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California Approves Advanced Clean Fleet Rules for Trucks

The California Air Resources Board (CARB) unanimously approved its Advanced Clean Fleet (ACF) rules in late April, setting the stage for the state to completely ban the use of diesel-powered trucks. The CARB goal is that all fleets operating in that state will be 100% electric by 2035, 2040 or

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PrePass Insider Newsletter – May 2023

The PrePass Insider newsletter is your monthly digest of trucking news and everything PrePass. Not subscribed to this newsletter? Subscribe now.  Truckers Beware! CBD Use May Cause Career Altering Side Effects Sales of products containing CBD are soaring across the country, topping more than $4 billion in 2022. Advocates claim using

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Feds OK Rules for Oral Fluids Drug Testing of Truck Drivers

The U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT) has issued a Final Rule on oral fluids testing. The new drug testing method will apply to safety-sensitive employees subject to federal drug and alcohol testing rules. The notice makes corresponding changes in the modal regulations of the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA),

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FMCSA Updates Crash Preventability Determination Program

The mission statement of the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration is to “reduce crashes, injuries, and fatalities involving large trucks and buses.” FMCSA undertakes that mission largely by identifying motor carriers and commercial motor vehicle (CMV) drivers with safety records that indicate they need attention or even intervention. FMCSA determines

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Learn How Your Trucking Operation Can Save Money on Toll Costs

Today more than 50 toll authorities operate in the United States, and the amount of tolls they collect is growing at a very fast rate. In the past decade, consumer prices have increased more than 20%, but toll costs rose by an even greater margin, more than 70%! During this

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FMCSA Flagging Motor Carriers That Haven’t Updated Government Form

By Steve Vaughn, vice president of field operations, PrePass Safety Alliance The football season may be over – at least for colleges and the NFL – but “flags” are flying at the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration. The agency is “flagging” motor carriers which have not updated their MCS-150 forms

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Trucking Faced with ‘Weighty’ Issues, Part 2

In this two-part series, we look at the state and federal trucking regulations from a weight standpoint. The first installment discussed state efforts to mandate electric vehicles (EVs), specifically electric trucks. In this second part, we examine the impending federal rulemaking on side underride guards. Whatever the purpose of a

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Trucking Faced with ‘Weighty’ Issues, Part 1

Truck weights are under attack. No, we are not witnessing a return to the trucking vs. railroad battles of the 1970s and 1980s. That’s when the standard maximum truck weight rose from 73,280 pounds to today’s 80,000 pounds and when twin 28-foot trailer combinations and 53-foot semitrailers became legal nationwide,

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