Fleet Management News & Business Info | Commercial Carrier Journal
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14 COMMERCIAL CARRIER JOURNAL | SEPTEMBER 2016 JOURNAL NEWS • The American Transportation Research Institute is coordinating an Integrated Corridor Management program with the U.S. Department of Transportation designed to address traffic congestion along major U.S. corridors. After an April report from ATRI that found congestion cost the trucking industry nearly $50 bil- lion in 2014, the groups are tackling the problem by developing an ICM program to promote integrated and proactive man- agement of existing infrastructure by both the private and public sector. • The Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance set Oct. 16-22 as the dates for its annual nationwide Operation Safe Driver Week traffic safety enforcement and education blitz. During the 2015 campaign, more than 21,000 vehicles were pulled over, and more than 19,000 roadside inspections were conducted on commercial vehicles. • The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration last month launched an "Our Roads, Our Responsibility" campaign aimed at raising public awareness of how to drive around large trucks and buses. • Truckstop.com teamed with cargo theft prevention firm CargoNet to provide alerts of theft instances and fraudulent activity reports to Truckstop. com users. The partnership aims to curb cargo theft by giving Truckstop.com members access to theft alerts derived from CargoNet's well of data. CargoNet will provide weekly cargo theft inci- dent summaries and offer incentives to Truckstop.com members who also wish to be CargoNet members. • Buffalo Lake, Minn.-based Kottke Trucking Inc., a 175-truck refrigerated and dry van hauler, purchased Walbon & Co. Inc.'s over-the-road operations, including its routes, trucks, trailers and a terminal in Wildwood, Fla. Terms were not disclosed. • Aim Integrated Logistics announced a third-party logistics division that initially will focus on freight brokerage, with ser- vice offerings such as truckload broker- age, expedited services and specialized hauling. • Tank hauling carrier Neier Inc. was ordered to pay nearly $200,000 in back pay, punitive and compensatory damages and attorney's fees after the company fired driver Michael Butler for refusing to accept a load the trucker said would have put him in violation of fed- eral hours-of-service limits. Neier also was ordered to reinstate Butler in the July 29 ruling by administrative law Judge Alice Craft for the U.S. Department of Labor, who found Neier in violation of Surface Transportation Assistance Act laws pro- tecting drivers from retaliation. • The Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission last month announced a 6 percent toll increase for both E-ZPass and cash-paying travelers beginning Jan. 8, 2017. Drivers of Class 8 five-axle trucks traveling across the state on the Turnpike from the Ohio entrance to the New Jersey exit will see an E-ZPass increase from $231.87 to $245.78 and a cash increase from $322.90 to $342.27. INBRIEF 9/16 Distracted and drowsy driving are the top causes of major collisions and cost for fl eets, yet they often go undetected, untracked, and unaddressed. Learn how the Lytx DriveCam™ safety program with the ActiveVision SM service can help you prevent distracted and drowsy driving at Lytx.com/DistractedDriving © 2016 Lytx, Inc. All rights reserved. TACKLE DISTRACTED DRIVING HEAD-ON Real-time data, delivering real-time safety. Untitled-2 1 8/3/16 3:24 PM