Ronald H. Usem is a transportation attorney and partner at Minneapolis-based law firm of Huffman, Usem, Saboe, Crawford & Greenberg. Mr. Usem also serves on the Director’s Circle of the Board of Directors of the Transportation Intermediaries Association (TIA), the professional organization of the third-party logistics industry.   Mr. ...

Unless you’ve been living under a rock (or hanging out on a sunny beach someplace—lucky you), you probably heard that the FMCSA decided to retain the maximum 11-hour driving limit and restart provisions for carrier fleets (along with most of the other provisions), at least for the time being. They cited studies showing that driving for 11 hours ...

In a recent survey of trucking companies monitored by CarrierWatch, TransCore’s powerful carrier monitoring system, we found the following: ·         74 percent have never received a safety rating ·         20 percent of awarded safety ratings are more than ten ...