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This week, MTAC President Joe Sculley testified on a bill which would create a Connecticut Infrastructure Bank. Sculley explained that MTAC is not necessarily opposed to the concept of an Infrastructure Bank. However, he suggested that the issue should be studied further before the legislature votes to create the proposed Bank. Sculley said that the…

This week, MTAC President Joe Sculley testified in support of a bill which would fully fund Connecticut’s state-owned rest areas. Sculley explained that funding has been cut so that the rest areas are only staffed from 8:30am to 3:30pm. The buildings are locked at all other times, and there is no staff around. However, truck…

This week, MTAC President Joe Sculley submitted testimony in response to a bill which would prohibit employers from inquiring about the date of birth on employment applications. The testimony explained that federal regulation (49 CFR 391.21) requires that employers ask applicants for commercial truck driving jobs about their date of birth. This is because an…

From FMCSA. FMCSA Launches Motor Carrier Safety Planner FMCSA recently launched the Motor Carrier Safety Planner, a new online guide to help large truck and bus companies better understand and comply with the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Regulations. The safety planner provides plain-language summaries of safety regulations along with sample forms and templates. Visit the…

From Transport Topics. The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration has granted reprieve from hours-of-service rules to one group and received an exemption request from the rules from another. According to a document published in the Federal Register on Feb. 6, FMCSA is granting the American Concrete Pavement Association exemption from two HOS rules: the 30-minute…

The American Transportation Research Institute (ATRI) today released an analysis of the impacts that emerging e-commerce trends are having on the trucking industry, including the challenges and opportunities that more regionalized retail supply chains and the proliferation of urban “last mile” deliveries have presented. This research was identified as a top research priority by ATRI’s Research…

An Emergency Declaration exists for the immediate transportation of heating fuels, including propane, natural gas, and heating oil, and other fuel products, including gasoline, into Connecticut, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Mississippi, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Tennessee, Vermont and Wisconsin, due to severe winter weather.…

On January 30, in the midst of a truck travel ban on the NY Thruway due to a snow storm, an out-of-state based tractor trailer allegedly jack-knifed before striking a NY State Police Trooper parked on the side of the road. The accident triggered a 21-vehicle pile-up which included four tractor-trailers. The state trooper suffered…

From FMCSA. The ELD Frequently Asked Questions have been updated with the following two additions to the Editing and Annotations category. Can a driver be assigned driver records recorded under the Unidentified Driver profile and indicate a special driving category at the time the driver is assigned the driver records? Yes, a driver can be…

From Yankee Institute. Professor of Finance for the College of Staten Island and Research Fellow at The University Transportation Research Center Johnathan Peters says if Connecticut lawmakers are looking to raise revenue for transportation, they might be better off looking somewhere else besides highway tolls. “Tolls, generally, are expensive to collect,” Peters said in an…