Categories: Drivers, Electronic Logging Devices (ELDs), Fleet Management, Safety & Compliance

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration has officially issued a 90-day temporary waiver of the rule to carriers of agricultural commodities and...

https://www.truckinginfo.com/143467/fmcsa-gives-90-day-eld-waiver-to-ag-and-livestock-haulers

Categories: Drivers, Fleet Management, Safety & Compliance

NTSB's new “Most Wanted List” of safety improvements stresses the continuing need to reduce accidents caused by drivers who are impaired by alcohol and/or...

https://www.truckinginfo.com/133274/ntsb-cut-impaired-distracted-fatigued-driving

Categories: Drivers, Fleet Management, Safety & Compliance

The FMCSA has proposed that drivers with controlled insulin-treated diabetes mellitus be permitted to operate commercial motor vehicles without first...

https://www.truckinginfo.com/129287/proposed-rule-would-simplify-insulin-exemption-for-drivers

Categories: Drivers

Did FMCSA get its revisions to the Hours of Service rule right this time? To find out, HDT Talks Trucking put that question to Jerad Childress of Childress...

https://www.truckinginfo.com/10147892/did-fmcsa-get-hours-of-service-right-this-time

Categories: Drivers, Electronic Logging Devices (ELDs), Fleet Management, Operations, Safety, Safety & Compliance

The House Transportation Committee has attached a directive to this year’s Transportation, Housing and Urban Development (THUD) appropriations bill that...

https://www.truckinginfo.com/141324/could-house-bill-slow-or-even-stop-eld-rule

Categories: Drivers, Fleet Management, Safety & Compliance

The Federal Motor Carrier Administration is seeking public comment on whether it should eliminate the requirement that drivers with insulin-treated diabetes...

https://www.truckinginfo.com/141606/fmcsa-moving-toward-dropping-diabetic-exemption-requirement

Categories: Drivers, Fleet Management

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration has announced a final rule that simplifies for current and former military personnel the process for...

https://www.truckinginfo.com/137205/fmcsa-new-final-rule-eases-way-to-cdls-for-military-vets

Categories: Drivers, Electronic Logging Devices (ELDs), Fleet Management, Safety & Compliance, Telematics

Not just the illegally unprepared may feel the shock starting April 1, when full enforcement of the electronic logging device rule kicks in. That’s because...

https://www.automotive-fleet.com/279396/impact-of-full-eld-enforcement-a-firehose-of-violations

Categories: Drivers, Operations

ATA sees the truck driver shortage as a problem for the entire supply chain as 71.4% of all freight tonnage is moved by truck.

https://www.truckinginfo.com/336896/ata-truck-driver-shortage-threatens-supply-chain

Categories: Drivers, Safety, Safety & Compliance

A new report prepared by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine advises the FMCSA to improve data and research methods “to support a...

https://www.worktruckonline.com/134124/eye-opener-report-fmcsa-should-boost-driver-fatigue-research