Report finds higher hours-of-service violation rates since 2020 revisions

WASHINGTON — Adding flexibility to truck driver hours-of-service regulations in 2020 may have reduced road safety, based on data compiled by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration. FMCSA compared HOS inspection and large-truck crash data from two years before the revisions went into effect on Sept. 29, 2020, and a year after the effective date….

US lifting vaccine mandate at Canadian, Mexican borders

The Biden administration announced vaccine requirements for truck drivers based in Canada and Mexico will end Friday, a move that could allow thousands of truckers to resume cross-border freight movements.  The U.S. border vaccine mandate for foreign drivers began in January 2022. Canada ended its own border vaccination requirements in October. The U.S. Department of…

Wall Street sours on ATSG freighter spend during cargo slowdown

Cargo-focused Air Transport Services Group blamed disappointing first-quarter results on slower business at its charter passenger airline Omni Air and warned that persistent inflation, which is driving up costs for maintenance and travel for flight crews shuttling between assignments, would dampen expected profits for the year. On the positive side, utilization of the cargo fleet…