Following up on Thursday’s update regarding its plans to overhaul the system for motor carrier, broker and freight forwarder registration and updates, the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration on Friday provided an update on several of its in-the-works regulations at the Mid-America Trucking Show.
FMCSA Acting Deputy Administrator Sue Lawless opened Friday morning’s session thanking truck drivers for their work and recognizing the efforts of drivers to be safe on the nation’s highways.
She also highlighted work by the agency to help address drivers’ pain points in trucking, including the Truck Leasing Task Force working to address predatory lease-purchase agreements, studies looking at driver compensation and detention, grants provided to states to address the truck parking shortage, the Women of Trucking Advisory Board’s work to identify challenges for women in trucking and more.
“We are developing a new registration system to improve the transparency, efficiency and user experience of the agency’s registration systems, and to reduce fraud in the registration process,” Lawless said in reference to Thursday’s announcement.
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Lawless also noted a couple of the agency’s current priorities, including accident prevention and ways to leverage technology to make the highways safer.
“We are always working to understand prevention,” she said. “If we can understand prevention, we can have the ability to understand how and why crashes happen and to prevent them from happening.”
