The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) are closer than ever to requiring speed limiters on vehicles weighing more than 26,000 pounds. The agency is debating between setting the limit at 60, 65, or 68 miles per hour and is taking public input before reaching a final […]
Driverless Trucks and Their Drivers
Worried about driverless trucks? “Don’t give up that CDL any time soon” says Deborah Lockridge, Editor in Chief of Heavy Duty Trucking Magazine (Taking it Slow on the Road to Autonomous Trucks). Although many in Silicon Valley see driverless trucks as a replacement for human drivers Lockridge notes that every demonstration she has seen still […]
The Unintended Cost of Cost Cutting
On Sunday April 19th The Albany-Times Union published a very interesting article about a business owner who falsified insurance filings. David M. Johnson, CEO of a company called Professional Fire Restoration Services pled guilty to a misdemeanor count of falsifying business records.