Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration

Federal regulators have once again denied a request to exempt small truck brokers from bond requirements.

OMB’s 2022 agenda for regulatory agencies includes proposals from FMCSA on ELDs and carrier safety ratings.

Truck safety groups and the Teamsters claimed in federal appeals court that the FMCSA weakened its regulations in 2020 regarding truck driver work hours.

Federal regulators are keeping in place a work-hour exemption giving truck drivers more time to haul pandemic-related freight.

The latest hours-of-service waiver is set to expire on Christmas Eve.

Fleets and individual truckers buying at today’s elevated prices
assume a big risk when the used equipment market normalizes.

Even when everyone agrees, regulations take a year to get approved. And there are detractors to autonomous trucking rulemaking

Federal ruling on rear impact guard inspections on truck trailers sparks debate over costly new safety equipment.

Motor Carrier Act of 1980, OTR driver shortage, consumer confidence falls

Federal regulators have vastly improved the ability to keep unsafe drivers off the road but the trucking industry is scrambling to make up the shortfall.

Regulators are urging carriers to take action to ensure their ELDs remain legal after mobile networks transition out of 3G.

These are the five spots where truckers are most likely to experience a rollover, according to a telematics company.

FMCSA’s Meera Joshi is taking on multiple trucking issues.

Long-term supply chain challenges could minimize the value of driver pay increases.

Owner-operators are warning the FMCSA that shortages at drug-testing clinics are threatening truck driver livelihoods.

FMCSA is giving states three years to comply with a new truck-driver ban for drug and alcohol abusers.

An owner-operator lawsuit fails to convince a federal appeals court that FMCSA acts as a consumer reporting agency.

Odometer fraud is the disconnection, resetting or alteration of a vehicles’s odometer with the intent to change the number of miles indicated.

FMCSA Deputy Administrator Meera Joshi was told during the hearing on her nomination to become administrator that truck crash trends underscore the need for agency action.

Former government safety officials now have investments and profits to keep in mind as they help their companies chart a course for autonomous vehicles.