Heavy Duty Trucking

MAY 2014

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4 HDT • MAY 2014 www.truckinginfo.com departments Follow us on More at Some of April's hottest stories: 1 Judge Overrules FMCSA Shutdown Order of Illinois Trucking Company 2 First Lawsuit Filed Over Deadly FedEx Freight-Bus Crash 3 Food Safety Rules Could Create Headaches for Carriers 4 Economic Watch: Durable Good Shipments and Orders Leap 5 FMCSA Starts New Rule on Insurance Minimums More top news at www.truckinginfo.com/news Truckinginfo Web-Only Features Natural Gas Fuel Loses Some of its Luster, But Not Going Away www.truckinginfo.com/NaturalGasLuster Do We Worry Too Much About Inf ation Pressure? www.truckinginfo.com/Inf ationCaseStudies Photo Gallery: 100 Years of Utility Trailers www.truckinginfo.com/utility100yearsgallery What We're Blogging About truckinginfo.com/blog All That's Trucking By Deborah Lockridge Helping Truckers Break the Law Trailer Talk By Tom Berg Twin 33s Would Be Safer than 28s, U of Michigan Researcher Says On the Road By Jim Park FMCSA's Ferro Ponders Distrac- tion Potential of On-board Displays Volume 93, Number 5 • May 2014 d t t contents 6 Masthead 8 Deborah Lockridge Texting caught on tape 10 Washington Report • Pressure builds on HighwayTrust Fund • GAO to analyze hours of service • Carriers may use informal hearings to contest FMCSA penalties 16 Hotline • Q&A;: PeopleNet's Brian McLaughlin • Food safety proposal could spell headaches • Behind FTR's Trucking Conditions Index 22 Safety & Compliance How to avoid 6 common CSA violations 26 FuelSmarts Electric vehicles zoom in Indy 34 Once Around the Yard Providing 'comforts of home' for Heartland's drivers 62 Tires & Wheels Benchmarking your tire program 68 Trailers Maintenance tips 72 Tech Bytes What's new in the tech world 76 Equipment Report T e latest new product and equipment news 92 Locking It In Shall we automate? t o c _ m a y . i n d d 4 toc_may.indd 4 4 / 3 0 / 1 4 4 : 2 5 P M 4/30/14 4:25 PM

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