Deborah Lockridge

1 week ago | truckinginfo.com | Deborah Lockridge

I first wrote about truck driver fatigue and the problems that come from disrupting circadian rhythms more than 30 years ago. Yet driver fatigue is still a problem, as evident in the National Transportation Safety Board’s May meeting discussing results of its investigation into a fatal bus-truck crash at a Highland, Illinois, rest area in 2023. This is an opinion column reflecting the author's viewpoint. In this case, the fatigued driver was behind the wheel of a bus rather than a truck.

2 weeks ago | truckinginfo.com | Deborah Lockridge

President Trump is expected to sign Congressional resolutions to pull back the Environmental Protection Agency waiver for California emissions rules that were phasing out internal-combustion-powered cars and trucks and tightening diesel emissions limits in the meantime.

2 weeks ago | truckinginfo.com | Deborah Lockridge

May 21, 2025 Bookmark + Tammie Dean has an advantage when recruiting and mentoring women drivers at Lily Transportation: She’s experienced life on the road as a female driver. On this episode of HDT Talks Trucking, HDT's Deborah Lockridge talks to Tammie about an initiative she started to help recruit and support women drivers, called Lily Ladies.

2 weeks ago | truckinginfo.com | Deborah Lockridge

Promising to end the “plague of bad actors” in trucking, Transportation Secretary Sean P. Duffy signed an order officially rescinding previous FMCSA guidance on enforcing requirements for English proficiency for drivers.

3 weeks ago | truckinginfo.com | Deborah Lockridge

When you think about your trucking operation’s Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration safety scores, you’re likely thinking about how to reduce truck crashes and violations, improve driver safety and truck maintenance, even about your entire safety culture. What you might not realize is the damage outdated data about your fleet in the DOT system can do to those scores, even if you’re doing everything else right.