Dear Member:A few months back I received a call from a man who identified himself as the person in charge of bridges in New York City. He indicated that in the state legislature there was a lobbying effort to pass a state law requiring the...
Below are two dozen nuggets of wisdom related to The Green New Deal – they certainly pose some interesting questions and concerns about the rabid race to eliminate fossil fuels and carbon to save the planet. Meanwhile, wouldn’t you know it, Communist China still burns...
For Immediate Release: June 28, 2024Washington, D.C. - At an oversight hearing with Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg yesterday, Republican Members of the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee called into question various policies and priorities of the Biden Administration’s Department of Transportation (DOT), including regulatory proposals such...
Article Website: https://norton.house.gov/media/press-releases/norton-ezell-introduce-bipartisan-bill-strengthen-consumer-protections-againstNORTON, EZELL INTRODUCE BIPARTISAN BILL TO STRENGTHEN CONSUMER PROTECTIONS AGAINST FRAUD INVOLVING RESIDENTIAL MOVING COMPANIESMay 22, 2024Press ReleaseWASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) and Congressman Mike Ezell (R-MS) today introduced a bipartisan bill to equip the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration...
FMCSA Removes Two Devices from List of Registered ELDsWASHINGTON – Today, the U.S. Department of Transportation Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) removed BLUE STAR ELD and ELD MANDATE PLUS devices from the list of registered Electronic Logging Devices (ELD). FMCSA placed these ELDs on...
I’m writing this article on May 16, 2024, which just happens to be NASTC’s 35th birthday.Someday I’ll try to recapture the highs and lows of the past 3 ½ decades, but as I told Buster Anderson, my founding partner during those early years: “Keep the...
There are many questions being asked today about quality control and Boeing. Mechanical issues and defects that never seemed to happen before are becoming the “new normal” these days and the theory I hear most is that this trend is directly related to hiring practices...
Statement for the RecordNational Association of Small Trucking CompaniesU.S. House Committee on Transportation and InfrastructureSubcommittee on Highways and Transit“It’s Electric: A Review of Fleet Electrification Efforts”April 30, 2024The National Association of Small Trucking Companies (NASTC) applauds the subcommittee for holding this hearing on the Biden...
Freight fraud is plaguing the trucking industry. Fraud and theft of trucked and brokered freight hauling takes many forms. Fraud perpetrators and criminal enterprises against trucking and brokerage account for an estimated 3,500 instances annually—a figure that understates actual occurrences.Freight fraud schemes range from simply...
Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration1200 New Jersey Avenue, S.E.Washington, D.C. 20590RE: Request for Comments on Appeal Process: Requests for Data Review (Docket No. FMCSA-2023-0190) To whom it may concern:The National Association of Small Trucking Companies (NASTC), which represents some 15,000 small-business commercial motor carriers, is...
