Jill DunnBusinessCalifornia mileage tax bill awaits governor’s signatureCalifornia Gov. Jerry Brown has received legislation that would make California the third West Coast state to test replacing state fuel tax with a vehicle-miles-traveled fee.September 17, 2014BusinessTeamsters win first vote at Con-wayThe Teamsters had its first success at Con-way after drivers and dock workers at the company’s Laredo, Texas, terminal voted 55-49 to join the union. The Sept. 12 vote marked the first time employees at one of the transportation and logistics company’s 500 locations join the Teamsters. In California, the union has filed to organize […]September 17, 2014BusinessWork fatalities in trucking industry fell 8 percent in 2013, DOL report saysPreliminary data from the U.S. Department of Labor shows 461 fatalities occurred in 2013 among private sector trucking jobs — an 8 percent drop from the previous year.September 15, 2014BusinessOwner-operators’ suit against out-of-state users fees gets class-action statusNew York has granted class-action certification to the Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association’s lawsuit against the state-required registration and decal fees for out-of-state trucks.September 10, 2014BusinessStudy: Fuel efficiency efforts pay off for carriersAn exhaustive study of major fleets concluded fuel costs were reduced an annual $7,200 per truck through fuel-efficient products and practices.September 8, 2014BusinessOwner-op challenging Ontario’s truck speed limiter lawThe Court of Appeals for Ontario has agreed to hear a challenge to province’s speed limiters law. The next step will be for the province’s highest court to schedule oral arguments before a three-judge panel.August 25, 2014BusinessFormer FMCSA employee sentenced in tax refund schemeA federal judge has sentenced a former Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration employee to 15 months in prison and ordered $546,785 in restitution for participating in a tax refund conspiracy.August 18, 2014BusinessCourt rules Prime’s same-sex trainer policy is discriminatoryA U.S. district court has agreed with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s determination that the same-sex trainer policy of Prime Inc. (No. 17, CCJ Top 250) is discriminatory.August 15, 2014BusinesseHighway tech to be tested in California next yearA two-mile demonstration project using overhead cables to power electric trucks is slated to begin in California in Jul 2015.August 12, 2014BusinessCourt OKs $3M settlement against C.R. EnglandA federal court has approved a $3 million class action settlement over truth-in-leasing regulations in favor of the Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association against C.R. England Inc.July 25, 2014Previous PagePage 17 of 32Next PageTop StoriesDriver coaching and scorecardingDrivers rank camera as top safety tech, as long as it faces outwardTruck drivers ranked a camera, depending on which way it faces, as having a good and bad influence on driver safety.Test DrivesQuick spin: Pete's electric Model 579Recruiting & retentionTrucking's youth movement lagging, but no retirement in sight for most driversTechnologyTransportation a top 10 target of cyberattackers, cases nearly triple last yearFeatured SponsorDownload the Heavy Duty Maintenance Checklist