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Business

Trucking rap sheet: FMCSA drug testing firm shut down, CDL third-party tester convicted

Several trucking-related crimes were announced by the Department of Transportation Office of Inspector General this week.

September 8, 2015

Business

FMCSA committees meeting this month to talk driver health

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration has announced a joint meeting of its Motor Carrier Safety Advisory Committee and its Medical Review Board.

September 3, 2015

Electronic Logging Devices

Rule to require speed limiters could come this week, e-log rule expected soon too

Rules to mandate the use of speed limiters and electronic logging devices should see action soon. Here’s the latest.

August 17, 2015

Channel 19

Run an e-log as a team? Keep a regular weekly schedule? …

Here’s the criteria FMCSA used to allow McKee Foods’ private fleet’s drivers to use 5/5-, 4/6- or 3/7-hour sleeper splits to satisfy the required 10 hours of sleeper berth time.

August 13, 2015

Business

Trucker on state’s Top 10 Most Wanted list for deadly crash arrested in Ky.

A trucker charged in a crash that left six dead is now behind bars one day after Tennessee added him to its ‘Top 10 Most Wanted Fugitive’ list.

August 13, 2015

Business

Owner-ops, trucking groups say proposed CSA changes don’t address program’s flaws

The comment period for the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration’s proposed changes to the Compliance, Safety, Accountability program closed last week, and several major trucking organizations and companies weighed in.

August 12, 2015

Voices

Potential FMCSA chief Darling ‘appreciates truckers,’ says OOIDA: That and other reactions to nomination

Both the American Trucking Associations and the Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association have expressed their support for the nomination of Scott Darling to head the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration as official administrator, a role he’s performed on an acting basis for nearly a year. President Barack Obama on Wednesday nominated Darling to head the DOT’s […]

August 6, 2015

Business

FMCSA’s Scott Darling tapped by Pres. Obama to become agency’s next administrator

President Barack Obama this week nominated T.F. Scott Darling to become the next administrator of the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, a position he’s filled on an acting basis since former Administrator Anne Ferro’s departure last August.

August 5, 2015

Business

Trucking rap sheet: Driver pleads guilty to threatening FMCSA rep, latest on CDL test scheme bust

A truck driver who was accused this year of making threats to an FMCSA employee has pleaded guilty to the charges, among other trucking related crime updates announced this week.

August 3, 2015

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Last day to comment on FMCSA’s proposed CSA changes

The public comment period on recently proposed changes to the CSA carrier ranking and enforcement program ends at 11:59 p.m. Wednesday, July 29.

July 29, 2015

Channel 19

Sleep apnea twilight zone in California: The strange trials of Greg Price

Price’s story illustrates that when faced with a bureaucratic mistake, followed quite clearly by bureaucratic insolence, persistence for what is right and correct and true can ultimately win the day.

July 23, 2015

Business

FMCSA shuts down Kentucky-based driver following false logs, fatal crash

FMCSA has issued an imminent hazard out-of-service order to a Kentucky-based driver after FMCSA determined he falsified his records-of-duty status in the days leading up to a crash that killed six.

July 21, 2015