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Selected COVID-19 and trucking industry news that may impact your business. As of June 5, 2020: Truckload freight recovery picks up speed heading into June AJOT Spot truckload freight markets continued to gather momentum last week as load-to-truck ratios increased for dry van, refrigerated, and flatbed freight, said DAT Solutions, which operates the industry’s largest

Selected COVID-19 and trucking industry news that may impact your business. As of June 3, 2020: FMCSA Issues Additional Waiver in Response to COVID-19 Scopelitis Transportation Consulting On June 1, FMCSA issued an additional waiver in response to the COVID-19 public health emergency to avoid a shortage of available intermodal chassis. This latest waiver allows

Selected COVID-19 and trucking industry news that may impact your business. As of May 22, 2020: Carrier optimism soars as freight volume ticks upward and drivers come back to work CCJMore than 45% of fleets responding to a CCJ survey that measures the coronavirus’ impact on motor carriers said they expect to see an increase freight levels over the

Selected COVID-19 and trucking industry news that may impact your business. As of May 21, 2020: How States Are Relaxing Truck Weight Rules During COVID-19 Law360 States across the country that have emergency declarations in response to COVID-19 are temporarily changing weight requirements for commercial motor vehicles. Carriers and drivers interested in providing services should

Selected COVID-19 and trucking industry news that may impact your business. As of May 20, 2020: FMCSA Issues COVID-19 Related Notice on Off-site Compliance Reviews & Safety Ratings Scopelitis Transportation Consulting On May 19, 2020, FMCSA issued a notice to the public explaining that, during the COVID-19 emergency, it will issue safety ratings to motor

Selected COVID-19 and trucking industry news that may impact your business. As of May 19, 2020: CVSA’s Operation Safe Driver Week to proceed as scheduled July 12-18 The Trucker The Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance’s (CVSA) 2020 Operation Safe Driver Week will go on as scheduled, July 12-18, according to a May 12 statement. During the weeklong traffic-enforcement

Selected COVID-19 and trucking industry news that may impact your business. As of May 18, 2020: Container import roller coaster: down, up, down … up? American Shipper U.S. container imports are certainly on a wild ride. The numbers plunged after the initial coronavirus outbreak in Wuhan, China. They briefly bounced back when delayed bookings were loaded after China came

Selected COVID-19 and trucking industry news that may impact your business. As of May 15, 2020: How Fleets Can Mitigate Impact of Coronavirus Transport Topics FTR does not expect the economy to recover to pre-crisis freight volumes until the middle of next year. “While we would be the first to concede that we cannot be

Selected COVID-19 and trucking industry news that may impact your business. As of May 14, 2020: FMCSA Extends Emergency Declaration Through June 14, 2020. Scopelitis Transportation Consulting, Overdrive On May 13, 2020 the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration granted an extension to the existing Expanded Emergency Declaration citing the continued Presidentially declared COVID-19 national emergency