Legal challenge to PSP dies at Supreme Court
The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to hear an appeal by a group of truck drivers who had challenged the Pre-employment Screening Program...
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Jun 19, 2017
FMCSA proposes to relax certain restrictions on CDLs, permits
In separate notices of proposed rulemaking (NPRMs), the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration has proposed to give states more...
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Jun 12, 2017
FMCSA proposes pilot program to test sleeper berth flexibility
The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration has proposed a pilot program to allow a very limited number of truck drivers – around 200...
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Jun 5, 2017
Driver training rule finally confirmed
After three delays to allow for a review, the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration has allowed the final rule on minimum standards...
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Jun 5, 2017
FMCSA drops effort to increase insurance minimums
The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration has withdrawn its November 2014 advance notice of proposed rulemaking (ANPRM) that had...
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Jun 2, 2017
Congress ignores big trucking issues in funding plan
The compromise legislation (H.R. 244) passed by Congress to fund the U.S. government through the end of September breaks little ground on...
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May 5, 2017
FMCSA recommends dropping universal new entrant audits
Citing a desire to target intervention based on risk, the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration is recommending that Congress drop...
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May 4, 2017
FMCSA withdraws another rulemaking initiative
A little over a month after the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) cancelled its proposed rule on safety fitness...
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May 2, 2017
FMCSA withdraws another rulemaking initiative
The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration has withdrawn its notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) to change the process for carrier...
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Mar 22, 2017
FMCSA confirms denial of bid to modify driver training rule
The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration has, in effect, confirmed an earlier denial of a petition for reconsideration of the...
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Feb 10, 2017
FMCSA rejects appeal to modify driver training rule
In one of his final acts as head of the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, then-Administrator Scott Darling denied a petition...
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Jan 26, 2017
Unions seek more time to review hair testing exemption
A group representing unionized workers in transportation industries wasted no time in asking the Federal Motor Carrier Safety...
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Jan 24, 2017
Several carriers propose pre-employment hair testing
The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration has requested comment by February 21, 2017, on a request by six trucking companies that...
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Jan 20, 2017
Moratorium to delay driver training rule
As expected, among President Trump's first actions as president was to declare a moratorium that generally directs federal agencies to...
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Jan 20, 2017
Court denies rehearing on ELDs
A federal appeals court has rejected a request that it rehear a challenge to the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration's rule...
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Jan 13, 2017
