More safety oversight needed on Mexican truckers: OIG

WASHINGTON -- U.S. officials still need to do a better job in regulating safety standards on Mexican truckers that cross the border, according to the nation's top government watchdog.

US DOT to forge ahead with texting ban for truckers

WASHINGTON -- Drive-by-texting will likely be illegal soon enough for truckers in the U.S.

10-axle trucks OKed for Alberta forestry sector

GRANDE PRAIRIE, Alta. -- An Alberta log hauler is reportedly the first carrier in Canada to be allowed to run nine and 10-axle trucks in the province.

Weight of winter hits Sask next week

REGINA -- The winter season, more specifically the winter weight season, for truckers hauling in Saskatchewan will officially kick off on Dec. 1.

CVSA’s safe driver campaign has mixed results

WASHINGTON -- The Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance's (CVSA) annual Operation Safe Driver education and enforcement blitz last year saw improvements in both drivers and vehicles regarding the number of out-of-service (OOS) violations and citations issued per roadside commercial vehicle safety inspection.

No basis for shorter HOS; Trucks safer than ever says ATA

ARLINGTON, Va. -- Just a few months after special interest groups convinced the U.S. DOT to rewrite hours of service rules because truckers supposedly weren't safe enough, the industry posted the largest ever year-to-year drop in truck-involved fatalities.

Best and deadliest U.S. roads ranked

NEW YORK -- America's "Best Roads" tend to be situated more in central U.S.-Midwest regions, according to Reader's Digest, while some of the worst are in the southeast corner of the country.

Anti-truck sentiment litters B.C. highway

KAMLOOPS, B.C. -- After a handful of recent accidents on Highway 5A, a B.C. politician is looking to get truckers banned from the stretch of road between Merritt and Kamloops.

CVSA Roadcheck blitz begins

TORONTO -- Drive carefully this weekend. Truck cops will be out in full force across North America for the annual 72-hour Roadcheck safety blitz.

OTA Chair: Time to deep-six pay-per-mile

TORONTO -- The per-mile system of paying truck drivers is outmoded and has to go -- or at least change drastically.

U.S. to ban double-decker horse trailers

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- It might soon be illegal to stack horses in double-decker trailers for transport on American interstates.

Senate bill would require EOBRs on trucks

WASHINGTON, D.C. - A bipartisan bill tabled in the U.S. Senate could kick-start a mandatory electronic on-board recorder rulemaking that for years has been stuck in the regulatory gears of the U.S. Dept. of Transportation.

Tory MP pumps up the trailer-trash-talk

PETERBOROUGH, Ont. -- Conservative MP Dean Del Mastro seems determined to remain a speed bump in Ontario's road to LCV progress.

To CB or not to CB?

CALGARY -- In Alberta that's still the question. There continues to be some ambiguities with the legislation the province passed last month

How a 34-hr reset can turn into 54 off-duty hours

TORONTO -- The DOT's proposed amendment to the 34-hour restart provision was glossed over by many at first as the possibility of cutting allowable driving hours garnered much of the attention.