USDOT Agency Nixes Upgraded Rear Impact Guards
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) last month rejected that the agency mandate stricter upgrades to rear impact guards on semi-trailers.
Latest ICSA Safety Awards
Independent Carrier Safety Association recognizes its safest members with quarterly safety awards for the top three single-truck operators and the top three small fleets. We are pleased to congratulate these winners for the second quarter of 2022:
Fleets
- 1st Place: The Josiah Co., Richmond, TX
- 2nd Place: ASAP Trucking, LLC, Atlanta, TX
- 3rd Place: Shana Investments, LLC, Moreno Valley, CA
Single Truck Operators
- 1st Place: ELH Logistics, Southfield, MI
- 2nd Place: MDS Enterprise, Inc., Charlotte, NC
- 3rd Place: Lysander Transport, Homestead, FL
First place winners receive a $500 gift card and an ICSA-branded scale model truck, while 2nd and 3rd place winners receive some very nice and useful ICSA-branded prizes. ICSA selects safety award winners based on these criteria:
- ICSA membership dues paid up and an active member profile set up in safecarriers.org
- SmartDrive camera(s) installed and active
- SmartDrive score under 50 for the quarter
- Enrolled in ICSA’s approved drug testing consortium and hair testing completed
- No claims
Congratulations to our 2nd Quarter safety award winners!
What We Have Learned About Trucking After Hurricanes
Hurricane Katrina in 2005, and now Hurricane Helene in 2024, with Milton bearing down on the Gulf Coast! Major storms, with major disaster areas and the need for emergency supplies, most of which come by truck.
FMCSA Proposing New Online Registration System
FMCSA is hard at work on a new online registration system, to “improve the transparency and efficiency of FMCSA’s registration procedures”.