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The nation's top trucking regulator told lawmakers she is committed to taking concrete steps to reduce deaths and injuries from large-truck crashes. At her nomination hearing on Wednesday to be the seventh administrator of the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, Meera Joshi, currently...

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It came as no surprise when, on August 31, the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) extended its waivers to continue to provide flexibility during the COVID-19 pandemic. For the last year and a half, federal regulators have heeded calls from industry stakeholders to allow for the...

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration has tacked on another three months to its emergency declaration waiving some hours-of-service rules for pandemic-related trucking. The waiver that was first put into effect in March 2020 and was extended several times was to expire Tuesday. But it...

With another extension of the emergency hours-of-service waiver looming, federal regulators want the trucking industry to let them know to what extent carriers and drivers are actually taking advantage of the exemption. The first-of-its-kind, 50-state exemption was originally issued by the Federal...

A review board that advises federal regulators on medical standards for truck drivers recommends stricter standards for drivers with vision loss than originally proposed. The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration's Medical Review Board (MRB), a five-member panel of physicians that provides...

Werner Enterprises is banking on a commercial learner's permit (CPL) exemption not only to boost operational productivity but to help the company get its drivers employed faster. In an application filed with the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration in July, the Omaha, Nebraska-based...

Have you heard about the looming 3G sunset? This upcoming transition, which will largely take place in early 2022, has the potential to dramatically disrupt electronic logging device (ELD) communications for hundreds of thousands of devices. You can avoid being left without a functional device by...

Gaps in how the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration oversees state CDL programs threaten the agency's ability to prevent large truck crashes, a federal watchdog agency warns. A performance audit conducted by the U.S. Department of Transportation's Office of Inspector General (OIG) between...

Approximately 51,000 motor carriers have already received common or contract carrier authority through June, making 2021 likely to surpass 2020's calendar-year record of 59,000, according to transport consultancy FTR, which analyzed data from the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA...

The trucking industry's top safety regulator plans to step up its communications with state agencies and training schools before next year's compliance date for new entry-level driver training (ELDT) requirements. In a final rule to be published on Wednesday formalizing the Feb. 7, 2022, extension...

Livestock shippers are asking the Biden administration to issue an emergency waiver of work-rule restrictions for truckers hauling both livestock and meat products to avoid transportation delays in the wake of the cyberattack on global meat supplier JBS. In a letter sent Wednesday to Secretary of...

High rates of work zone crashes involving large trucks in Florida, Georgia and Texas have earned those states special attention from federal regulators this week as part of a national safety campaign. Motorists in those states can expect to hear public service announcements and see safety...

An overwhelming number of drivers with drug and alcohol violations have failed to complete the federal return-to-duty process, a trend that could have trucking capacity implications down the road. Statistics released this week by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) reveal that...

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) will be taking a long look at last-mile delivery trucks' involvement in crashes, given trends revealing a jump in the use of such vehicles in interstate commerce. Commenting on those plans following a presentation on small-truck crashes...