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From CVSA: The Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance’s (CVSA) 30th annual International Roadcheck will take place June 6-8, 2017. Over a 72-hour period, CVSA-certified commercial motor vehicle inspectors in jurisdictions throughout North America will conduct inspections of commercial motor vehicles and their drivers. Each year, International Roadcheck places special emphasis on a category of violations. This […]

Excerpt from The Hartford Courant. Two Republican state senators wrote Monday to the Commissioner of the state Department of Transportation, questioning his agency’s decision to close all toilet facilities at seven interstate highway rest areas that commercial truckers use for their federally required rest from driving. Citing a Government Watch column published in The Courant […]

Excerpt from WTNH News 8. The state’s rest areas are where travelers and truckers can pull over and rest, but soon that may be all they can do at some of them. Right now, the facilities at seven rest areas throughout the state are closed more than they are open. Most are open only between […]

Registration for the 2017 Truck Driving Championship (TDC) is now open! Drivers or their safety managers can visit the MTAC TDC website section sign up and download the forms necessary to complete their registration. Once the registration has been received, a copy of the Rules for Drivers will be sent directly to them. This year’s event will […]

Excerpt from Hartford Courant article: Highways in Hartford and Waterbury need hugely expensive maintenance, transit users are tired of steadily rising fares and Fairfield County drivers want relief from ever-worsening traffic congestion. Those were just a few of the arguments put forward Monday at a five-hour-long legislative debate over the idea of levying tolls on […]