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What to Expect with New Trucking Rules in 2023

A look at the U.S. Department of Transportation Significant Rulemaking Report coupled with new Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration efforts in 2022 leads to one conclusion: 2023 will be a very big year for trucking regulations! And that’s even before viewing the Fall

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A Look Back at Trucking During 2022

At the beginning of 2022, the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration forecast several important rulemakings that did not come to full fruition. FMCSA would, according to the Fall 2021 edition of the Unified Regulatory Agenda, adopt regulations imposing time or mileage limits on the personal conveyance use of commercial motor

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What NHTSA’s New Rules for Cars Say about Trucks

In the U.S. Department of Transportation Significant Rulemakings Report released in September 2022, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration revealed important rulemakings for commercial motor vehicles. NHTSA also included a whole raft of significant rulemakings affecting the manufacturing standards for new passenger vehicles. Well, you might say, “at least there

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New Whitepaper: Understanding Electronic IDs for Trucks

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration is exploring a device that would allow roadside enforcement to electronically identify and perhaps monitor the condition of drivers and commercial motor vehicles on the highway. But it is also raising a lot of questions. The federal truck regulator is considering requiring interstate CMVs

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NHTSA Forecasts 3 Truck-Specific Significant Rulemakings

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has jurisdiction over the manufacturing standards for all new vehicles – cars, trucks, buses, and trailers. While the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) tells motor carriers how they must operate and maintain today’s vehicles, NHTSA rulemakings tell manufacturers how to equip those

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Safe Trucking with Old Man Winter

By: Steve Vaughn, vice president of field operations, PrePass Safety Alliance Old Man Winter is here… or maybe he is just peeking around the corner where you operate. Nothing to fear, though. You’ve got this – you are ready. Winter driving conditions mean all you and your team’s planning and

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Podcast #70: FMCSA Proposes New Electronic IDs for Most Trucks

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration is considering a plan that would require all trucks in interstate commerce to be equipped with devices that electronically transmit the identity of trucks to law enforcement. However, the proposal has raised several questions, including privacy concerns, and how this information would be used.

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Elections Don’t Change Truck Safety

By: Steve Vaughn, vice president of field operations, PrePass Safety Alliance November in an even-numbered year – election season. This year we have state and national mid-terms with a presidential election looming in 2024. Newspapers, websites, and TV talk shows are filled with pundits and polls. Who is up and

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Trucking Technology and Personal Responsibility

It’s become a caricature of today’s society – the human automatons, adorned with earbuds, eyes glued to cell phones. It has generated cartoons – the family at the dinner table, texting “pass the salt.” Technology has enveloped our life. For all its benefits – information, entertainment, automation – technology has,

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FMCSA Examining Electronic IDs for Trucks

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration has granted a petition from the Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance (CVSA) to consider requiring all interstate commercial motor vehicles (CMVs), trucks, and buses, to have devices installed that electronically transmit the identity of the vehicle. These “unique identification devices” (UIDs), also known as “universal

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FMCSA Seeks Answers on Truck ELDs

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration recently published an Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (ANPRM) to improve the clarity of existing regulations on electronic logging devices. The agency also wants to address some technical specification issues in response to trucking industry concerns. An ANPRM is a published notice in the

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Welcome FMCSA Administrator Hutcheson

The U.S. Senate has confirmed the nomination of Robin Hutcheson to become the Administrator of the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration. Administrator Hutcheson has served as FMCSA Deputy Administrator since mid-January 2022. In 2021, Hutcheson was the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Safety Policy for the U.S. Department of Transportation. As

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