Jami Jones

1 week ago | landline.media | Jami Jones

Increasing truck weights is simply a bad idea, according to the executive director of the National Association of County Engineers. “If you want to put heavier trucks on the roads and the bridges, you’re asking for some sort of catastrophe at some point,” Kevan Stone told Land Line Now in a recent interview. Stone said that proposals such as increasing the maximum truck weight to 91,000 pounds raise safety concerns.

1 month ago | landline.media | Jami Jones

In a depressed freight market, with rates in the gutter, motor carriers are cutting all kinds of corners, sacrificing highway safety in the meantime. The situation is multi-faceted with a number of avenues being utilized to put cheap labor in the seats of trucks, oftentimes lacking compliance with the English-proficiency regulation. What is the English-proficiency regulation? For starters, here is the actual regulation, with emphasis added:§ 391.11 General qualifications of drivers.

Nov 22, 2024 | landline.media | Jami Jones

Since December 2010, motor carriers have been subjected to a Safety Measurement System that has taken on new names and been updated from time to time. Problem is, the end result has changed very little. That remains true with the latest unveiling of proposed updates to the CSA Safety Measurement System by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration on Wednesday, Nov. 20. The agency is looking to change nine different approaches to the CSA/SMS methodology.

Nov 20, 2024 | landline.media | Jami Jones

We’ve all seen it either in real life or at least on television – some angry, bordering on unhinged individual throwing wild punches in a fit of rage, hitting nothing. It’s comical to watch. And we’re seeing a reaction like that to the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration’s newly released proposed broker transparency rule. In short, the proposal shores up existing regulations already on the books.

Sep 19, 2024 | landline.media | Jami Jones

A crash between a tractor-trailer and a “party bus” in the early morning of Dec. 16, 2022, prompted the National Transportation Safety Board to recommend more technology on trucks.