Highway traffic congestion is not only time consuming, it’s extremely expensive.

A new study released by the American Transportation Research Institute (ATRI) on April 19th, showed that the snail’s pace drivers encounter almost daily on the nation’s highways is taking its toll on commercial drivers and their wallets.....

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) may add a new Behavior Analysis and Safety Improvement Category (BASIC) category to its Compliance Safety Accountability (CSA) program in order to implement a “Beyond Compliance” system that rewards motor carriers that go above and beyond mandatory compliance....

The annual edition of Large Truck and Bus Crash Facts, has been released by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration for 2014. Except for selected crash statistics on passenger vehicles presented for comparison purposes, the report is exclusively descriptive of statistics about fatal crashes, crashes resulting in injuries, and property damage-only crashes, involving large trucks and buses in 2014....

The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) Highway and Motor Carrier (HMC) Section, and the Bus Industry Safety Council (BISC), have collaborated to create a security guidance publication to enhance security awareness throughout the transportation industry....

Technology marches on, bringing new ways for trucking companies to save money on their operations, but nearly half of respondents in a new survey say they are unaware of the savings achieved by incorporating new fleet technologies....

After several revisions of the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) driver medical exam forms, final versions of the MCSA-5875 report form and the MCSA-5876 Examiner’s Certificate are required for all driver exams as of April 20, 2016....

A recent report from the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO) has determined that an increasing number of state departments of transportation are using drones for infrastructure inspections and data collection, resulting in a direct, bottom line result of cost and time savings....

The American Transportation Research Institute is seeking input from commercial truck drivers for an online survey dealing with several issues related to sleep apnea. The “Understanding the Impacts of Sleep Apnea on Commercial Drivers” survey results will be integrated with other existing sleep apnea and driver fatigue data, and then examined by leading sleep apnea experts....