On December 2, 2021, the Department of Labor’s (DOL) Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) announced the extension of its comment period for the Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (ANPRM) on Heat Injury and Illness Prevention in Outdoor and Indoor [...]

On October 12, 2021, Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro N. Mayorkas issued a memorandum directing U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) to develop and update policies to [...]

In the industry, many times we treat trucks as an afterthought, but in reality, we should treat trucks the way pilots treat airplanes. The driver of a 20-ton truck has a huge amount of responsibility. Photo courtesy of The Townsend [...]

In four months, the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration’s (FMCSA) entry-level driver-training (ELDT) final rule will take effect, setting a new federal standard for mandatory training of entry-level drivers and establishing minimum requirements for entry-level driver-training providers. The standards will [...]

According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, heat stress killed 815 workers and seriously injured more than 70,000 workers from 1992 through 2017. This year, record-setting heat waves across the Pacific Northwest have been linked to hundreds of deaths and [...]