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Tag: Safety Fitness Determination
Electronic Logging Devices
ELD delay, trucker break laws on Congressional docket in coming weeks
A few prominent trucking policy reforms could be on tap in Congress in the coming weeks and months as lawmakers return to Washington from their annual August recess. Most prominently, lawmakers could take up a bill — or a rider to a must-pass spending bill — to delay the compliance date of the looming electronic logging device mandate.
September 5, 2017
Business
Senate DOT bill, unlike House, skips changes to ELD mandate, driver breaks
The Senate’s 2018 fiscal year DOT appropriations does not include any changes to the coming electronic logging device mandate, nor does it include the so-called Denham Amendment, which intends to block states from enacting rest break laws for truck drivers. The House version of the bill does include such reforms.
July 28, 2017
Business
DOT bill would nix state-mandated breaks for truckers, exempt livestock haulers from ELD mandate
The House’s 2018 DOT funding bill would bar states from requiring carriers to give drivers paid meal and rest breaks, spur FMCSA to adopt CSA reforms and exempt livestock and insect haulers from ELD compliance.
July 11, 2017
Business
Comments due Thursday for controversial Safety Fitness Determination proposed rule
The reply comment period for FMCSA’s proposed Safety Fitness Determination rule ends Thursday. Since the Notice of Proposed Rulemaking was published in January, it has been met with opposition, not only from trucking industry groups, but also Congress.
June 21, 2016
Overdrive Extra
SFD rule’s crash-risk disconnect: Data show most analyzed ‘Unfit’ carriers don’t crash
ASECTT’s Freedom of Information Act-obtained numbers show that 76 percent of carriers with five or fewer trucks, and who would have been flagged Unfit to operate under the proposed SFD’s parameters, recorded no crashes in the 12 months following the analyzed ‘Unfit’ determination. The numbers — and the questions they present about the proposed rule’s methodology — add to mounting pressure the agency’s faced since publishing the proposed rule in January.
June 3, 2016
Business
Owner-operators, industry groups weigh in on proposed Safety Fitness Determination rule
The resounding sentiment from most that submitted comments on the rule was that the FMCSA is getting ahead of itself by issuing the rulemaking before the Compliance, Safety, Accountability Safety Measurement System has been reviewed and its problems worked out.
June 1, 2016
Hours of Service
House bill restores 2011 hours of service rules, kills Safety Fitness Determination rulemaking
The measure does not tie the changes to the 34-hour restart study currently being conducted by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, a departure from trucking-specific provisions cleared by Congress in recent years.
May 17, 2016
Business
Trucking groups fire back at FMCSA over carrier rating rule, say it circumvents Congressional intent
An ad-hoc coalition of trucking organizations issued a letter Monday, April 11, to Acting FMCSA Administrator Scott Darling disputing comments made by FMCSA’s Joe DeLorenzo last week. The groups reiterate their argument that the rule violates federal law, despite FMCSA’s claims otherwise.
April 12, 2016
Business
Safety Fitness rule not a violation of FAST Act, FMCSA says in media briefing touting rule’s benefits
Joe DeLorenzo, head of enforcement and compliance for FMCSA, spoke briefly in a conference call with trucking industry media Thursday, April 7, touting both the rule’s ability to expand the agency’s ability to target unsafe carriers and addressing concerns about the rule’s relationship to the December-enacted FAST Act highway bill.
April 7, 2016
Business
‘Absolute measure’ scores to return to public CSA SMS with next update
Contrary to prior reports, FMCSA is not done with substantive additions to the interim CSA SMS public display — carriers’ “absolute measures,” which underly the hidden percentiles in each BASIC category, will return in March to public view.
February 24, 2016
Channel 19
Safety rating poised to turn to roadside data, coalition issues challenge
The coalition that took on the recent highway bill’s “poison pill” successfully has issued something of a pre-emptive challenge to FMCSA’s proposed changes to the safety rating program.
January 12, 2016
Business
White House clears rule to set up new FMCSA system to score, target carriers
Few details are known about what the rule entails. According to the agency’s regulatory summary, it would give FMCSA a new system to “determine when a motor carrier is not fit to operate.” It’s unclear whether recent Congressional action to remove CSA rankings from public view will impact the SFD rule, however.
December 14, 2015
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