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Advocates for Highway and Auto Safety, Public Citizen, the Truck Safety Coalition and two truck drivers filed a lawsuit on Feb. 23 challenging the new FMCSA rule on hours of service for commercial drivers.
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MT. LAUREL, NJ - Last year served as a warning for fleets with large trucks to get ready for the significant compliance changes taking place in 2012 as mandated by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration's (FMCSA) Comprehensive Safety Analysis 2010 (CSA 2010).
Read More →The American Trucking Associations has filed a petition for review of the FMCSA's new hours-of-service rule for commerical truck drivers.
Read More →RESTON, VA - The number of commercial fleet operators that have adopted written policies pertaining to employee use of cell phones while driving on-the-job has increased 31 percent in the past nine months.
Read More →In a ZoomSafer survey, not only are more commercial fleet operators implementing on-the-job cell phone policies for their drivers, but more are enforcing established policies too. Part of the increase is likely due to the FMCSA’s recent ban on cell phone use while driving for commercial drivers.
Read More →WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of Transportation's FMCSA has ordered U & D Service, Inc. of Indianapolis, Ind., to immediately cease all transportation services in or affecting interstate commerce, declaring the commercial truck company an "imminent hazard" to public safety.
Read More →HERNDON, VA -- A new Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) rule went into effect Jan. 3 that prohibits an estimated 4 million interstate commercial truck and bus drivers from using handheld cell phones while driving. To help commercial fleet operators conform to the new regulation, software provider ZoomSafer has released “FMCSA Cell Phone Use Regulations: A Guide to Compliance for Truck and Bus Fleets.”
Read More →ARLINGTON, VA –The American Trucking Associations (ATA) released a statement last week that expressed its frustration and disappointment over the final FMCSA rule governing hours of service for truck drivers.
Read More →WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of Transportation's Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) has declared Maryland-based Gunthers Transport, LLC an imminent hazard to public safety and ordered the trucking company to immediately cease all transportation services.
Read More →WASHINGTON – The U.S. DOT's FMCSA issued a regulatory proposal requiring interstate commercial truck and bus companies to install electronic on-board recorders (EOBRs) to monitor their drivers’ hours-of-service (HOS) compliance.
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