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FMCSA shutdown order tossed in court, fleet allowed to resume work
A Department of Transportation judge has tossed out a shutdown order issued by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, allowing the Illinois-based DND International to resume its operations.
April 17, 2014
Business
State agency nominees sought for UCR board
The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration is seeking four state chief administration officers overseeing the Unified Carrier Registration Plan to serve on the plan’s board.
April 17, 2014
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Driver coercion rule expected this month, speed limiter and Safety Fitness rules could see action soon
The driver coercion prevention rule bouncing around the regulatory circuit could be published this month, according to a Department of Transportation rulemaking update released this week. The speed limiter mandate rule and the Safety Fitness Determination rule could see action next month.
April 16, 2014
Business
FMCSA subcommittee to meet to develop potential changes for CSA
FMCSA’s subcommittee for its Compliance, Safety, Accountability program will meet April 29-30 to develop recommendations for changes to the program, its scoring system and the intervention process.
April 14, 2014
Business
Inspection Data Systems to develop mobile equipment inspection apps
Tom Heine, CEO of Aljex Software, announced the launch of a new transportation technology company, Inspection Data Systems, Inc. (IDS) that will develop and market cloud-based transportation equipment inspection solutions for smartphones and tablets.
April 14, 2014
Business
Senator calls for audit of FMCSA’s investigations
U.S. Senator Dick Durbin has asked the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Inspector General to audit FMCSA’s investigative practices, to ensure carriers flagged for intervention are investigated “in a timely manner.”
April 10, 2014
Business
Agency rescinds hours rule exemptions for propane haulers in 31 states
The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration has cancelled the Congressionally implemented hours of service waivers for propane haulers and home heating fuel haulers in 31 of the 36 states where exemptions were granted.
April 10, 2014
Business
Coalition takes opposition to truck weight increases to Capitol, questions DOT review
With Congress hard at work on the next surface transportation reauthorization, a coalition of public health and safety groups, truck drivers, law enforcement and families of truck crash victims took time from their Capitol Hill rounds Wednesday to oppose any increases to federal truck size and weight limits.
April 9, 2014
Business
OOIDA petitions FMCSA to delay driver compliance with medical examiner rule
The Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association has filed a legal petition asking the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration to push back the compliance date of the medical examiner registry rule until more agency-certified examiners are available for truck operators.
April 8, 2014
Business
ATRI seeking driver feedback for hours of service, detention time studies
The American Transportation Research Institute announced this week it’s looking for input from truck operators on the impacts of the current hours of service rule and about detention time for two separate studies it’s working on.
April 8, 2014
Business
NTSB safety rec’s to NHTSA include blind spot mitigation, underride guards, trailer data collection
The National Transportation Safety Board is recommending that regulations be put in place to require new trucks to be equipped with systems to boost blind spot awareness and side and rear underride guards and to require that better data be collected on trailers involved in crashes.
April 7, 2014
Business
Agency reinstating ‘informal hearings’ as mechanism to challenge violations
The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration has reinstated informal hearings as an additional way to contest enforcement cases, and this time the option is available nationwide.
April 4, 2014
Business
Study recommends separate natgas GHG standard, trailer aero mandate
Expanding the use of natural gas as a transportation fuel and greater use of aerodynamic devices on trailers are among the strategies recommended by a new National Research Council report for reducing fuel consumption by tractor-trailers, transit buses, commercial vehicles, trucks, and other medium- and heavy-duty vehicles.
April 4, 2014
Business
Med cards from Georgia examiner invalidated by agency, drivers must recertify
CDL holders who received medical certification from Dr. Paul Besdansky in Garden City, Ga., must be reexamined and certified by another medical examiner, the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration has announced.
April 3, 2014
Business
ELD mandate: Public comments split so far in support of, against rule
The public comment period for the ELD mandate proposal opened Friday, March 28, and as of April 3, 20 comments had already been submitted. Commenters have come down on both sides of the issue, with some saying the mandate is a needed safety mechanism and others dismissing the rule as unnecessarily burdensome and an intrusion of privacy.
April 3, 2014
Business
FMCSA shuts down carrier for ‘widespread, serious violations’ hours violations
FMCSA has issued a shut down order to DND International for systematic hours violations and logbook falsification violations. The order comes as a follow-up to a shut down order issued to one of its drivers in February, following a fatal crash.
April 3, 2014
Business
Congressmen ask GAO to study FMCSA’s hours rule research, methodology
Two members of Congress have asked the Government Accountability Office to evaluate studies done by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration on the most recent hours of service regulations changes, which took effect last year, to check the agency’s research and methods used to create and back the rule.
April 2, 2014
Business
ITS Compliance receives private equity investment
ITS Compliance Inc., an outsourced provider of compliance, safety, and asset management services for truck fleets, announced it received an aggregate investment of $5.75 million from Argentum and First Analysis, private equity growth investors.
April 1, 2014
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