Speak Now or Forever Hold Your Peace From time to time, The Department of Transportation (DOT) Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) will amend the Hazardous Materials Regulations (HMR) to “clarify, improve…, or streamline various regulatory requirements.” On March …
Will the SMS Receive an Overhaul In case you missed it, on February 15, 2023, the Department of Transportation’s (DOT) Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) published a Notice and Request for Comment on the proposed changes to the Safety …
Corrections, Removals, And Edits To start the new year with more clarity, The Department of Transportation’s (DOT) Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) released their annual Final Rule of editorial corrections to enhance accuracy and reduce misunderstandings related to …
Revisions to Civil Penalty Amounts They say only two things in life are certain, death…and taxes. I propose adding one more to that short list of certainties. Government Inflation Adjustments. Effective January 6, 2023, the Department of Transportation (DOT) has raised …
Webinar Round Up You may or may not recall back in March 2022, The Department of Transportation’s (DOT) Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) announced it would be answering questions and converting historical Letters of Interpretation regarding applicability of …
An Historic First For some Wednesday, November 9, 2022 was just another Wednesday. For others, it marked an historic first in the long history of female truck drivers. The U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT) and the Federal Motor Carrier Safety …
What Will Reign Supreme This Year? In similar fashion to the Occupational Health and Safety Administration’s (OSHA) Top 10 most cited standards, the American Transport Research Institute (ATRI) recently released their Top 10 Driver Concerns for fiscal year 2022. The …
Two for One You may remember back in August when we told you about the Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) the Department of Transportation’s (DOT) Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) published in the Federal Register over Railroad Staffing Requirements. Originally the …
Deja Vu In a seemingly never ending battle against Covid-19 and other communicable diseases, the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) has extend its Modified Emergency Declaration for the sixth time on August 31, 2022 until 11:59 EST on October …
But Don’t Lose Hope… As many of you know, back in May, the Department of Transportation (DOT) Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) issued a Notice of Enforcement Discretion addressing the lack of availability of certain types of tapes …