15 – Day Rule Change Procedures Make Access Unlikely for Most Truckers After all the hoopla, name calling, and even one lawsuit to stop CARB from moving forward with proposed amendments to the Statewide Truck and Bus rule, it appears CARB staff never intended to allow anyone to access a new provision called the “Economic […]
By Californian columnist Lois Henry The more I learn about how certain air regulations were concocted, the more ludicrous it all seems. Tomorrow the California Air Resources Board will debate whether to extend the deadline for small trucking firms to comply with rules on PM2.5. (That’s tiny bits of fine particulate matter contained in soot, […]
Federal and state Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) agencies are putting their focus on fall safety, the number one cause of death at construction sites, this summer. Cal/OSHA inspectors fanned out at construction sites in the San Francisco Bay Area late last month, following a recent rash of fatal accidents in the region. Investigators […]
The Division of Occupational Safety and Health is proposing major revisions to California’s heat illness prevention standard. The action is not yet a formal rulemaking, but the agency is sending its proposal to the Standards Board, is a big first step in revising the almost 10-year-old regulation. Employers with heat exposures may be well advised […]
By Betty Plowman – Northern California Service Director CCTA A newly formed coalition that is taking a stand against a fuel tax increase set for January 1, 2015, held its kick-off event at 3B’s Truck and Auto Plaza in Lodi on May 23, 2014. The group is calling the state mandated increase a hidden, regressive […]
The dust has settled on the California state budget process so we now know how bad the cuts for Caltrans’s fiscal 2014-15 budget (which started July 1) will be—$1.78 billion or 13.8 percent chopped off—for a total of $11.065 billion as compared with $12.89 billion for last year. Virtually all of the cuts will come […]
Most people who signed up under President Obama’s health care law rate their new insurance highly, but a substantial number are struggling with the cost, according to a poll released late June. At the summer Board meeting in Sacramento, June 21, our endorsed agent at CoreMark Insurance (formally Armstrong Ins.) provided the Board and staff […]
So we’re supposedly now trapped on a warming planet, yet a very cold winter last year (3 out of the last 5) hits and we’re now being told cold weather is responsible for inflation busting natural gas prices. Since California’s environmentalist cult controls us all here (from Sacramento and D.C.) this means that struggling Californian’s […]
CCTA Member Follows a Unique Path Phrases like “gearhead” and “old school” to describe truckers just isn’t heard as much today as it used to be. It does accurately describe CCTA member Dwayne Whitney and how he decided to comply with CARB regulations.
By Daniel Bertrand – CEO – CoreMark Insurance Services, Inc As the endorsed insurance agent of the CCTA for close to 9 years, Armstrong & Associates Insurance Services takes pride in bringing to CCTA members access to competitive and comprehensive insurance programs. The same CCTA endorsed team who brought you discounted Workers’ Compensation programs, exclusive […]
