FMCSA

A group representing trucking and other companies with 50 employees or less has been denied an exemption from the federal electronic logging device (ELD) mandate. The exemption, filed by the Small Business in Transportation Coalition (SBTC), received nearly 2,000 comments after it was posted in...

Trucking companies and owner-operators looking to participate in response efforts in the wake of a major storm heading for the U.S. Gulf Coast will not be subject to federal hours-of-service (HOS) rules, according to regulators. The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) issued an...

The head of the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA), throwing cold water on any agency support to legislate a national hiring standard for motor carriers, said it is FMCSA's goal to improve its safety scorecard known as "CSA" and let shippers, brokers and third-party logistics...

Federal regulators are considering giving states more flexibility to conduct commercial driver's license (CDL) skills tests to reduce testing delays, cut costs for third-party testers and applicants, and speed driver hiring. The proposal, announced by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety...

The federal government's primary trucking regulator conceded to lawmakers that it may be difficult to get enough qualified participants in its pilot project for drivers under 21 to make the project viable. Testifying before the U.S. Senate Commerce Committee on June 19, Federal Motor Carrier...

The International Brotherhood of Teamsters union has joined the majority of early commenters rejecting a proposed pilot program to lower the restriction for an interstate commercial driver's license (CDL) from 21 to 18. Roughly 75 percent of the 180 comments filed so far – just days after Federal...

  Federal regulators have agreed to begin inspecting rear guards on trucks as part of routine annual inspections as recommended by the Government Accountability Office (GAO). The recommendation, made to the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA), was one of four published by the...

  LOUISVILLE, Kentucky. Compared to previous sessions at trade shows, Joe DeLorenzo's time in front of the trucking industry at the Mid-America Trucking Show in Louisville on March 28, 2019, must have seemed like a breeze. The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration's (FMCSA)...

California and the International Brotherhood of Teamsters (IBT) have both filed petitions with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit challenging the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration's (FMCSA) December announcement pre-empting the state's meal and rest break rules for...

A new petition drive has been launched on the White House petition site hoping to convince the Trump administration to look at exempting small motor carriers and owner-operators from the electronic logging device (ELD) regulation. While the petition itself is asking for a pair of bills to be...

Last fall, the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) made public the results of a survey that showed no wait times, beyond a 14-day federal and various state-mandated wait times, for new truck drivers taking their behind-the-wheel skills test to obtain a commercial driver's...

Mandating the use of electronic logging devices (ELDs) was aimed ultimately at reducing accidents and improving safety, but new research shows mixed results toward that goal so far. An academic team led by Alex Scott, assistant professor of supply chain management at Northeastern University's D...