Different organizations are coming together to ask for stability for the Highway Trust Fund, to ensure that the infrastructure has the ability to grow and develop over the coming years. This is a direct message to congress in the hope they will listen. Sixty-two groups including the AMSA are voicing their support for the fund to ensure business growth.

It is a time consuming job for moving businesses to find drivers with the correct training to drive the fleet vehicles. It is something that businesses need to constantly try and find, trained drivers in a field where positions are always vacant. However, this is about to change. A new proposal from Congress will soon help drivers train.

It is important that if an accident occurs there is adequate money in the monies claimed to pay for all expenses, including adequate medical care. Unfortunately, the view of the FMCSA in their latest report presented to Congress indicated that the limits were set too low.

A quick look at moving news across the country. In this installment, we look at an interesting piece of news from the state of Kentucky. The expectations of a piece of Legislation to pass the Kentucky General Assembly in this coming year are still looming in the air. The effect of this would in turn throw out the existing law which allows household goods moving companies (already in existence) to be encouraged to “block” any new companies from entering their state. The push for this new law was to put it into effect in early 2013.

Congress Members Ask FMCSA to Wait for the Hours of Service Rules until Court’s Verdict Members of the Congress focused on the transportation industry recently requested the FMCSA to hold the implementation of the latest hours-of-service regulation until the resolution of the current lawsuit pending between the FMCSA and the American Trucking Associations (ATA). The […]