Equipment
Business
Regulations
Life
Custom Rigs
Gear
Tag: FMCSA: Page 62
Business
OOIDA requests FMCSA delay the compliance date of medical registry rule
The Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association has filed a legal petition asking the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration to push back the compliance date of the medical examiner registry rule until more agency-certified examiners are available for truck operators.
April 8, 2014
Overdrive Extra
E-logging: What’s trackable is going to get tracked
Even if we lived in an alternate universe where hours of service did not exist, fleets eventually would monitor drivers’ locations and hours.
April 8, 2014
Voices
ELD rule public comments mixed, with renewed focus on hours rule
Among others, Mark Olsen of Clinton, Utah, echoed the overall mixed nature of the comments all told. However, he rejoined arguments in favor of the need for ELDs with a message heard increasingly — that the hours of service rules in general are the bigger problem as regards true safety.
April 4, 2014
Business
FMCSA reinstates informal hearings as way to contest violations
FMCSA has reinstated informal hearings as an additional way to contest enforcement cases, and this time the option is available nationwide.
April 4, 2014
Voices
FMCSA updates website
The public face of the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration at FMCSA.DOT.gov has been lifted — or changed, as it were, with a somewhat comprehensive redesign.
April 2, 2014
Business
Agency shuts down Texas carrier for hours, drug testing violations
FMCSA announced this week it has shut down a the Forest Hill, Texas-based FTW Transport, issuing an imminent hazard out-of-service order for violations related to hours-of-service compliance and drug and alcohol regulations.
April 1, 2014
Business
FMCSA updates definition of combination weight rating
“Gross combination weight rating” has been redefined to clarify when CDL and other federal safety regulations apply to certain single-unit trucks towing trailers.
March 20, 2014
Business
Agency orders two carriers to shut down for myriad of violations
The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration announced this week it has shut down two separate trucking companies, issuing both imminent hazard out-of-service orders for various violations.
March 19, 2014
Business
Overdrive’s CSA exposé wins a top journalism award
Overdrive won the Grand Neal Award for its series of stories and interactive website on the Compliance, Safety, Accountability program.
March 14, 2014
Voices
Readers debate New Entrant test
While a majority were positive about FMCSA’s plan to introduce regs testing into the process for obtaining operating authority, questions as to the scope of test questions remained as the second federal listening session on the subject approached.
March 13, 2014
Business
Speed limiter rule coming? DOT report says yes, and could be this year
Joining an already full trucking regulatory docket this year could be a rule that requires trucks to use speed limiters, though what the limited speed may be isn’t known.
March 13, 2014
Business
Agency seeking New Entrant testing input at March 28, April 7 listening sessions
FMCSA will hear input from industry stakeholders and other public comment in the second and third listening sessions held March 28 and April 7 to aid the agency in its creation of the New Entrant testing rule mandated by MAP-21.
March 11, 2014
Previous Page
Page 62 of 106
Next Page