Technology & Maintenance Council
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
March 9, 2025
Fullbay Unveils Fifth Annual State of Heavy-Duty Repair Report;
Highlights Key Industry Data and Benchmarks for Commercial Repair Industry
Fifth report finds that labor rates continue to rise by more than $4 annually
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The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) on January 16 granted American Trucking Associations (ATA) and its Technology & Maintenance Council (TMC) a five-year exemption that will cut the time new technicians need to spend preparing to enter the workforce while maintaining high standards for safety and competency.
ATA, TMC Hail FMCSA Exemption to Cut Technician Training Red Tape
Washington – This week the American Trucking Associations and ATA’s Technology & Maintenance Council thanked the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration for granting an exemption the groups had requested to alleviate the technician shortage. The waiver will cut the time new technicians need to spend preparing to enter the workforce while maintaining high standards for safety and competency.
Under the new policy, which ATA requested in 2020, technicians will be allowed to skip the federally required one-year of training or experience needed to conduct commercial vehicle inspections and brake-related repair and maintenance provided they received training based on TMC’s Recommended Practices.
A new report from American Trucking Associations’ Technology & Maintenance Council and Decisiv Inc. indicated parts and labor costs rose in the third quarter of 2024.
ABSTRACT
TMC’s S.14 Last Mile & Vocational Vehicles Study Group undertook review of the applicability of the Council’s Vehicle Maintenance Reporting Standards (VMRS) in specialty commercial vehicle applications. The Task Force assigned to this effort concluded that VMRS is directly applicable and a valuable tool in specialty commercial vehicle maintenance programs in its current format. No changes are needed to the current Recommended Practice TMC RP 802G, Vehicle Maintenance Reporting Standards, as existing processes for the addition of new codes as well as the availability of user-defined coding enables accommodation of these applications.
Washington – The American Trucking Associations’ Technology & Maintenance Council (TMC) has announced Jack Kennedy, CEO and Co-Founder of Platform Science, will join the TMC 2025 Annual Meeting & Transportation Technology Exhibition as the kickoff breakfast keynote.
Kennedy will share his vision for how technology will transform transportation - making a driver’s day more efficient and empowering fleets to perform at their very best. Attendees will walk away with strategies to deal with disruption in the Age of Innovation.
Registration Open for TMC’s 2025 Annual Meeting
Premier Trucking Technology Event Slated for March in Nashville
Washington – The American Trucking Associations has opened registration for ATA’s Technology & Maintenance Council’s Annual Meeting & Transportation Technology Exhibition, the nation’s foremost trucking technology event.
TMC Fleet Members Top Maintenance Concerns
Continue to Shift from Summer to Fall 2024
Aftertreatment, Emissions Return to Top Five After One Year’s Absence, According to Recent Council Survey
The things that keep fleet managers up at night continued to shift through the end of October 2024, according to a fall survey conducted by ATA’s Technology & Maintenance Council’s (TMC) — at least when it comes to TMC fleet members’ top maintenance worries.
This is the Presentation Template for TMC's 2025 Annual Meeting in 16x9 format.
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