Something Every Industry Can Get Behind In case you didn’t know, the Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance (CVSA) is hosting it’s annual U.S. Human Trafficking Awareness Initiative (HTAI) from January 8, 2024 to January 12, 2024. Human trafficking is something rarely …
Revisions to Civil Penalty Amounts New year, new penalty amount? There is an old colloquialism that says, “Only two things in life are certain: death and taxes.” Well, I am pretty sure we can add the increase to civil penalty …
How Will The Changes Effect You? The Department of Transportation’s (DOT) Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) recently released their FINAL RULE revising the emergency exemption rules to narrow its scope of safety regulations from which drivers are exempt from. …
Time Is Running Out In case you didn’t know, there is just 8 short days left to submit your remarks for the forthcoming Lithium Battery Air Safety Advisory Committee Public Meeting which takes place November 2, 2023. The Department of …
They Really Want to Know You may recall in July; the Department of Transportation (DOT) Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) released an Advanced Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (ANPRM) seeking comments on 46 topics related to modernizing regulations to …
Come One, Come All On September 19, 2023, the Department of Transportation’s (DOT) Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) published a Notice of advisory committee meeting of the Gas Pipeline Advisory Committee (GPAC) to discuss the notices of proposed …
Going, Going, Gone Some of you may recall the long battle of transportation of Liquified Natural Gas (LNG) by rail. It was originally thought to have been settled by the Final Rule published to the federal register in July 2020. …
Incident Reporting and Notification You may 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 (LOI) regarding many subjects related …
What’s Your Opinion? In case you missed it, On June 27, 2023 the Department of Transportation (DOT) Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) announced a Notice of Propose Rulemaking (NPRM) aimed at keeping first responders safer and improving public …
What’s on the Agenda? It’s likely that at some point you may have visited the Federal Register to see what is happening in the regulatory world. It’s also likely that you quickly became overwhelmed by the amount of options and …