The new Hours of Service changes are scheduled to take effect as of Sept. 29. FMCSA’s final rule on hours of service makes four key revisions to the existing HOS rules: The 30-minute break rule, which requires a break after no more than eight hours of consecutive...
There are three components that make up fleet safety, which includes drivers, vehicles, and policy. The third component, fleet policy, should make some consideration to fleet safety. Fleet policy must address several key elements: Who: Which employee is assigned a...
DOT Issues Emergency Declaration for Commercial Vehicles Delivering Coronavirus Relief In a historic first, the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration issued a national emergency declaration to provide hours-of-service regulatory relief to commercial vehicle...
Based on evidence it has accumulated that points to “a serious pattern of harassment- and assault-related crimes against female and minority male truckers,” the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration announced on Feb. 28 its intention to study the “prevalence,...
The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration announced on Feb. 21 that just weeks after it launched, there are “encouraging results” from the new Trucker Drug and Alcohol Clearinghouse, which is designed to keep tabs on substance-abuse tests required of commercial...
