Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance’s 72-hour safety blitz, “Road Check”, is scheduled for June 7-9, 2011. Roadcheck is the largest targeted enforcement program on commercial vehicles in the world, with an average of 14 trucks or buses being inspected every minute from Canada to Mexico during a 72-hour period. Each year, approximately 10,000 CVSA-certified local, state, provincial and federal inspectors at 1,500 locations across North America perform the truck and bus inspections.
CVSA sponsors Roadcheck with participation by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, Pipeline and Hazardous
Materials Safety Administration, Canadian Council of Motor Transport Administrators, Transport Canada, and the Secretariat
of Communications and Transportation (Mexico).
http://www.landlinemag.com/todays_news/Daily/2011/May11/052311/052711-06.shtml
Source: http://fastertruck.com/news/7/USA-Inspection-Sting-Operation-Code-Named-RoadCheck-Begins-6%252d7%252d11.html
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If you fail hair test will it keep you from getting another job with a different company even if you pass the urine test?
Source: http://www.thetruckersreport.com/truckingindustryforum/us-xpress/177381-if-you-passed-urine-test-but.html
Cargo Control
United Parcel Service last week reported net income of $970 million for the first quarter, up 6% from a net profit of $915 million in the year-ago period, on a 4.4% increase in revenue to $13.14 billion.
Source: http://www.topix.com/business/trucking/2012/04/ups-first-quarter-profit-rises-6?fromrss=1
Cargo Safety
The U.S. Senate’s bailout of the faltering Postal Service just postpones reforms and restructuring that have to take place.
Source: http://www.topix.com/business/trucking/2012/04/editorial-postal-bailout-a-dead-letter?fromrss=1
Cargo Control
At first glance, the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee?s four-year surface transportation bill contains some wins for small-business trucking, but will those be enough to overcome possible deal breakers such as longer and heavier trucks on federal highways? Here?s a look inside the bill. OOIDA leadership continues to review the contents of the 700-plus page bill.
Source: http://www.landlinemag.com/Story.aspx?StoryID=22128
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