ADOT conducts field investigations at sites with cultural, historic significance PHOENIX – Along the 22-mile corridor where the South Mountain Freeway will be built over the next few years, archaeologists are working to gather and recover items and information from…
Jobs, economic development benefit from traffic increase PHOENIX – Nearly 8,000 more trucks, 400,000 more passenger vehicles and 900,000 more people entering the U.S. in 2015 through Arizona’s international ports of entry speak to numbers critical to this state’s economy:…
ATA has launched a new state-wide member benefit program called the "Arizona Trucking Association Printing Co-op.” The program offers custom printing at 10-20% savings through the power of group buying. The program will piggyback the California Trucking Association’s Printing Co-op…
Phoenix, AZ – On April 16, 2016, the Arizona Trucking Association held its annual Truck Driving Championship (TDC) at Tempe Diablo Stadium. 165 drivers participated in this year‘s event. Many of which have millions of miles of accident free driving.…
SB1381 WINE; DIRECT SHIPMENT Issue: Compromise between the wholesalers and the direct wine people created new reporting requirements and severe civil penalties for common carriers that deliver wine directly to customers. Status: Removed additional requirements and penalties on Senate floor…
Arlington, VA - The American Transportation Research Institute (ATRI), the trucking industry's not-for-profit research organization, today launched a new data collection initiative to create a database of motor carrier crash costs by crash type and severity. This data collection will…
Enhanced social media presence and expanded use of big data analytics are two critical tactics for carriers seeking to solve the ongoing problem of the driver shortage, experts at a conference here on recruitment and retention said last week. Facebook…
On December 4, 2015, President Obama signed into law the Fixing America’s Surface Transportation Act, or “FAST Act.” ADOT is in the process of reviewing the FAST Act and is working towards the implementation necessary to align our state laws…
The Congressional Budget Office, in a new 10-year estimate of Highway Trust Fund spending and revenue, projects the country's principal infrastructure investment stream will run dry in 2021 and unless Congress provides more funding it could rack up a $108…
Rate at Smaller Fleets and LTL Carriers Fell Arlington, Va. – The annualized turnover rate at large truckload carriers rose 13 points to 100% in the third quarter of 2015, the highest it has been in three years, according to…