The Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance has petitioned federal regulators to amend a rule related to the requirement for motor carriers to return inspection reports to the issuing agency certifying that all violations have been corrected. Currently, 49 Code of Federal Regulations Part 396.9(d)(3) requires that motor carriers and intermodal equipment providers return inspection reports to the issuing agency within 15 days of issuance, certifying that all necessary repairs have been made. The regulation also requires that carriers and intermodal equipment providers retain a copy of the report at ..read more

Will Cook waits for his hours of service to start at a rest area on I-70 west of St. Louis in May of 2022. Cook is also the founder of America Without Drivers. The grassroots organization is focused on the jobs and safety-related issues associated with driverless trucks.Unless otherwise noted, all photos and their captions by James Year A photo exhibit chronicling working truckers in the face of unprecedented technological change is currently on display at the Newhouse School of Public Communications on the campus of Syracuse University in Syracuse, New York. The exhibit, entitled “Stealing Fi ..read more

Trucking news and briefs for Tuesday, April 16, 2024: AB 5 appeal takes injunction request back to the Ninth Circuit Following a California district court judge last month ruling against trucking groups' attempt to block the AB 5 independent contractor classification law’s applicability to trucking, on April 12, the California Trucking Association and Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association each filed appeals to the Ninth Circuit Court. The appeals court was the one that, in April 2021, reversed a previous injunction that had been in place exempting the trucking industry from ..read more

I-75's notorious Ice Pick Bandit has struck again, this time in Turner County, Georgia, hitting a truck and trailer's tires and cutting its brake lines as well. "One of my owner operators had his trailer lines cut and 11 tires punctured in Sycamore, Georgia, at the southbound rest area" at mile marker 78, said a representative from Southern Pride Trucking. The attack occurred in the early morning hours of Tuesday, April 2, while the driver "was parked overnight on an exit ramp. He did make a police report to authorities in Georgia."   Like the majority of other known cases, it h ..read more

Will Cook waits for his hours of service to start at a rest area on I-70 west of St. Louis in May of 2022. Cook is also the founder of America Without Drivers. The grassroots organization is focused on the jobs and safety-related issues associated with driverless trucks.Unless otherwise noted, all photos and their captions by James Year A photo exhibit chronicling working truckers in the face of unprecedented technological change is currently on display at the Newhouse School of Public Communications on the campus of Syracuse University in Syracuse, New York. The exhibit, entitled “Stealing Fi ..read more

Trucking news and briefs for Monday, April 15, 2024: Volvo opens order book for revamped VNL Volvo Trucks is holding immersive dealer and customer launch events throughout the summer at the Volvo Trucks Customer Center in Dublin, Virginia. The Volvo Trucks Customer Center includes a customer experience track, recently expanded to three miles, offering a fully immersive driving experience of the full range of Volvo trucks.Volvo Trucks Sales have officially started for the all-new Volvo VNL, a revamped truck the company noted is “90% new.” Since the announcement of the revamped Volvo VNL model i ..read more

Owner-operator John Whirley pulls a dry van regionally in the Southeast with this 2016 International LoneStar. The rig is powered by a Cummins ISX15 with an Eaton 10-speed. [Related: Aircraft hauler's '99 Peterbilt 379] Click here to see more photos of reader uploads or to submit your own.  For custom-equipment features delivered to your email inbox, subscribe to Overdrive's weekly Custom Rigs newsletter via this link ..read more

“Like the old phrase, all good things come to an end -- this is one of them.” --Nancy Kutschenreuter, Waupun Truck-N-Show vice president That’s right. One of the mainstays on the truck show circuit is coming to an end after the 35th iteration of the show this year. The Waupun Truck-N-Show, one of the oldest truck shows in the country, will be held Aug. 9-10 in Waupun, Wisconsin, in what show organizers are calling “Our Last Ride Thru Waupun.” Kutschenreuter, who has been part of the show for 27 of its 35 years, said the organizers are all getting older and looking to retire. “It’s a nonprofi ..read more

Trucking news and briefs for Friday, April 12, 2024: Fleet seeks expansion of waiver for alternative steel coil securement method Delta, Ohio-based K&L Trucking is petitioning the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration to expand an existing exemption that allows the company to use an alternative steel coil securement method in its operations. In December 2020, FMCSA granted a five-year waiver to the 15-truck fleet that allows its trucks to transport coils from North Star Blue Scope Steel to Fulton County Processing -- which are less than two miles apart -- using the alternative secure ..read more

Trucking news and briefs for Thursday, April 11, 2024: Ohio Turnpike revamps toll collection system Toll gates are now open for E-ZPass customers along the turnpike to modernize the toll collection system.Ohio Turnpike and Infrastructure Commission The Ohio Turnpike and Infrastructure Commission this week implemented a new toll collection system. “The modernization of the toll collection system has been a long, challenging, and complex project," said Ferzan M. Ahmed, P.E., executive director of the turnpike commission. "But the moment we have anticipated -- following meticulous testing of the ..read more