As Mullen put it in his talk at last week’s Specialized Carriers & Rigging Association event: “We understand drivers need the flexibility to be as safe as they can. It’s clear the rigid rules do not work. We’re going to go forward with a final regu…
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The U.S. Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) has extended the compliance date for the Entry-Level Driver Training (ELDT) from Feb. 7, 2020, to Feb. 7, 2022. “This action will provide FMCSA additional time to complete …
The rule was set to go into effect in just two weeks — Feb. 7, 2020. It is now scheduled to take effect Feb. 7, 2022. The rule was made final in early 2017, with a three-year window before it took effect to allow FMCSA, trainers, fleets and states tim…
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Truck drivers could soon face oral fluid testing for controlled substances under a new directive from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The inclusion of oral fluid specimens to the Mandatory Guidelines for Federal Wor…
WASHINGTON – The U.S. Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration has raised the random drug testing rate for controlled substances for commercial drivers to 50% from the current 25% of driver positions. The change went into effect Jan. 1, an announcem…
With the FMCSA moving toward a study of the predominance of the issue of sex/gender- and/or race-related crimes and other harassing or discriminatory acts, one Kentucky researcher and former trucker, Kim Bourne, moves ahead with her own research into t…
The National Association of the Deaf is petitioning the FMCSA to remove the requirement for interstate truckers to be able to hear. Love’s reopened its Tacoma, Washington store, which has been closed since September 2018 for renovations.
The TruckerNation organization has told FMCSA it no longer wants to be involved with the “Our Roads, Our Safety” campaign. The move is intended to express disapproval of the agency’s reported intent to delay the Entry Level Driver Training rule by as m…
The provision of the CDL Drug and Alcohol Clearinghouse rule requiring states to query the database for CDL transactions has been delayed until 2023. The mobile Vietnam Veterans Memorial, The Wall That Heals, will once again tour the United States in p…
OSHA ordered UPS Freight to pay the driver $15,273 in compensatory damages, $30,000 in punitive damages and approximately $2,700 in back wages plus interest. The unnamed driver was fired for refusing to drive without an ELD, and his termination was lat…