Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration

The U.S. Department of Transportation’s chief AI officer, Vinn White, has been tapped to oversee truck safety for the Biden administration.

A congressionally mandated report on CDL skills testing reveals states that are improving — or getting worse — on testing wait times for aspiring truck drivers.

In this edition: Breaking down the new FMCSA fee increase and a big freight payment partnership.

Trucking companies will see cost bumps in their UCR Plan fees of up to $9,000, depending on fleet size. 

An anonymous federal survey on seat belt use by truck drivers follows recent fatality data showing many are not buckling up.

Federal trucking regulators want in-person comments on revisions to how carriers are rated on safety.

New legislation designed to crack down on fake companies that give legitimate brokers and carriers a bad name has bipartisan support.

Another large trucking company has asked federal regulators to relax its permitting rules to get drivers in seats faster.

The Justice Department’s move to loosen restrictions on pot has drawn a strong reaction from large trucking companies that fear recategorizing the drug could lead to more crashes.

Getting a commercial learner’s permit at 17 would give disadvantaged students a faster path to truck driver jobs, Connell High School in eastern Washington told regulators.

A requirement that motor carriers pass a written safety exam before being issued a DOT number will be delayed again as new drivers involved in fatal crashes are on the rise.

Federal regulators are taking the first steps to crack down on scams caused by hackers into the trucking industry’s government registration system.

Regulators plan to submit to the White House the outline for a new truck-registration system that is expected to be more transparent and easier to use.

Assertions that trucker wages will suffer unless CDL test-taking rules are relaxed in Florida did not sway trucking regulators.

Here are a few key takeaways from the Scopelitis Transportation Law seminar on the myriad of legal issues facing today’s trucking fleets.

TCA executive David Heller sees the trucking industry as having made the necessary adjustments to deal with the Baltimore harbor closure.

Regulators are weighing more options to help truckers deal with hours-of-service issues as congestion clogs highway arteries in the Northeast.

A proposed rule that could benefit team-driving operations in trucking would weaken highway safety, those opposing the plan told the FMCSA.

Federal regulators have updated Congress on an FMCSA pilot program to recruit teen drivers, and the results are bleak.

A waiver for truckers impacted by the collapse of the Key bridge in Baltimore and a preliminary timeline for repairs offer optimism.