This week, federal agencies have announced plans to remove "unnecessary regulatory barriers" that would slow down the deployment of driverless truck ...

The International Brotherhood of Teamsters voiced its opposition this week to a proposed pilot program from the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration ...

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration issued on Wednesday, May 22, advance notices of ...

The FMCSA's Medical Review Board will continue the process of revising the handbook for certified medical examiners with meetings July 15-16 in Arlington, Va ...

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration is seeking public comment on a “potential” pilot program that would allow drivers ages 18 to 20 to operate ...

The plan is for the public to get its first glimpse of the proposed changes to the hours-of-*service* regulations on June 7, followed by a short comment period.

In a monthly regulatory update posted this week, the U.S. Department of Transportation has listed June 7 as the projected publication date for its coming ...

Today the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) officially announced their intentions to move forward with a plan that would allow teenagers to ...

The International Brotherhood of Teamsters is speaking out against the FMCSA's attempt to start a second pilot program that would allow under-21 drivers to ...

Washington — The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration has created a webpage that outlines specifics of the Drug and Alcohol Clearinghouse, a national ...

Judge George H. Wu of the United States District Court for the Central District of California recently dismissed meal and rest break claims brought under the ...

After months of public comments and listening sessions, the DOT and FMCSA plans to ease HOS rules while still focusing on driver safety.

A California court has dismissed a truck driver's claims regarding the state's meal-and-rest-break provisions, which the Federal Motor Carrier Safety ...

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration has filed a “pre-rule,” also known as an advanced notice of proposed rulemaking, with the White House's Office ...

An employee involved in a scheme to submit falsified commercial driver's license medical examinations to the FMCSA was convicted and sentenced to 24 ...

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) seeks public comment on a proposed pilot program that would allow drivers aged 18 to 20 to drive ...

Trucking groups disagree on pilot program to allow non-military commercial drivers under 21 to operate in interstate commerce.

Groendyke Transport has gotten the green light for its pulsating lights on the backs of its tanker trailers. The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration has ...

The Ohio Department of Public Safety has requested exemption from certain commercial driver license regulations to open up truck-driving opportunities for ...

The FMCSA is seeking public comments on a possible pilot program meant to allow young people between the ages of 18 and 20 to operate CMVs interstate.

The regulatory journey of federal hours-of-*service* rules is approaching an important turning point as June 7, the scheduled release date for the Department of ...

Saying that the case lacked standing, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit dismissed Flat Creek Transportation's lawsuit against FMCSA that claimed ...

The International Brotherhood of Teamsters union has joined the majority of early commenters rejecting a proposed pilot program to lower the restriction for ...

Law360 (May 10, 2019, 3:22 PM EDT) -- The Eleventh Circuit ruled Thursday that an Alabama-based trucking company lacked standing to sue the Federal ...

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration is focused on improving infrastructure and creating common-sense regulations, and ...

Transport Topics reports in its April 3 article entitled “Crash Not Your Fault? FMCSA Says Soon It Won't Hurt Your CSA Score” that the agency intends to identify ...

The U.S. Department of Transportation's Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration's Clearinghouse will become operational on January 6, 2020, and ...

The American Bus Association asks the FMCSA to add drivers of 'passenger-carrying CMVs to the list of exemptions from California's meal and rest break rules.'

While the majority of truckers transitioned over to electronic logging devices, or ELDs, in their cabs to digitally track their daily driving hours over a year ago, ...

The American Bus Association is asking the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration to add drivers of passenger-carrying commercial motor vehicles to the ...

The introduction of the drug and alcohol clearinghouse in January 2020 is going to have a bigger impact on truck capacity than the recent implementation of the ...

DOT has listed June 7 as the projected publication date for its proposal to alter specific aspects of the federal hours of *service* regulations.

A federal district court in California has determined that it lacks jurisdiction to rule on a class-action suit brought against U.S. Xpress that alleges the motor carrier ...

Editor's note: This is the first part of a story about the FMCSA's request for comments on its proposal to change hours-of-*service* rules. The next part will be ...

Groendyke recently was granted a limited five-year exemption to allow use of an amber brake-activated pulsating lamp on its trailers.

Extreme Logistics and the American Pyrotechnics Association (APA) have both separately requested HOS exemptions from the FMCSA.

The Ohio Department of Public Safety (ODPS) has recently petitioned the FMCSA for exemption from specific CDL (commercial driver license) regulations to ...

The adoption of electronic logging devices by truckers hasn't produced the safety results its proponents expected.

WASHINGTON — The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration Wednesday issued advance notices of ...

Addressing this problem is a priority for a number of lawmakers in Congress. United States Transport Arnold & Porter 21 May 2019.

The introduction of electronic logging devices and their ability to accurately record hours-of-*service* (HOS) regulations for drivers of commercial motor vehicles ...

OOIDA submitted comments on the FMCSA's notice of possible changes to the rule that makes prospective drivers complete an employment application.

In this episode we cover… – Black Smoke Matters post mortem. – Trump trucker tax troubles. – No need to cry over spilled milk in Texas. Related Topics: ...

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration is seeking public comment on a potential pilot that would allow drivers ranging from ages 18 to 20 to operate ...

California Ninth Circuit Court dismissed truck driver's claims that U.S. Xpress failed to provide drivers with legally required meal, rest periods compliant with ...

Companies in the transportation industry with operations in California have some positive news to celebrate. On May 3, 2019, in Anthony Ayala v. U.S…

Someday in the near future, there will be no need for mirrors on commercial trucks because they may be no drivers to look into them. But until that day, mirrors ...

For the second time in less than a week, a trucking carrier has shut its doors with no advanced warning. According to media reports in Alabama, Dothan-based ...

Since federal regulators and the trucking industry got serious about safety nearly four decades ago, thousands of lives have been saved on U.S. roads. But last ...

The social media-based trucking advocacy group, TruckerNation, recently met with the OMB regarding HOS regulations viewed by many as restrictive.

A former Alabama state trooper has pleaded guilty to hacking into the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration's computer databases, gaining access to ...

LAKEWOOD, Colo. -- The trucking company that employed I-70 crash suspect Rogel Aguilera-Mederos has been cited 30 times for various safety violations in ...

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration on Dec. 21 determined that federal rest-break laws pre-empt California's separate meal-and-rest-break ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Beginning in August, the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration plans to make permanent a demonstration program that allows truck ...

What makes a commodity and agricultural commodity? That is one question that the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administrations hopes to answer soon, it said, ...

A spike in truck-involved fatal crashes and fraudulent truck driver medical certification cases has spurred a Department of Transportation Inspector General audit ...

The head of the FMCSA said the agency is still reviewing the 5200 public comments it received regarding potential HOS changes.

Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) head Ray Martinez enjoyed a warm welcome on March 12 at a general session of the Truckload Carriers ...

President Donald Trump's fiscal 2020 budget request proposes increasing funding for federal trucking regulators. Overall, the U.S. Department of Transportation ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — A top Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration official updated truckers on the agency's efforts to mitigate parking problems and the ...

Truckers have started to point out that these federal administrators don't understand what it's really like to be a truck driver.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Some truck drivers still are grappling with the definition of personal conveyance time. They shouldn't be, according to a top executive for the ...

Federal trucking regulators on April 15 granted SmartDrive System Inc. a five-year exemption to allow an advanced driver assistance system (ADAS) camera to ...

The partial shutdown of the U.S. government could delay the publication of a proposed rule to reform hours of *service* regulations, according to a U.S. DOT ...

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration on Feb. 21 formally announced the immediate end of its exemption process for the medical certification of ...

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) released additional online resources for Commercial Driver's License (CDL) holders, employers, state ...

Latest Industry Research Report On “Global Advanced Driver Assistance Systems Market – Growth, Trends, And Forecast (2018 – 2023)” in-depth analysis of ...

AUSTIN, TX. There's been a different tone at the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA)—it's stood out this year as the agency has held, ...

California Sues FMCSA Over Meal-and-Rest-Break Rule Decision.

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration has scrapped plans for a 12-month split sleeper berth pilot program designed to collect real-world data on the ...

LAKEWOOD, Colo. -- If a highway fireball that kills four people, injures six and leaves 28 vehicles incinerated sounds like a multi-million dollar settlement, guess ...

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration has received separate exemption requests from Extreme Logistics and the American Pyrotechnics Association ...

FMCSA has granted Stoneridge Inc. a five-year exemption to install its camera-monitoring system on trucks instead of traditional rear-view mirrors.

In this episode we cover… – Sticky situation on highway. -FMCSA wants younger drivers? – Driver leaves truck running on highway and goes missing.

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) is considering changes to four areas of the existing hours-of-*service* (HOS) regulations, and has ...

The rule eliminates a typical two- or three-month delay for diabetic drivers to navigate a bureaucratic process requesting an exemption from the Federal Motor ...

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration's (FMCSA) ambitious goal to get a final rule on hours-of-*service* (HOS) in place within a year of its initial ...

Clearinghouse will identify CDL drivers who have violated federal drug and alcohol testing program requirements in "real time," FMCSA says, and will be safer.

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration over the next year plans to expand implementation of its “off-site safety audit” review process from 10 test states ...

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) announced a new final rule streamlining the process of upgrading from a Class B to Class A CDL.

The federal spending bill signed into law by President Trump on Feb. 15 contained a measure that allows commercial drivers hauling livestock and insects to ...

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration has received requests for exemption from hours-of-*service* rules from a trade group representing waste haulers ...

Trucking companies could be exposed to increased liability while a challenge to FMCSA's hours-of-*service* preemption in California is pending.

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration has granted reprieve from hours-of-*service* rules to one group and received an exemption request from the rules ...

EROAD recently provided “valuable and relevant data” to the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration.

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration is moving forward with a final rule aimed at making it easier for drivers to upgrade a Class B commercial driver's ...

The medical community has been waiting nearly three years for the FMCSA Medical Examiner's Handbook to be updated.

Federal regulators have granted a five-year exemption to the Agricultural & Food Transporters Conference of American Trucking Associations, clearing a variety ...

Data from ELDs are informing the hours of *service* (HOS) rule review in process, Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) head Ray Martinez said in ...

Spurred by a wake of criminal charges against medical examiners who have fraudulently issued DOT medical certificates to truck operators, the U.S. DOT's ...

Two companies and a trade association representing railroad employees have petitioned the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration for relief from certain ...

Remember two years ago, when it seemed like the entire trucking industry was counting down the days to the ELD deadline? Well, the Federal Motor Carrier ...

WASHINGTON — Federal trucking regulators expressed concern over increasing numbers of large-truck-involved fatal crashes in work zones and a continuing ...

Several industry groups are petitioning the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration for exemptions from certain hours-of-*service* rules. Four trade ...

A new report published by a major mainstream media news outlet this week confirms what many truckers have long suspected -- that none of the Federal Motor ...

FMCSA withdrew exemptions processes set up in 2003 and 2005 for individuals with insulin-treated diabetes mellitus to be medically certified to operate CMVs.

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration launched a webpage on Thursday, March 7, with information about the upcoming implementation of its CDL ...

Cathy Gautreaux, deputy administrator for the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, will be leaving the agency, an agency spokesman confirmed.

A recent Facebook post made by the California Highway Patrol (CHP) says that troopers are seeing an increased number of truck drivers who are under the ...

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) has publicly confirmed that there are major changes coming to the current Hours of *Service* (HOS) ...