Werner Driver Allen Parker Wins 2021 International Driver Excellence Award
OMAHA, Neb., March 16, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) Werner Enterprises (NASDAQ: WERN), a premier transportation and logistics provider, is honored to announce that the Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance (CVSA) has selected Werner professional driver Allen Parker as the winner of the 2021 International Driver Excellence Award (IDEA).
Since joining Werner in 1987, Parker has earned several President’s Safe Driver Club recognitions from the Nebraska Trucking Association, Annual On-Time Service Awards and recently achieved the rare safety milestone of driving four million accident-free miles.
“My job is to be safe, be professional and be considerate of other drivers on the road,” said Werner professional driver Allen Parker. “I always tell drivers that we need to treat others on the road like that is our family in the other car. Receiving this elite safety award is something I greatly appreciate.”
CVSA cancels inspectors competition for second consecutive year
CVSA Annual Conference and Exhibition still on track
0 295 1 minute read CVSA cancels inspectors event for 2021. (Photo: Flickr/North Dakota by Portable Weigh Station)
The Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance (CVSA) has cancelled this year’s North American Inspectors Championship (NAIC), which is concurrently held with the American Trucking Associations’ (ATA) National Truck Driving Championships and National Step Van Driving Championships. Both events were expected to take place in August.
The group made the announcement after ATA’s cancellation of its driver competition. The next CVSA championship is scheduled for Aug. 15-19, 2022, in Indianapolis.
CVSA Cancels North American Inspectors Championship in Minnesota
Scene from NAIC 2019 by John Sommers II for Transport Topics
The Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance has canceled this year’s North American Inspectors Championship, which had been scheduled to take place in August in Minneapolis, the trade group announced March 5.
The next championship is scheduled for Aug. 15-19, 2022, in Indianapolis.
The North American Inspectors Championship (NAIC) is an annual CVSA competition and training event that trains, tests, recognizes and awards commercial motor vehicle inspector excellence. Each jurisdiction sends its best commercial motor vehicle inspector to compete against top inspectors from other jurisdictions throughout Canada, Mexico and the United States.
Investigative: KeepTruckin fights NTSB bid to remove its ELD technology in wake of crash
KeepTruckin claims NTSB investigators didn’t understand the technical and regulatory differences between AOBRDs and ELDs
13 12,726 11 minutes read KeepTruckin is petitioning the National Transportation Safety Board to rescind its recommendation that the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration remove KeepTruckin’s logging devices from its list of self-certified vendors. Photo: Jim Allen/FreightWaves
Nearly three months after the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) called for KeepTruckin’s electronic logging technology to be removed from the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration’s list of self-certified providers, the San Francisco-based company is fighting to clear its name.
Mar 01, 2021
The DataQs system enables carriers and drivers to challenge inspection violations and crash reports, but many in trucking have complained of its shortcomings.photo by Max HeineTwo trucking and law enforcement panelists shared loads of mutual respect during a Thursday webinar on DataQs, but the fleet executive, Chris Haney, left no doubt about concerns shared by many in trucking over the seriousness of “unintended consequences” when the reviews process comes up short.
Haney, safety director for the 130-truck Payne Trucking, and Chris Turner, of the Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance, were joined by moderator Todd Dills,
Overdrive senior editor. The live-streamed session followed from