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Operation Safe Driver Week aims to improve driver behavior through traffic enforcement, direct interaction with law enforcement...
Officers issued 3,409 warnings and 1,956 tickets/citations to commercial motor vehicle drivers, compared to just 559 warnings...
Petitions have led to the amendment of a final rule by FMCSA. OOIDA was among those opposed to the previous change.
FMCSA has restored the automatic HOS exemption period for truckers providing direct assistance during regional emergencies to 30 days. The post FMCSA restores 30-day HOS relief for truckers during emergencies appeared first on FreightWaves .
FMCSA Chief Derek Barrs gave an update on the CDL crackdown and heard about brokers' role in trucking's fraud problem, among an...
FMCSA has granted several exemptions allowing commercial learner’s permit drivers to operate without a CDL holder in the passenger seat. Not this time.
Final rule from the U.S. Department of Transportation provides the industry with an additional pathway to improve transportation safety and regulatory flexibility.
'Operation Saturday Night Fever' puts 78 drivers, 25 trucks OOS. Also: FMCSA denies ag-support fleet's request for pre-CDL operating...
DOT says it wants to remove unsafe truck drivers from the road. Operation Saturday Night Fever led to 78 drivers being taken out of service.
Carriers whose updates were due on or after June 1 have more time, while FMCSA works to stabilize its new registration system and warns of phishing sites impersonating its new carrier registration system, Motus.
Federal regulators also are targeting more than 160 additional training providers and launching a nationwide audit of third-party CDL skills testers as part of a broader crackdown on trucking fraud.
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration says it lacks authority to regulate medium- and heavy-duty truck engines separately from complete vehicles, but the existing standards have not yet been eliminated.
Medical-card violations jumped to the top of the driver out-of-service list during CVSA’s 2026 International Roadcheck, while English-language proficiency violations appeared among the leading violations for the first time.
Fleets and drivers must replace the revoked ELDs with ones on the FMCSA's registered device list of electronic logging devices.
By changing regulations on English-language proficiency requirements for commercial drivers, rather than relying on a guidance memo, the FMCSA said future administrations won't be able to walk back the Trump administration's stricter enforcement with just a memo.