Trucking news and briefs for Monday, Dec. 5, 2022:
The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration has issued a three-month waiver extension from certain regulations applicable to commercial learner’s permit (CLP) holders seeking to take a skills test for a commercial driver’s license (CDL) and for states administering CDL skills tests. The agency has issued similar waivers since March 2020.
The waiver is effective December 1, 2022, and expires on February 28, 2023, or upon early termination by FMCSA, whichever is sooner.
FMCSA said it has “determined that it is in the public interest” to issue the waiver “to continue the ability of intrastate and interstate CDL and CLP holders to transport goods and people, and to provide flexibilities to state driver licensing agencies to accelerate CDL testing.”
The waiver:
FMCSA noted that since March 2020, it has also issued a series of waivers from the requirement that a CLP holder be accompanied by a CDL holder in the front seat of the vehicle next to the CLP holder. The agency previously had issued such exemptions to an individual motor carrier that had applied for and been granted such relief. FMCSA is now returning to the previous practice of issuing such relief on a carrier-by-carrier basis only.
J.B. Hunt Transport Services (CCJ Top 250, No. 3) recently awarded $55,000 in total to 55 classrooms throughout the country during the 10th consecutive year of its Adopt-a-Class program.
