An important consideration as to the standard of the rules and regulations that control the drivers of fleet vehicles across the country is that they need regular reviews to ensure that it meets the current needs of the drivers and keep up the safety on the highways. It is important that while many drivers are highly skilled, the wages seem to fall. This means drivers are working longer hours to ensure they have sufficient money to pay the bills that they face.

A worrying statistic is the increase in the value of goods that are stolen from Moving Trucks. Protecting trucks against this crime is extremely difficult, due to the nature of the moving business. But what is important as a business, is that you are protected as best you can.

This conference was hailed a success, there were presentations from a number of different organizations including the FMCSA, the California Moving & Storage Association and American Transportation Research Institute. This three day event was well attended by those in the moving industry, who were keen to learn of new developments, in a variety of different topics. These topics included the most up to date technology devices available in the removal business.

As with all cases of fraud, the FMCSA has taken action against those movers that have failed to provide the service that they charged customers for. It has been found that these companies, which are situated in Florida, South Carolina and Maryland, have failed their customers and have therefore shut down five companies because of their bad practice.

In our last post we noted how the daily wear and tear of America’s leading bridges are in turn becoming high-risk threats for collapse. In this post, we will continue to discuss briefly some failed attempts at increasing the gas/diesel taxes to help pay for the safety and restoration of these bridges, as well as our roads. Additionally we look a little deeper into what present measures are being taken by both the road departments, and even our nation’s tractor-trailer drivers.

A great majority of our nation’s bridges are beginning to show their wear and tear as they find themselves caught in the middle of a direct aging process. The moving industry uses these bridges every day, which poses a significant concern. With the recent bridge collapses over the past few years, we must begin to consider active repair on the bridges that are so heavily traveled, particularly by tractor-trailer drivers carrying significantly heavy loads.