Upcoming Events:
- January 28th, 2025 – Risk Summit
- February 13th, 2025 – Drug & Alcohol Training for Safety Supervisors Seminar (Save the Date)
- April 2nd, 2025 – Southern Utah Trucking Association Charitable Golf Tournament (Save the Date)
- April 11th, 2025 – Spring WarmUp Sporting Clay Tournament (Save the Date)
- April 28th – 29th, 2025 – ZERO FATALITIES SAFETY SUMMIT
- May 7th – 9th, 2025 – Utah Trucking Association Management Conference & Trucking Expo (Save the Date)
Events:
Great West Casualty Company is proud to present our annual 2024/25 Risk Summit in Salt Lake City. This Risk Summit is open to all Utah Trucking Association members, Great West Casualty Company insureds and other industry partners.
Details:
- Tuesday, January 28, 2025, from 9 am until 1 pm.
- At Utah Trucking Association
4181 W. 2100 South
West Valley City, UT 84120
This event will cover:
- Safety and regulatory updates on future rules that may affect you,
- Building a culture that values safety,
- Strategies to strengthen your overall company safety culture,
- Roundtable discussions on how to integrate all employees into your safety efforts, and
- Networking opportunities and strategies
There is no cost for attendance and lunch will be provided.
ZERO FATALITIES SAFETY SUMMIT
You’re invited to join traffic safety officials and advocates for the 2025 Zero Fatalities Safety Summit, April 28-29, at the Mountain America Exposition Center in Sandy, Utah. The summit will include presentations and sessions on topics that are related to traffic safety, pedestrian and bike safety, enforcement, engineering, driver education, child passenger safety, occupant
protection, trucking, DEI, and other topics related to reaching our goal of Zero Fatalities.
The 2025 Safety Summit is an opportunity for traffic safety officials and advocates to share experiences, opportunities, and successes to improve safety in our communities.
Register before March 7 for early bird pricing.
Resources:
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Boost Your Retirement Savings with Increased 401k Catch-Up Contributions
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For detailed information about this valuable opportunity, please review the attached document. We have included a link to schedule a financial planning meeting with our 401k advisors at OneDigital. Please note, these planning meetings are offered at no charge to our 401k participants.
News:
Transportation Security Screening Modernization Act Now Law
President Joe Biden last week signed The Transportation Security Screening Modernization Act, “a bipartisan victory for common sense,” according to ATA President & CEO Chris Spear, whose organization has championed the bill that bill that allows workers to apply existing valid background checks to multiple credentialing programs managed by the Transportation Security Administration, such as the Transportation Worker Identification Credential (TWIC) and Hazardous Materials Endorsement (HME) programs.
Do you Have insurance in case You Suffer a Cyberattack?
Cyberattacks can cost small businesses big money. A report by IBM and the Ponemon Institute says the average data breach cost for a small business with fewer than 500 employees is $2.98 million. There are ways to guard against an attack, including technological safety nets, employee training and insurance policies.
CVSA Announces Dates for 2025 Human Trafficking Awareness Initiative
CVSA’s annual five-day human trafficking awareness, outreach, identification, and prevention initiative educates commercial motor vehicle drivers, motor carriers, law enforcement officers, and the general public about human trafficking. The Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance has set the dates for next year’s Human Trafficking Awareness Initiative for each of its three member countries. In the U.S., the initiative is scheduled for January 13-17, 2025.
On-the-job Fatalities Highest Among Truckers
Although workplace fatalities among truck drivers are trending downward, the job of a trucker remains one of the most dangerous in the United States. That’saccording to the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ latest Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries report, which breaks down the number of workplace fatalities for 2023. As in previous years, truck drivers and other transportation workers rank among the highest fatalities of all private sector employees. Workplace fatalities claimed the lives of 823 heavy and tractor-trailer truck drivers in 2023.
Cost Reduction is a Top Priority for Shippers and Carriers in 2025
Report Says The majority of respondents (61%) said cost reduction is a major focus for next year, particularly for shippers at 76%, compared to carriers and 3PLs at 52%. The report indicated that shippers are likely to focus more on cost reduction efforts due to expected increases in rates, cost pressures from environmental regulations and global trade tariffs.
How Trucking Can Combat Human Trafficking in 2025
As truck drivers transport goods across the U.S., spending hours upon hours on highways and at truck stops, they’re uniquely positioned to witness, help, and report human trafficking. According to TAT, of the estimated 50 million victims worldwide, thousands of girls, boys, women, and men are trafficked for sex or labor in the U.S. and Canada. Traffickers recruit victims out of schools, online, malls, the streets, and other locations. Most of the people trafficked are women and children, many of which are used in the sex industry and prostituted on the street, in private homes, and at legitimate businesses, such as restaurants, truck stops, and motels.
Clearinghouse Phase II: Make Sure Your Team Understands the Latest FMCSA Testing Requirements
The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration’s Drug and Alcohol Clearinghouse has unquestionably achieved much of its intended purpose. The burden of chasing down former employers of drivers in an effort to obtain drug and alcohol testing results has changed drastically. The required information is now just a query away in the Clearinghouse. Phase II now in effect. A second final ruling, known as “Clearinghouse II,” took effect on November 18, 2024.
California Abandons Advanced Clean Fleets Rule
The California Air Resources Board has withdrawn its request for the waiver it would need from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for its controversial Advanced Clean Fleets regulation, since it’s unlikely to get approval from the incoming Trump administration.
FMCSA’s Random Drug-Testing Rate for 2025
For Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration-regulated workers, the random drug testing rate will remain at 50%, while the random alcohol testing rate will remain at 10%. FMCSA’s random testing rate last changed in 2020. This means that carriers are required to perform random drug tests at a rate equivalent to half their number of drivers in the calendar year. This includes the number of leased owner-operators a carrier contracts with, as well as owner-operators in a testing consortium.
FMCSA Revokes Registrations of Six ELDs
The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration on Wednesday announced the removal of six devices from the agency’s list of registered electronic logging devices (ELDs). The revoked devices include: Blue Star ELD, United ELD, Speed ELD, TrackEnsure ELD (two different software versions) Road Star Solutions. The six newly-revoked devices add to a growing list of devices placed on the Revoked Devices list in recent months, bringing the total to 15 since mid-November.
Mack Celebrates 125 Years of Trucking
“For 125 years, Mack Trucks has been more than just a manufacturer – we’ve been helping to build the American success story,” said Stephen Roy, president of Mack Trucks. “Every Mack truck that rolls off our assembly line carries forward a legacy of grit, innovation, and that unmistakable bulldog tenacity that has defined our brand since 1900.”
