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Conducting a CR is resource-intensive for FMCSA, and as a result only about 2% of active interstate carriers experience a CR any year. Now FMCSA is considering whether to expand how a Safety Fitness Determination can be made so that, potentially, more unfit carriers can be removed from the highways. FMCSA may decide to directly use SMS scores or CRs alone or the two in combination.
While FMCSA ponders how best to rate truckers, two members of the U.S. Senate have introduced a bill to establish a carrier selection standard for shippers, brokers and others until FMCSA completes a rulemaking to revise safety fitness determination standards.
Regulations are laws, period. That is, just as with laws, you must comply with the regulations or else face penalties or sanctions. Regulations just come from a different source than the statutes coming out of state legislatures or Congress.
A recent study by the University of Central Arkansas compared more than 936,000 truck driver pre-employment urine and hair test results. The tests results were submitted by motor carrier members of The Trucking Alliance, who, like ICSA Platinum Members, utilize hair testing as well as the federally mandated urine tests.
For nearly a decade, FMCSA and state commercial enforcement agencies have been pushing for a system of on-road inspections that will capture far more commercial vehicles than today’s random inspection system. The push for thorough pre-trip and wireless roadside inspections has intensified over the past year, ushering in a new era for truck inspections.
The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration has issued an alert that, effective immediately, a copy of a company officer’s own driver’s license must accompany the filing of MCS-150/150B/150Cand/or MCSA 5889 Forms.
ICSA members need to proactively plan for Brake Safety Week coming up in just three weeks’ time. The emphasis for Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance (CVSA) special enforcement will be brake lining/pad violations.
A recent decision by the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) means that there are now three major tests to determine whether a worker is an employee or an independent contractor.
Four years from now a new truck may come equipped with automatic emergency braking (AEB) and electronic stability control (ESC) technologies.