Highway Motor Carrier Newsletter Topics
January 6, 2003 Newsletter
Annual Membership Meeting reminder.
Conference files FOIA request with FMCSA to obtain key study performed by ICF on cost and benefits of hours-of-service options.
Highway reauthorization legislation may include significant fuel tax increase.
U.S. Supreme Court to review punitive damage guidelines.
December 4, 2002 Newsletter
FMCSA Administrator Clapp departing in December and new truck driver hours-of-service proposals may be published next year.
Teamsters retain consultants to review Central States Pension Fund financials.
Random drug testing survey of membership shows low rate of positives . and Association will seek next year to reduce 50 percent testing rate.
Truckload Carriers Association petitions DOT to eliminate financial reporting requirement for carriers, but agency lacks authority to grant request.
Accessorial charges are an important part of allocating costs to customers and shipments.
November 19, 2002 Newsletter
Annual Membership Meeting to be held January 19 - 22, 2003 in Phoenix, Arizona at the Sheraton Wild Horse Pass Resort & Spa. Our keynote speaker, Sue Hershkowitz-Coore, will explain how to build lasting business and personal relationships and the keys to effective communication skills.
A panel representing some of the key engine and truck manufacturers - from Caterpillar Engine, Cummins Engine, Mack Trucks and International Engine - will provide straight talk about the new 2002 lower emission engines and trucks, as well as the progress being made, and challenges ahead, for the 2007 engines.
John Weiss of Credit Exchange will address how their customer data bases allow you to effectively evaluate customer payment histories to reduce your accounts receivables, enhance your cash flow, and reduce uncollectible accounts or costly collection activities.
The latest in effective freight weight and classification monitoring programs used by LTL carriers will be addressed by a carrier panel. If you are not doing this now, you are losing significant revenue that you’re entitled to on existing shipments.
In addition, there will an economic forecast for the coming year, as well as federal DOT representative - Joseph Clapp, Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administrator (invited) - to discuss how the free market, and not so free regulatory market, will impact you.
Supreme Court rules in favor of Yellow Corporation, finding state of Michigan violated the law by altering its reciprocity agreements under the single state insurance registration program.
Carriers should avoid agreeing to indemnification and hold harmless clauses presented in transportation contracts by shippers.
Distribution & LTL Carriers Association is surveying membership on drug testing costs to reduce random testing rates from 50 percent to 10 percent.
October 23, 2002 Newsletter
Congress adjourns without passing 11 appropriation bills, including DOT funding.
Single state insurance registration replacement program now set for legislative action after state DOT representatives and private carrier association endorse ATA proposal.
Meaningful tort reform requires state-by-state legislative action focusing on joint and several liability, punitive damage caps, guidelines on subjective pain and suffering awards, and proportional liability issues.
Drug and alcohol tests show low usage by professional truck drivers.
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