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FMCSA raises safety requirements for new truck, bus companies
Jan 5, 2010

Enforcement is now underway for the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration’s (FMCSA’s) New Entrant Safety Assurance Process rule, which requires newly registered truck and bus companies to meet stricter safety requirements. This final rule raises the compliance standards for passing new entrant safety audits and requires that new carriers correct safety deficiencies before being granted permanent registration...

CSA 2010 Preview Scorecard offers early look at safety data
Dec 1, 2009

Vigillo LLC announces its new CSA 2010 Preview Scorecard. This offering provides trucking companies with an advance look at their fleet safety data that will be included in the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration's (FMCSA) new CSA 2010 (Comprehensive Safety Analysis 2010) initiative...

FMCSA to add fifth option to roadability final rule
Dec 1, 2009

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) has responded to a petition for reconsideration of the final roadability rule and will amend the regulations to allow a fifth intermodal equipment marking option...

Wetlines markup occurring November 19
Nov 18, 2009

Congressional markup of the proposed tank trailer wetlines legislation should proceed on Thursday, November 19. Markup comes just days after what has been termed a very productive field trip to a Baltimore MD cargo tank repair shop and a public hearing convened by Rep Corrine Brown (D-FL), chairman of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Subcommittee on Railroads, Pipelines, and Hazardous Materials...

FMCSA preempts Boston’s hazmat routing restrictions
Nov 18, 2009

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) granted the American Trucking Association’s (ATA’s) preemption petition challenging the City of Boston’s hazardous materials transportation restrictions on the grounds that Boston failed to comply with the federal requirements for designating hazardous materials routes...

Wetlines bill gets
a brief delay
Nov 11, 2009

Faced with stiff industry opposition, Rep James Oberstar D-MN and his staffers on the House of Representatives Transportation and Infrastructure Committee delayed the wetlines legislation markup that was set for Nov 5. This is just a temporary delay for House bill HR4016, which would ban wetlines on all tank trailers that handle hazardous materials...

House approval
of chemical security
act disappoints NACD
Nov 10, 2009

After the US House of Representatives approval of HR 2868, the Chemical and Water Security Act of 2009, the National Association of Chemical Distributors (NACD) issued this statement...

Wetlines legislation markup set for Nov 5
Nov 4, 2009

Markup of the wetlines legislation will begin Thursday, November 5, according to officials on the House of Representatives Transportation and Infrastructure Committee. This is one of the last opportunities for the tank truck industry to promote changes to make the legislation more tolerable...

Cap-and-trade will do little
to cut emissions, ATA says
Oct 29, 2009

Proposed cap-and-trade legislation will impose significant costs on the trucking industry and all consumers while doing little to reduce carbon emissions from trucking, American Trucking Associations (ATA) First Vice-Chairman Barbara Windsor said at a press conference on Capitol Hill...

FMCSA will rewrite
HOS regulations
Oct 28, 2009

Here we go again on driver Hours of Service (HOS) regulations. A new rule is coming from the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA), and the wrangling may never end....

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