Comment Period Extended On October 28, 2024, the Department of Transportation’s (DOT) Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) published a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) to adopt several modal-specific amendments aimed at enhancing the safe transportation of hazardous materials …
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. …
Welcome to the 21st Century. The future is now! Recently published in the Federal Register, the Department of Transportation (DOT) Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) published a Notice and Request for Comment regarding the administration’s plan to submit the …
In Case You Didn’t Know. If you previously wanted to become a commercial motor vehicle (CMV) driver and obtain your commercial driver’s license (CDL), but thought it was out of reach due to your medical condition, or more specifically “epilepsy …
Lights, Camera, Action In a recent Notice and Request for Comment published in the Federal Register by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA), the FMCSA seeks to add 4 new crash types to its current Crash Preventability Determination Program …
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 …
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 …
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 …