Indiana’s War on Truckers

Posted by Rickey Gooch at 3:24pm

This week it seems that every call I have had or meeting I have attended either began with or ended with the state of trucking matters in Indiana. I would have to say that from my conversations with drivers, carriers and Indiana law enforcement that for some unknown reason the state of Indiana is in the midst of a trucking feeding frenzy.

When the FMCSA rules were released Indiana looked at them and ...

The VOLPE Center Speaks

A little less than 24 hours ago I posed what I felt was a serious problem with the way a driver was written-up, while stopped on a roadside in Texas by a DOT officer, to the VOLPE Center who handles DataQ issues.
At 1:30 today I receive a call from Jonathan Mozenter from the VOLPE Center. Jonathan explains his roll to me as one of the program developers of CSA. His department did not deal with the regulations of CSA but more of the distribution of the ...