The validity of a rule proposed by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration that would increase the use of inspection data in making Safety Fitness Determinations for motor carriers has been challenged by a coalition of eight associations representing trucking interests. The group of stakeholders, which includes the Western States Trucking Association and the National Association of Small Trucking Companies, contends that “FMCSA plans to ignore the clear mandates of the FAST Act [the recently passed highway bill] when it opens a rulemaking this month that would change existing standards for determining the safety fitness of individual motor carriers.”
