Regulators at DOT posted a flurry of proposed rules on Tuesday. (Photo: John Gallagher/FreightWaves) WASHINGTON — The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration is proposing 18 rule changes aimed at ...

Regulators are taking steps to clarify truck safety regulations. (Photo: Jim Allen/FreightWaves) WASHINGTON — The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration is making changes to two truck safety ...

Intelligent Motorist Alert Messaging Systems is requesting a five-year exemption from federal requirements governing ...

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration is seemingly slowing down in its efforts to develop a proposed rule to potentially mandate speed limiters on heavy-duty trucks. In the Spring 2024 ...

FMCSA said Colorado issued more than 20% of such licenses wrongly, and now the state could lose $24.5 million in federal ...

Jack Van Steenburg has a trucking company client with a problem: The motor carrier has no safety rating. It stands to lose a major customer because of this. Yet having no safety rating is the rule ...

FMCSA has provisionally renewed an hours-of-service exemption to railroad associations. Should the exemption be allowed?

FMCSA last week either extended or launched new regional emergency declarations that, in total, cover nearly half the country ...

The agency will conduct a controlled experiment on a closed course to study the effects of warning devices to help determine ...

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration announced new changes to its impending Compliance, Safety, Accountability program overhaul. This time, FMCSA followed trucking industry feedback to help ...

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration has granted a petroleum company and a large convenience store chain five-year exemptions to operate their trucks using a pulsating brake light system ...

Electronic logging systems have become standard in the process of monitoring driver hours, and not all commercial drivers and ...