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The elected leader of the Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance wants to build partnerships with highway safety and truck crash victim advocacy groups to help improve truck and bus safety.

The National Transportation Safety Board is about to chide the Department of Transportation for not providing truck drivers adequate opportunities to get a full measure of rest while on the road, according to the chairman of the NTSB.

Regulators, researchers and interest groups will hash out federal truck size and weight issues at a workshop that runs from May 10 to 11 in Irvine, Calif.

Some of the men and women on the front lines of the battle against driver fatigue are worried that the Department of Transportation’s revisions to the hours-of-service regulations may be too complicated to enforce effectively.

The National Transportation Safety Board’s “Ten Most Wanted” list of transportation safety improvements is now grown to 11, as agency officials voted to add commercial truck and bus safety to the list.

For the third time in as many decades, the Department of Transportation is attempting to update the 61-year-old hours-of-service regulations.

The federal regulations that govern how much time a professional driver can spend behind the wheel have been around for more than 60 years, but not without changes. Because change is rarely achieved without controversy, today’s regulators find themselves ensnared in a familiar dilemma: how to tailor the rules to suit the wide variety of trucking circumstances.

The National Private Truck Council has an identity crisis. It is not well-known among its potential members: companies that operate trucks to haul the goods they produce or distribute but that do not consider freight transportation to be their primary business.

The federal regulations that govern how much time a professional driver can spend behind the wheel have been around for more than 60 years, but not without changes or opposition from the trucking industry.

As the National Private Truck Council holds its convention this week, the organization has an identity crisis. It is not well-known among its potential members and may be suffering from an outdated designation.