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The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration and Teletrac Navman have announced a co-hosted webinar on top electronic logging device industry questions.
The hour-long webinar, titled The FMCSA Answers Your Top Industry Questions, will cover topics like ELD exemptions, how to resolve non-compliant devices and what to expect after soft enforcement ends on April 1.
The webinar will feature Bill Mahorney, division chief at the FMCSA and Oswaldo Flores, safety and compliance product manager at Teletrac Navman. It is aimed at providing valuable information to fleets whether they've implemented ELDs or are currently in the installation process.
The webinar is scheduled for 11-12 p.m. Pacific Daylight Time on March 12. Click here to register.
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...Read the rest of this storyThe 2018 TCA Annual Convention is taking place from March 25-58 in Kissimmee, Fla.
">Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administrator Ray Martinez will give an address at the 80th Truckload Carriers Association Annual Convention in March.
Martinez has spent his career working for the government on transportation safety and was recently sworn into office by Secretary of Transportation Elaine Chao.
TCA will offer attendees the opportunity to interact with FMCSA leadership and learn about the current agency's activities and its potential impact on the future of the trucking industry.
TCA's 2018 Annual Convention will be held March 25-28 at the Gaylord Palms Resort & Convention Center in Kissimmee, Fla. The theme of this year's convention is the Future of Truckload.
The event will feature panelist discussions of safety, managing a business, hiring the right people, and educational sessions on subjects like retention, practices of successful trucking companies, and new technologies like blockchain.
One session will feature a discussion on the ELD mandate and what has been learned in the 90 days since it was implemented. Topics of the talk will include operating efficiently and effectively with ELDs, the rule's impact on CSA scores, legal and compliance issues, and operational pitfalls that have arisen as a result of the mandate.
The convention will also feature more than 100 companies exhibiting products and services aimed ait improving productivity and profitability.
For more information on the event, click here.
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The American Transportation Research Institute is asking for data from motor carriers to assess the impact of e-commerce on the trucking industry.
The data is being collected through a brief online questionnaire that seeks to capture how the emergence of e-commerce has changed industry business models and operations. The results of the data collection will be compiled and analyzed for ATRI's report on e-commerce and the trucking Industry.
ATRI hopes to gain quantifiable insight into how the trucking industry has adapted to growing e-commerce activity. ATRI expects the research to provide carriers with an understanding of how the industry has responded to structural shifts in the relationships between consumers, businesses, and logistics.
Motor carriers are encouraged to provide data, confidentially, through ATRI's survey by Friday, April 6, 2018. The survey is available online at TruckingResearch.org.
Respondents who submit completed surveys by the deadline are eligible for entry in a raffle to win one of five $100 gift cards and will receive an advance copy of the "Impacts of E-Commerce on the Trucking Industry" report. The results of this study will be available later this year.
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...Read the rest of this storyAmerican Airlines Flight 930 was delayed 27 hours after its pilot allegedly attacked a female gate agent. The incident took place on Wednesday evening in Sao Paulo, Brazil, before the flight was set to depart for Miami, Florida. The pilot was arrested and reportedly faces up to a year in prison.
