FMCSA is seeking comments on current regulations for commercial motor vehicle (CMV) carriers of property that cover public liability, property damage and environmental restoration, and carriers of passengers to cover public liability and property damage, to ensure an understanding of the sectors’ minimum levels of financial responsibility..... 

According to Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) rules, the Agency may grant an exemption from various Federal Motor Carrier Safety Regulations (FMCSRs) for a two-year period if it finds “such exemption would likely achieve a level of safety that is equivalent to or greater than... 

Last month, the U.S. DOT and FMCSA released its Roadside Intervention Effectiveness Model (RIEM) analysis for 2012, based on the commercial vehicle roadside safety inspections and traffic enforcement programs conducted over the year..... 

U DRIVE. U TEXT. U PAY. is the 2016 national Distracted Driving Awareness Month slogan to stress again to drivers, the dangers of not concentrating on driving. According to the National Law Enforcement Liaison Program (LEL), “at any given daylight moment across America, approximately 660,000 drivers are using cell phones or manipulating electronic devices while driving, a number that has held steady since 2010. Distracted driving has become a deadly epidemic... 

Every year in April, at the start of the spring season, National Work Zone Awareness Week provides an opportunity for the highway industry to remind the motoring public about safety while driving through work zones.... 

The American Trucking Associations’ (ATA) For-Hire Truck Tonnage Index climbed 7.2% in February to 144, a record high. This follows a 0.3% dip in January (revised from an originally reported 1.4% decline). The index in February is up 8.6% compared to February 2015..... 

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) is holding two public listening sessions in order to solicit information from transportation industry stakeholders on the potential benefits and feasibility of voluntary compliance in promoting safety beyond FMCSA standard regulations – Section 5222 of the Fixing America’s Surface Transportation – FAST Act..... 

Volvo Trucks North America has issued a safety recall for vehicles equipped with a greaseable two-piece steering shaft manufactured by Willi Elbe, and the company is directing owners of the vehicles to take them out of service. The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA), issuing its own Urgent Inspection Bulletin, calls this a “critical safety defect that could severely affect the safe operation of these vehicles due to a faulty two-piece steering shaft....