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Stuffed peppers recipe: $1 million in cocaine

Cops in suburban Corpus Christi, Texas earlier this week stopped a tractor-trailer loaded with peppers and found more than $1 million in cocaine hidden in the produce. Officers from Nueces County, the Robstown Police Department, and Jim Wells County stopped a...

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FMCSA Proposes New Under-21 Commercial Driver Pilot Program

WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) today announced that it is proposing and seeking public comments on a new pilot program to allow drivers aged 18, 19, and 20 to operate commercial motor vehicles...

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What drivers need to know about new HOS rules

Four major updates to hours-of-service rules for commercial drivers take effect on Sept. 29, changing how long-haul drivers are required to take breaks and extending the distance short-haul drivers can travel in a day. Josh Fisher AUG 28, 2020 In just over a month —...

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Learn how to pause your 14-hour clock under new hours regs

At 12:01 a.m. Tuesday, Sept. 29 Eastern Time, one of the most discussed, praised, and vilified regulation governing drivers in the American trucking industry gets a modest facelift. At that time on that day, the federal rules dictating the hours of service for most...

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Canadian ELD timeline remains firm: CTA

TTAWA, Ont. – Don’t expect a reprieve from the Canadian electronic logging device (ELD) mandate, set to go into effect in June 2021. That was the message from Geoff Wood, senior vice-president of policy for the Canadian Trucking Alliance (CTA), while speaking at...

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