WASHINGTON -- Unfortunately, the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation recently included the double-deck trailer ban in S. 1950, the Commercial Motor Vehicle Enhancement Act of ...

MinStar Transport, a dry van carrier based in Eagan, Minn.,, launched its new Double Deck Trailer System. MinStar's can help companies double the amount of freight carried on a single truck while ...

Bill would close loophole on trailer ban affecting livestock haulers. (Photo: Jim Allen/FreightWaves) WASHINGTON — Rep. Steve Cohen, D-Tenn., has been advocating for more humane transportation of ...

This story appears in the Aug. 16 print edition of Transport Topics. Federal legislation that would ban the use of double-decker trailers to transport horses has drawn the ire of trucking and other ...

Imagine not being able to lift your head for hours on end in a moving vehicle. For horses forced to travel in double-deck trailers, this is the reality. While experts agree that the proper ceiling ...

— Rep. Andy Harris, whose district is home to last year’s Kentucky Derby winner, has tucked a ban on cramped horse trailers into a massive transportation bill pending in Congress, pitting him against ...

Washington, DC—Late Monday night, Senator Mark Kirk (R-IL) and Senator Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ) introduced The Horse Transportation Safety Act of 2011 (S. 1281) to ban double deck trailer ...

“Double-decker trailers are designed for cattle and hogs, not horses,” Menendez said Monday. “This legislation would put a much needed end to the inhumane and unsafe practice of transporting horses in ...

Legislation that would ban the transportation of horses in double-decker trailers would cost the nearly 80 contractors who transport livestock to rodeos all over the U.S. more than $4 million in extra ...

John Mackirdy Limited, based in Bute, Scotland, recently took delivery of a new Carrier Transicold Vector HE 19 MT (multi-temperature) refrigeration unit, which the company mounted to its first double ...