The American Transportation Research Institute (ATRI), the trucking industry's not-for-profit research organization, today launched a new data collection initiative to create a database of motor carrier crash costs by crash type and severity. Read more

 

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration and the Federal Railroad Administration jointly announced that the agencies are seeking public comment during the next 90 days on the impacts of screening, evaluating, and treating CMV drivers and rail workers for obstructive sleep apnea. Read more

 

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration announced that it had commissioned a study of its safety performance scoring system. Read more

 

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration will issue a proposed rule to amend commercial driver license regulations that would ease the transition of military personnel into civilian careers in the truck and bus industry. Read more

 

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration has extended the public comment period for its proposed rule on safety fitness determinations for motor carriers. Read more

 

The American Trucking Associations has opened the nominating process for professional truck drivers to serve on the 2017-2018 America’s Road Team. Read more

 

Early next week, motor carriers’ Safety Measurement System absolute measures in each BASIC will once again become publicly available via the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration’s Compliance, Safety, Accountability website. Read more

 

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration jointly published a notice in the Federal Register on March 2 seeking comment on their proposal to tighten greenhouse-gas emissions for trucks. Read more

 

On January 21 the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration issued a proposed safety fitness determination rule that would use data from agency and roadside inspections and investigations, or both, in evaluating on a monthly basis whether a carrier is fit to operate. Read more

 

The Senate Commerce Committee has scheduled a vote March 3 on Scott Darling’s nomination to be administrator of the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration. Read more

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