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Lightening the load: new options to outsource compliance
As the transportation industry continues to go electronic, third party service providers see increased demand from fleets to hand over controls for managing information
July 26, 2016
Business
Court date set for ELD lawsuit
The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals is set to hear oral arguments in September in OOIDA’s quest to overturn the DOT’s electronic logging device mandate.
July 25, 2016
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Business
Two hours exemptions extended to five years
FMCSA extended hours exemptions for the Department of Energy and WestRock to five years from the date the exemptions were granted.
July 22, 2016
Business
Inspection regulations see minor changes
FMCSA amended its several provisions in its FMCSRs mainly for clarification purposes, and in doing so, removed the ability for carriers to use roadside inspections as their annual inspections, among several other changes.
July 21, 2016
Business
FMCSA extends some regulatory waivers, makes some hours exemptions permanent
FMCSA, in compliance with the FAST Act of 2015, has made permanent some hours of service exemptions and instituted several other regulatory changes.
July 21, 2016
Business
DOT delays online carrier registration system implementation until January
Kelly Regal, FMCSA associate administrator of research and information technology, said the agency is updating its IT systems and migrating existing data to new servers, which is causing the delay from the previous implementation date of Sept. 30.
July 20, 2016
Business
DOT still projects CDL clearinghouse, speed limiter rules for summer publication
Rules to implement a CDL Drug and Alcohol Clearinghouse and to mandate speed limiters on Class 8 trucks are still set to be published this summer, according to the latest regulatory report from the DOT.
July 18, 2016
Business
Senate confirms Scott Darling as head of FMCSA
The U.S. Senate on July 14 confirmed by voice vote T.F. Scott Darling as the new administrator of the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration. Darling has run the agency on an interim basis since the August 2014 departure of Anne Ferro.
July 16, 2016
Business
OSHA fines increasing by 78 percent for inflation adjustment
The increase in fines stems from a Congressional directive passed in November 2015 that requires agencies to publish “catch-up” rules to make up for inflation. The increase for OSHA’s penalties is the first since 1990.
July 14, 2016
Business
FMCSA floats proposal to up CSA crash threshold to three crashes
In addition to the two-year program intended to test the feasibility of removing certain non-preventable crashes from carriers’ CSA scores, the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration this week also announced a proposed methodological change to the CSA Crash Indicator BASIC. The change, if finalized, would raise the minimum number of crashes to three — from the current two — needed before a carrier receives a Crash Indicator BASIC rating.
July 14, 2016
Business
Texas Roadcheck results provide glimpse of overall inspection blitz results
The Texas Department of Public Safety said it inspected 7,795 commercial vehicles during the three-day inspection effort held June 7-9 nationwide and placed 1,751 of these vehicles out-of-service.
July 13, 2016
Business
Comment period opens for FMCSA plan to allow carriers to contest crashes in CSA
The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration published July 12 in the U.S. Federal Register the preliminary details of its plan for a two-year program that will allow carriers to potentially scrub certain types of non-preventable crashes from their CSA Crash Indicator BASIC scores.
July 12, 2016
Business
10 toughest states for hours of service in 2015
2015’s data shows an upward trend in the hours of service violations doled out by the top 10 states. When reporting began in the CSA’s Data Trail series in 2013 — a joint effort by CCJ and Overdrive — just three states were above the 20 percent mark for hours violations. Seven of the 10 are above that threshold now.
July 11, 2016
Business
FMCSA planning program to add long-wanted ‘crash accountability’ to CSA, at least temporarily
The lack of crash accountability in CSA — namely, using crashes that were in no way the fault of carriers against them in their CSA percentile rankings — has been one of the trucking industry’s chief complaints against the CSA program. A two-year program planned by FMCSA would change that, at least during the time of the test.
July 7, 2016
Business
Comment period for sleep apnea ‘pre-rule’ closes July 8
The comment period was extended from the original June 8 deadline to give commenters the chance to study and analyze the results of a study by the American Transportation Research Institute. ATRI’s study, produced via surveys of drivers, concluded that a sleep apnea testing referral made by a medical examiner can cost a trucker upwards of a $1,000 in out-of-pocket expenses — more than a week’s pay, the report notes.
July 1, 2016
Business
FMCSA grants hours exemption to fireworks haulers
The exemption allows the companies to extend the 14-hour on-duty window by excluding mid-period off-duty or sleeper-berth time of any length.
June 30, 2016
Business
Military vets with driving experience get full year to waive CDL skills test
Military veterans looking to transition into commercial driving after their service now have up to a year after leaving the military to waive the CDL skills test.
June 28, 2016
Business
FMCSA adjusts fines for violations based on inflation
Some fines are higher than previous years, and some are lower, as the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration made the adjustments.
June 27, 2016
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