Fleet Management News & Business Info | Commercial Carrier Journal
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JOURNAL NEWS 8 COMMERCIAL CARRIER JOURNAL | JULY 2014 t 5IF'FEFSBM.PUPS$BSSJFS4BGFUZ"ENJOJTUSBUJPO in June announced a delayed timeline for its rule to mandate speed limiters in heavy trucks. The agency now expects to publish the proposed rule Oct. 23, a three-week postponement from its estimated Oct. 1 publication date issued in May. FMCSA has not commented on its proposed mandated speed limit. t %SJWFSTDBSSZJOHMJWFTUPDLreceived a yearlong exemption from the 30-minute break requirement of the hours-of-service rule "to ensure the well-being of the nation's livestock during interstate transportation," the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration announced June 6 via a Federal Register notice. The exemption builds on the 90-day waiver granted to livestock haulers last summer after the National Pork Producers Council petitioned FMCSA. t 5SBOT'PSDF (CCJ Top 250, No. 8) of Saint-Laurent, Quebec, agreed to acquire Eagan, Minn.-based dry van truckload car- rier Transport America (No. 65) from Goldner Hawn Johnson & Morrison for $310 million. t $POXBZ5SVDLMPBEordered 550 new tractors, 540 of which will be equipped with automatic transmissions and all with 6x4 axles, as part of the Joplin, Mo.-based company's replacement cycle for its 2,700-tractor fleet. t -PWFT5SBWFM4UPQT debuted Love's Financial, a factoring ser- vice designed to help drivers manage their business and cash flow through flexible cash management products with lower transaction fees. Love's pays its customers within 24 hours or less of delivering a freight load. Drivers can factor with Love's remotely or at any Love's that offers Transflo Express. t 5IF64%FQBSUNFOUPG-BCPSordered Iowa-based Absolute Waste Removal to pay a driver $123,203 in back wages and pen- alties and to reinstate him after the department's Occupational Safety and Health Administration found the carrier violated fed- eral retaliation laws. The driver refused to drive early last year, cit- ing what he called unsafe procedures implemented by Absolute Waste Removal. The company fired him in February 2013. t 5IF0IJP4VQSFNF$PVSUaffirmed the death sentence of trucker Calvin Neyland Jr., 50, of Toledo, who was convicted for the 2007 murders of his supervisor at Pennsylvania-based Liberty Transportation and the company's safety director during a meet- ing where he was to be fired following a series of violations. INBRIEF 7/14 Text INFO to or visit XXXDDKEJHJUBMDPNJOGP