration is now open for the 98th Motor Transport Association of Connecticut (MTAC) Annual Meeting! This year’s conference will be at the Four Points Sheraton in Meriden, Conn. on Thursday, Oct. 25. This year’s conference will feature great educational seminars, Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) Division Administrator Chris Henry will speak about the Electronic…
Read MoreI-84 widening project in Connecticut set to open ahead of schedule
From Transport Topics. The Interstate 84 widening project in Waterbury, Conn., which has been going on since 2015, is on track to open one year ahead of schedule. The $300 million project involves the addition of a third travel lane and full-width shoulders in each direction to a 2.7-mile segment of the route, one of…
Read MoreFMCSA seeks industry comment on several potential HOS changes
From Transport Topics. Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration officials have issued a proposal that seeks comment on several possible changes to the agency’s hours-of-service rule, ranging from how to increase driver or workday time in adverse driving conditions to revising the current mandatory 30-minute driver break after eight hours of continuous driving. In a telephone…
Read MoreTrucking industry asked to rank top concerns
From ATRI. The American Transportation Research Institute, the trucking industry’s not-for-profit research organization, today launched the 2018 Top Industry Issues Survey. The annual survey asks trucking industry stakeholders to rank the top issues of concern for the industry along with appropriate strategies for addressing each issue. The survey is in its 14th year and participation…
Read MoreConnecticut truck drivers have the 8th highest salary in U.S.
From The Hour via Business Insider. Truck driver salaries have been on the up and up for some truckers in 2018. Nearly 50% of all truckers in the National Transportation Institute’s quarterly survey on trucker pay received salary bumps in 2018, according to Gordon Klemp, principal of the National Transportation Institute. Last year, only 11%…
Read MoreFMCSA to study use of statistical modeling to determine carrier interventions
From FreightWaves. The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) has agreed to implement a series of actions as it works toward the possible implementation of an Item Response Theory (IRT) approach to identifying at-risk carriers for intervention. IRT is a data-driven approach that has been used in other settings, such as ranking hospitals, says Science…
Read MoreGetting There: Targeting truckers wrong way to address Connecticut traffic woes
From New Haven Register. “Why don’t we just ban all trucks from our interstate highways in rush hour?” A mayor of a small Fairfield County town recently asked me this question. He’s a smart guy who obviously had given a lot of thought to resolving our traffic woes and believed he had the answer to…
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