Freight clearance at border crossing at ports could be susceptible to backups and delays if Washington lawmakers are unable to resolve the funding crisis sooner rather than later.
FMCSA has ruled that California can’t dictate meal and rest break requirements that conflict with federal hours-of-service regulations.
States will soon be able to give would-be drivers more time to get their CDLs at the same time potentially lowering knowledge exam costs.
The federal guideline is “hearsed, nursed and towed,” and that will be the rule in Pennsylvania now.
FMSCA Administrator Raymond Martinez comments on his first nine months, and the potential for an early rollout of revised HOS rules.
FreightWaves adds a real time news widget with twitter feeds and up to the minute financial and transportation new reporting.
FMCSA has made public the denials of 10 exemption requests from its ELD rule, including OOIDA and nine smaller groups that were formally rejected earlier this year.
FreightWaves adds commercial vehicle accident injuries and fatalities in SONAR as well as adds regions to the TRI.
The original notice failed to include propane. It can become a factor particularly if deliveries go on past 12 hours.
It is now clarified that your truck can be laden while driving for personal conveyance.
Head of FMCSA and largest U.S. truck trade group say California attempting to preempt federal regulations.
FMCSA is allowing concrete pumper operators to work up to 14 hours in a day through a new exemption to the 12-hour workday for short-haul operators.
While 60% did say that ELDs were forcing drivers to stop, rest, and run legally, the other 40% of respondents felt that ELDs decreased driver safety, as well as for others on the road.
A long list of concerns in the ATA President’s annual speech to his group’s conference, including young drivers and California’s own laws.
On the agenda for the day: AOBRD transition, personal conveyance, sleeper berth rule and plenty of other issues for FMCSA’s top attorney.
Martinez also said the process has begun to look at the overlapping rules regarding agriculture transportation, and he clearly doesn’t favor California’s separate rules on meal breaks.
The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration will no longer assume a commercial driver is always a human as autonomous trucking makes its way onto the scene.
But lead agency for commercial vehicle safety says autonomous trucking will serve drivers well and make industry better.
In an effort to give our subscriber base input on a hot topic – HOS changes – we decided to conduct a survey during the FMCSA open comment period. Check out what we found!
