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Robin Hutcheson Category: Person Description: Deputy Administrator of the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration. Page Sections: Article Index |
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| 3 February 2022 | Commercial Driver's License Standards: Regulatory Guidance Concerning Third Party Testers Conducting the Knowledge Test FMCSA amends its regulatory guidance to explain that FMCSA's current statutory authorities and regulations do not prohibit third party testers from administering the commercial driver's license knowledge tests for all classes and endorsements. | Federal Register Notice  (text)Agency: Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration Byline: Robin Hutcheson |
| 25 February 2022 | Accident Reporting: Change to Regulatory Guidance Concerning the Use of the Term Medical Treatment The revised guidance explains that an x-ray examination is a diagnostic procedure and should no longer be considered “medical treatment” in determining whether a crash should be included on a motor carrier's accident register. | Federal Register Notice (text) Agency: Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration Byline: Robin Hutcheson |
| 28 February 2022 | Hours of Service of Drivers: Mountain Blade Runner Helicopters, LLC (MBR Helicopters); Application for Exemption MBR Helicopters requested relief from the 14-hour “driving window” rule and the requirement that drivers have 10 consecutive hours off duty at the end of the work shift. | Federal Register Notice (text) Agency: Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration Byline: Robin Hutcheson |
| 1 March 2022 | Commercial Driver's License Skills Testing: Application for Exemption; American Association of Motor Vehicle Administrators (AAMVA) AAMVA requested a multi-year exemption on behalf of the State Driver Licensing Agencies in Maryland, New Hampshire, and Virginia to allow the three States to continue using revised Commercial Driver's License CDL pre-trip vehicle inspection and revised control skills test procedures following the completion of field tests conducted under a waiver granted by the FMCSA. | Federal Register Notice (text) Agency: Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration Byline: Robin Hutcheson Topic: American Association of Motor Vehicle Administrators |
| 7 March 2022 | Parts and Accessories Necessary for Safe Operation; Authorized Windshield Area for the Installation of Vehicle Safety Technology FMCSA amends the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Regulations to increase the area on the interior of commercial motor vehicle windshields where certain vehicle safety technology devices may be mounted. | Federal Register Notice (text) Agency: Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration Byline: Robin Hutcheson |
| 9 March 2022 | Commercial Driver's License Out-of-State Knowledge Test; Withdrawal FMCSA is withdrawing a notice of proposed rulemaking to allow driver applicants to take the commercial driver's license general and specialized knowledge tests in a State other than the applicant's State of domicile. | Federal Register Notice (text) Agency: Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration Byline: Robin Hutcheson |
| 9 March 2022 | Record of Violations FMCSA amends its regulations to eliminate the requirement that drivers operating commercial motor vehicles in interstate commerce prepare and submit a list of their convictions for traffic violations to their employers annually. | Federal Register Notice (text) Agency: Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration Byline: Robin Hutcheson |
| 9 March 2022 | Third Party Commercial Driver's License Testers; Withdrawal FMCSA is withdrawing a notice of proposed rulemaking to allow States to permit a third party skills test examiner to administer the Commercial Driver's License skills test to applicants to whom the examiner has also provided skills training, a practice now prohibited under FMCSA regulations. | Federal Register Notice (text) Agency: Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration Byline: Robin Hutcheson |
| 31 March 2022 | Commercial Driver's License Standards: Application for Exemption; Werner Enterprises, Inc. FMCSA announces its decision to grant Werner Enterprises an exemption from the regulation that requires a commercial learner's permit holder operating a commercial motor vehicle to be accompanied by a commercial driver's license holder with the proper CDL class and endorsements, in the passenger seat. | Federal Register Notice (text) Agency: Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration Byline: Robin Hutcheson Topic: Werner Enterprises |
| 26 April 2022 | Implementation of Household Goods Working Group Recommendations FMCSA amends the Transportation of Household Goods regulations to incorporate recommendations from the Household Goods Consumer Protection Working Group contained in FMCSA Publication ESA 03005. | Federal Register Notice (text) Agency: Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration Byline: Robin Hutcheson |
| 26 April 2022 | Parts and Accessories Necessary for Safe Operation; Exemption Renewal for the Flatbed Carrier Safety Group FMCSA renews the Flatbed Carrier Safety Group's exemption which allows the securement of metal coils on a flatbed vehicle, in a sided vehicle, or in an intermodal container loaded with eyes crosswise, grouped in rows, in which the coils are loaded to contact each other in the longitudinal direction. | Federal Register Notice (text) Agency: Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration Byline: Robin Hutcheson |
| 27 April 2022 | Commercial Driver's License: Tornado Bus Company (Tornado); Application for Exemption Tornado requests an exemption from certain provisions of the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Regulations for its drivers who currently hold a Mexican Licencia Federal de Conductor, and are seeking permanent resident status and have over two years' experience driving in the United States and Mexico. | Federal Register Notice (text) Agency: Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration Byline: Robin Hutcheson Topic: Tornado Bus Company |
| 27 April 2022 | Commercial Driver's License Requirements: Dealers' Choice Truckaway System, Inc. dba Truckmovers; Irontiger Logistics, Inc.; TM Canada, Inc.; Victory Driveaway, Inc., Application for Exemption These driveaway carriers jointly sought an exemption from the requirement that drivers transporting empty passenger vehicles with seating capacities of 16 or more but a gross vehicle weight rating and a gross vehicle weight of less than 26,001 pounds possess a commercial drivers' license to do so. | Federal Register Notice (text) Agency: Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration Byline: Robin Hutcheson |
| 27 April 2022 | Commercial Driver's License Standards: Application for Exemption; Daimler Trucks North America FMCSA announces its decision to grant an exemption from the CDL requirements to Daimler Trucks North America for one of its commercial motor vehicle drivers, Ms. Gesa Reimelt, a product engineer in powertrain solutions. | Federal Register Notice (text) Agency: Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration Byline: Robin Hutcheson Topics: Gesa Reimelt, Mercedes-Benz Group |
| 27 April 2022 | Commercial Driver's License Standards: Application for Exemption; Daimler Trucks North America This exemption will permit the Daimler drivers to test-drive Daimler vehicles on U.S. roads to better understand product requirements in “real world” environments, and verify results. | Federal Register Notice (text) Agency: Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration Byline: Robin Hutcheson Topics: Mercedes-Benz Group |
| 4 May 2022 | Parts and Accessories Necessary for Safe Operations; Speed Limiting Devices The SNPRM will propose that motor carriers operating commercial motor vehicles in interstate commerce with a gross vehicle weight rating or gross vehicle weight of 26,001 pounds or more that are equipped with an electronic engine control unit capable of governing the maximum speed be required to limit the CMV to a speed to be determined by the rulemaking and to maintain that ECU setting for the service life of the vehicle. | Federal Register Notice (text) Agency: Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration Byline: Robin Hutcheson |
| 9 May 2022 | Entry-Level Driver Training: Application for Exemption; Ohio Department of Education FMCSA announces its decision to deny the Ohio Department of Education's request for an exemption from the Entry-Level Driver Training requirements. | Federal Register Notice (text) Signing Official: Robin Hutcheson Agency: FMCSA |
| 10 May 2022 | State Inspection Programs for Passenger-Carrier Vehicles The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act directs FMCSA to solicit additional comment on the Agency's April 2016 advance notice of proposed rulemaking concerning the potential establishment of requirements for States to implement annual inspection programs for commercial motor vehicles designed or used to transport passengers. | Federal Register Notice (text) Agency: Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration Byline: Robin Hutcheson |
| 11 May 2022 | Hours of Service of Drivers: Application for an Exemption From Cleveland-Cliffs Steel, LLC FMCSA announces its decision to grant Cleveland-Cliffs Steel, formerly ArcelorMittal Indiana Harbor, exemption from the hours of service that allows its employee-drivers who transport scrap metal on two trucks between their production and shipping locations on public roads to work up to 16 hours per day and to return to work with less than the mandatory 10 consecutive hours off duty. | Federal Register Notice (text) Agency: Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration Byline: Robin Hutcheson |
| 11 May 2022 | National Hazardous Materials Route Registry The NHMRR is a listing, as reported by States and Tribal governments, of all designated and restricted roads and preferred highway routes for transportation of highway route controlled quantities of Class 7 radioactive materials and non-radioactive hazardous materials. | Federal Register Notice (text) Agency: Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration Byline: Robin Hutcheson |
| 19 May 2022 | Commercial Driver's License Standards: Recreation Vehicle Industry Association Application for Exemption FMCSA announces its decision to provisionally renew a 2017 exemption from the Federal commercial driver's license requirements for drivers who deliver certain newly manufactured motorhomes and recreational vehicles to dealers or trade shows before retail sale. | Federal Register Notice (text) Agency: Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration Byline: Robin Hutcheson Topic: Recreation Vehicle Industry Association |
| 19 May 2022 | Entry-Level Driver Training: Application for Exemption; Oak Harbor Freight Lines, Inc. FMCSA announces its decision to grant an exemption from the qualification requirements pertaining to entry-level driver training theory instructors for Oak Harbor's safety supervisor, Mr. Jeff McLaughlin. | Federal Register Notice (text) Agency: Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration Byline: Robin Hutcheson Topics: Jeff McLaughlin, Oak Harbor Freight Lines |
| 27 May 2022 | Parts and Accessories Necessary for Safe Operations; Speed Limiting Devices FMCSA received requests for an extension to the comment period from the American Trucking Associations and the Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association. | Federal Register Notice (text) Agency: Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration Byline: Robin Hutcheson |
| 10 June 2022 | Definitions of Broker and Bona Fide Agents FMCSA is requesting responses to a number of questions in order to inform future guidance on the definitions of broker and bona fide agents. FMCSA is required to issue guidance by November 15, 2022, in response to the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act. | Federal Register Notice (text) Signing Official: Robin Hutcheson Agency: FMCSA |
| 14 June 2022 | Fees for the Unified Carrier Registration Plan and Agreement FMCSA reopens the comment period for its January 24, 2022, NPRM concerning the fees to be collected by the Unified Carrier Registration Plan and Agreement for the 2023 year and subsequent registration years. | Federal Register Notice (text) Signing Official: Robin Hutcheson Agency: FMCSA Topic: UCR Plan |
| 14 June 2022 | Parts and Accessories Necessary for Safe Operation; Exemption Renewal for the International Institute of Towing and Recovery FMCSA announces its decision to provisionally renew the International Institute of Towing and Recovery's exemption to allow commercial motor vehicle operators to secure automobiles, light trucks, and vans using a total of four tiedowns--two fixed and two adjustable--instead of two tiedowns, both of which need to be adjustable. | Federal Register Notice (text) Signing Official: Robin Hutcheson Agency: FMCSA Topic: International Institute of Towing and Recovery |
| 15 June 2022 | Commercial Driver's License (CDL) Testing; Application for Exemption: State of Minnesota FMCSA announces its decision to deny the State of Minnesota's request for reconsideration of the Agency's 2017 denial of an application for exemption from the regulations governing the commercial driver's license skills testing procedures and practices. | Federal Register Notice (text) Signing Official: Robin Hutcheson Agency: FMCSA |
| 15 June 2022 | Hours of Service of Drivers: Pipe Line Contractors Association; Application for Exemption The PLCA sought an exemption from certain hours-of-service regulations for drivers of a variety of commercial motor vehicles employed by its member companies. | Federal Register Notice (text) Signing Official: Robin Hutcheson Agency: FMCSA |
| 16 June 2022 | Commercial Driver's License Standards: Application for Exemption Renewal; C.R. England, Inc. FMCSA announces its decision to provisionally renew a C.R. England exemption from the regulatory provisions that require a commercial learner's permit holder to be accompanied by a CDL holder with the proper class and endorsements seated in the front seat of the vehicle while the CLP holder performs behind-the-wheel training on public roads or highways. | Federal Register Notice (text) Signing Official: Robin Hutcheson Agency: FMCSA Topic: C.R. England |
| 28 June 2022 | Commercial Driver's License (CDL): New Prime, Inc. (Prime); Application for Exemption Renewal The exemption allows a CLP holder who has passed the skills test but not yet received the CDL document to drive a Prime commercial motor vehicle accompanied by a CDL holder who is not necessarily in the passenger seat, provided the driver has documentation of passing the skills test. | Federal Register Notice (text) Agency: Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration Byline: Robin Hutcheson Topic: New Prime |
| 18 July 2022 | Hours of Service of Drivers: Application for Exemption; Harris Companies, Inc. (Harris) FMCSA announces its decision to deny the Harris Companies, Inc. application for exemption from the electronic logging device rule for all its employees who are required to prepare records of duty status. | Federal Register Notice (text) Signing Official: Robin Hutcheson Agency: FMCSA |
| 8 August 2022 | Incorporation by Reference; North American Standard Out-of-Service Criteria; Hazardous Materials Safety Permits FMCSA proposes amendments to its Hazardous Materials Safety Permits regulations to incorporate by reference the updated Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance handbook containing inspection procedures and Out-of-Service Criteria for inspections of shipments of transuranic waste and highway route controlled quantities of radioactive material. | Federal Register Notice (text) Signing Official: Robin Hutcheson Agency: FMCSA |
| 16 August 2022 | Qualifications of Drivers: Medical Examiner's Handbook and Medical Advisory Criteria Proposed Regulatory Guidance FMCSA announces the availability of the draft Medical Examiner's Handbook, which includes updates to the Medical Advisory Criteria published in the Code of Federal Regulations, and requests comments on the proposed regulatory guidance. | Federal Register Notice (text) Signing Official: Robin Hutcheson Agency: FMCSA |
| 1 September 2022 | Fees for the Unified Carrier Registration Plan and Agreement FMCSA amends the regulations for the annual registration fees States collect from motor carriers, motor private carriers of property, brokers, freight forwarders, and leasing companies for the Unified Carrier Registration Plan and Agreement for the 2023 registration year and subsequent registration years. | Federal Register Notice (text) Agency: Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration Byline: Robin Hutcheson Topic: Unified Carrier Registration Plan |
| 6 September 2022 | Entry-Level Driver Training: United Parcel Service, Inc. (UPS); Petition for Reconsideration of Original Application for Exemption UPS originally sought exemption from a provision in the Entry-Level Driver Training final rule requiring two years of experience for training instructors. | Federal Register Notice (text) Agency: Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration Byline: Robin Hutcheson Topic: UPS |
| 7 September 2022 | Assessment of the Continued Need for COVID-19 Emergency Declaration, Regulatory Relief for Commercial Motor Vehicle Operations The extension of the emergency declaration expires on October 15, 2022. | Federal Register Notice (text) Agency: Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration Byline: Robin Hutcheson Special Collection: COVID-19 |
| 12 September 2022 | Hours of Service of Drivers: Truck Renting and Leasing Association, Inc. (TRALA); Application for Exemption Renewal The exemption allows drivers of property carrying commercial motor vehicles rented for 8 days or less, regardless of reason, to not use an ELD in the vehicle. | Federal Register Notice (text) Agency: Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration Byline: Robin Hutcheson Topic: Truck Renting and Leasing Association |
| 16 September 2022 | Electronic Logging Device Revisions The Agency seeks comment in five specific areas in which the Agency is considering changes: applicability to pre-2000 engines; addressing ELD malfunctions; the process for removing ELD products from FMCSA's list of certified devices; technical specifications; and ELD certification. | Federal Register Notice (text) Agency: Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration Byline: Robin Hutcheson |
| 23 September 2022 | Commercial Driver's License Standards: Application for Exemption; Navistar, Inc. (Navistar) FMCSA announces its decision to grant an exemption from the commercial driver's license requirements to Navistar for a commercial motor vehicle driver, Mr. Anders Björkman, employed as an engineer by Navistar's business partner Scania AB. | Federal Register Notice (text) Agency: Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration Byline: Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration Topics: Anders Björkman, Scania |
| 23 September 2022 | Unique Electronic Identification of Commercial Motor Vehicles FMCSA requests public comment on whether the agency should amend the FMCSRs to require every commercial motor vehicle operating in interstate commerce to be equipped with electronic identification technology capable of wirelessly communicating a unique ID number when queried by a Federal or State motor carrier safety enforcement personnel. | Federal Register Notice (text) Agency: Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration Byline: Robin Hutcheson Topic: Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance |
| 28 September 2022 | Commercial Driver's License: United Parcel Service, Inc. (UPS); Application for Exemptions The exemption allows UPS to conduct behind-the-wheel training for commercial learner's permit holders in twin 28-foot trailers, rather than waiting to conduct the training after the individuals receive their Class A CDLs and pass the required knowledge test to obtain the double/triple trailer endorsement on their CDLs. | Federal Register Notice (text) Agency: Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration Byline: Robin Hutcheson Topic: UPS |
| 29 September 2022 | General Technical, Organizational, Conforming, and Correcting Amendments to the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Regulations The Agency makes minor changes to correct inadvertent errors and omissions, remove or update obsolete references, and improve the clarity and consistency of certain regulatory provisions. | Federal Register Notice (text) Agency: Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration Byline: Robin Hutcheson |
| 3 November 2022 | General Qualifications of Drivers: Small Business in Transportation Coalition; Application for Exemption FMCSA announces its decision to deny the Small Business in Transportation Coalition's request for an exemption from the requirement that motor carriers not permit a person to drive a commercial motor vehicle unless the driver is capable of reading and speaking the English language sufficiently to communicate with the public, to understand highway traffic signs and signals in the English language, to respond to official inquiries, and to make entries on reports and records drivers. | Federal Register Notice (text) Agency: Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration Byline: Robin Hutcheson Topic: Small Business in Transportation Coalition |
| 3 November 2022 | Hours of Service of Drivers: Application for Exemption; Motion Picture Association FMCSA announces its decision to provisionally renew an exemption from the electronic logging device requirements for all commercial motor vehicle drivers providing transportation to or from a theatrical or television motion picture production site. | Federal Register Notice (text) Agency: Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration Byline: Robin Hutcheson |
| 9 November 2022 | Hours of Service of Drivers: Application for Exemption; Leland Schmitt, Jr. The applicant states that the mandatory 10 hour off-duty break goes against his natural sleep patterns, as his normal nighttime sleep while in the CMV is between 5 and 7 hours. | Federal Register Notice (text) Agency: Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration Byline: Robin Hutcheson Topic: Leland Schmitt Jr. |
| 15 November 2022 | Applicability of the Registration, Financial Responsibility, and Safety Regulations to Motor Carriers of Passengers This interpretive rule adds appendices to the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Regulations to explain existing statutes and regulations FMCSA administers. | Federal Register Notice (text) Agency: Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration Byline: Robin Hutcheson |
| 15 November 2022 | State Inspection Programs for Passenger-Carrier Vehicles FMCSA confirms its May 2017 decision to withdraw its April 2016 advance notice of proposed rulemaking concerning the establishment of requirements for States to implement annual inspection programs for commercial motor vehicles designed or used to transport passengers. | Federal Register Notice (text) Agency: Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration Byline: Robin Hutcheson |
| 16 November 2022 | Definitions of Broker and Bona Fide Agents FMCSA is taking this action to better define the terms in response to a mandate in the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act. | Federal Register Notice (text) Agency: Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration Byline: Robin Hutcheson |
| 29 November 2022 | Hours of Service of Drivers: National Cattlemen's Beef Association; Livestock Marketing Association; American Farm Bureau Federation; American Beekeeping Federation; American Honey Producers Association; and National Aquaculture Association; Application for Exemption The applicants requested approval for drivers, after 10 consecutive hours off duty, to drive through the 16th consecutive hour after coming on duty, and to drive a total of 15 hours during that 16-hour period. | Federal Register Notice (text) Agency: Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration Byline: Robin Hutcheson |
| 29 November 2022 | Parts and Accessories Necessary for Safe Operation; Rosco Vision, Inc.; Application for an Exemption The FMCSA announces its decision to grant a limited 5-year exemption to Rosco Vision to allow motor carriers to operate commercial motor vehicles with the company's CV Digital Camera Monitor System installed as an alternative to the two rear-vision mirrors required by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Regulations. | Federal Register Notice (text) Agency: Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration Byline: Robin Hutcheson Topic: Rosco |
| 8 December 2022 | Clarification to the Applicability of Emergency Exemptions FMCSA is proposing to narrow the scope of regulations from which relief is provided automatically for motor carriers providing direct assistance when an emergency has been declared. | Federal Register Notice (text) Agency: Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration Byline: Robin Hutcheson |
| 22 December 2022 | Entry-Level Driver Training: SBL Truck Driving Academy, Inc.; Application for Exemption SBL sought an exemption from the theory and behind-the-wheel instructor requirements contained in the entry-level driver training regulations for two of its instructors. | Federal Register Notice (text) Agency: Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration Byline: Robin Hutcheson Topic: SBL Truck Driving Academy |
| 22 December 2022 | Entry-Level Driver Training: Western Area Career and Technology Center; Application for Exemption WACTC requested an exemption from the theory and behind-the-wheel instructor requirements contained in the entry-level driver training regulations for one prospective instructor. | Federal Register Notice (text) Agency: Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration Byline: Robin Hutcheson |
| 22 December 2022 | Incorporation by Reference; North American Standard Out-of-Service Criteria; Hazardous Materials Safety Permits FMCSA amends its Hazardous Materials Safety Permits regulations to incorporate by reference the April 1, 2022, edition of the CVSA's handbook containing inspection procedures and Out-of-Service Criteria for the inspection of commercial motor vehicles used in the transportation of transuranic waste and highway route-controlled quantities of radioactive material. | Federal Register Notice (text) Agency: Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration Byline: Robin Hutcheson Topic: Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance |
| 23 December 2022 | Controlled Substances and Alcohol Use and Testing: Application for Exemption; The Trucking Alliance The applicant believes that hair testing enhances public safety by providing a longer detection window for controlled substance use and by minimizing the opportunity for fraud in the specimen collection process. | Federal Register Notice (text) Agency: Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration Byline: Robin Hutcheson Topic: The Trucking Alliance |
| 28 December 2022 | Commercial Driver's License Standards: Stevens Transport, Inc.; Application for Exemption Stevens sought an exemption from the requirement that a commercial learner's permit holder be accompanied by a commercial driver's license holder with the proper CDL class and endorsements seated in the front seat of the vehicle while the CLP holder performs behind-the-wheel training on public roads or highways. | Federal Register Notice (text) Agency: Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration Byline: Robin Hutcheson Topic: Stevens Transport |
| 28 December 2022 | Entry-Level Driver Training: State of Alaska; Application for Exemption FMCSA announces its decision to grant a two-year exemption to the State of Alaska from the limitations imposed by the commercial driver's license regulations on the State's ability to issue restricted CDLs. | Federal Register Notice (text) Agency: Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration Byline: Robin Hutcheson |
| 28 December 2022 | Hours of Service (HOS) of Drivers; Application for Renewal of American Pyrotechnics Association Exemptions From the 14-Hour Rule and the Electronic Logging Device Rule During Independence Day Celebrations FMCSA announces its decision to grant exemptions for 32 member companies of the American Pyrotechnics Association from certain hours of service regulations during designated Independence Day periods. | Federal Register Notice (text) Agency: Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration Byline: Robin Hutcheson |
| 5 January 2023 | Broker and Freight Forwarder Financial Responsibility The agency proposes regulations in five separate areas: Assets readily available; immediate suspension of broker/freight forwarder operating authority; surety or trust responsibilities in cases of broker/freight forwarder financial failure or insolvency; enforcement authority; and entities eligible to provide trust funds for form BMC-85 trust fund filings. | Federal Register Notice (text) Agency: Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration Byline: Robin Hutcheson |
| 11 January 2023 | National Registry of Certified Medical Examiners: 10-Year Refresher Training and Recertification Testing Requirements The required 10-year refresher training will be delivered by private sector training organizations in the same manner as the initial National Registry medical examiner training. | Federal Register Notice (text) Agency: Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration Byline: Robin Hutcheson |
| 12 January 2023 | Entry-Level Driver Training: National Ground Water Association; Application for Exemption NGWA sought an exemption from the entry-level driver training regulations “for individuals operating class B ground water well drilling rigs.” | Federal Register Notice (text) Agency: Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration Byline: Robin Hutcheson |
| 12 January 2023 | Entry Level Driver Training: Railsback HazMat Safety Professionals, LLC; Application for Exemption The exemption will allow Mr. Railsback to conduct theory (i.e., classroom) training for driver trainees seeking to obtain a hazardous materials endorsement on their commercial driver's license. | Federal Register Notice (text) Agency: Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration Byline: Robin Hutcheson |
| 19 January 2023 | Hours of Service of Drivers: Application for Exemption; Ronnie Brown III The applicant states that the HOS regulations create “safety concerns” because they do not always coincide with his natural sleep patterns and are a “one size fits all set of rules.” He further adds that he “can safely drive . . . no matter the amount of sleep [he] get[s] or the length of drive time.” | Federal Register Notice (text) Agency: Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration Byline: Robin Hutcheson Topic: Ronnie Brown III |
| 1 February 2023 | Safe Integration of Automated Driving Systems (ADS)-Equipped Commercial Motor Vehicles (CMVs) FMCSA previously published an advance notice of proposed rulemaking (ANPRM) on May 28, 2019, seeking comments on FMCSRs that may need to be amended, revised, or eliminated to facilitate the safe introduction of ADS-equipped CMVs onto the Nation's roadways. | Federal Register Notice (text) Agency: Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration Byline: Robin Hutcheson |
| 15 February 2023 | Revised Carrier Safety Measurement System The National Research Council of the National Academy of Sciences recommended on June 27, 2017, that FMCSA develop and test a new statistical model. | Federal Register Notice (text) Agency: Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration Byline: Robin Hutcheson |
| 22 February 2023 | Hours of Service: Exemption Application From Flat Top Transport, LLC Flat Top Transport requested a four-month exemption for “immediate and emergency delivery of dry and bulk food grade products to locations that supply stores and distribution centers nationally.” | Federal Register Notice (text) Agency: Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration Byline: Robin Hutcheson Topic: Flat Top Transport |
| 23 February 2023 | Hours of Service of Drivers: Application for Exemption; Wayne Moore, Jr. Mr. Moore states that he would like the ability to split off-duty time into periods that are more conducive to proper rest and sleep without having to comply with the HOS regulations. He also states that he has the ability to decide whether he is sufficiently rested to drive. | Federal Register Notice (text) Agency: Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration Byline: Robin Hutcheson Topic: Wayne Moore Jr. |
| 8 March 2023 | Broker and Freight Forwarder Financial Responsibility FMCSA is extending the comment period for its January 5, 2023, NPRM proposing rules to regulate broker and freight forwarder financial responsibility in five separate areas. | Federal Register Notice (text) Agency: Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration Byline: Robin Hutchinson |
| 8 March 2023 | Definitions of Broker and Bona Fide Agents FMCSA is reopening the comment period for its interim guidance, Definitions of Broker and Bona Fide Agents. | Federal Register Notice (text) Agency: Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration Byline: Robin Hutchinson |
| 8 March 2023 | Property Broker Listening Session; Public Meeting Specifically, the Agency would like to hear from members of the public on two matters relating to the regulation of property brokers: a notice of proposed rulemaking proposing to regulate five separate areas of broker and freight forwarder financial responsibility and the interim guidance regarding FMCSA's interpretation of the definitions of broker and bona fide agents as it relates to all brokers of transportation by motor vehicle. | Federal Register Notice (text) Agency: Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration Byline: Robin Hutchinson |
| 16 March 2023 | Fees for the Unified Carrier Registration Plan and Agreement The fees for the 2024 registration year would be reduced below the fees for 2023 by approximately 9 percent overall, with varying reductions between $4 and $3,453 per entity, depending on the applicable fee bracket. | Federal Register Notice (text) Agency: Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration Byline: Robin Hutcheson Topic: Unified Carrier Registration Plan |
| 13 April 2023 | Crash Preventability Determination Program This program reviews 16 specific crash types and modifies information in the Safety Measurement System to distinguish not preventable crashes. | Federal Register Notice (text) Agency: Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration Byline: Robin Hutcheson |
| 19 April 2023 | Hours of Service of Drivers: National Propane Gas Association; Application for Exemption NPGA sought an exemption from various hours-of-service requirements to enable the propane industry to prepare and respond to peak periods of consumer demand among residential, agricultural, and commercial consumers in anticipation of, during, and to recover from emergency conditions. | Federal Register Notice (text) Agency: Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration Byline: Robin Hutcheson |
| 19 April 2023 | Parts and Accessories Necessary for Safe Operation; Exemption Renewal for TowMate LLC FMCSA announces its decision provisionally to renew the TowMate exemption which allows motor carriers to operate rechargeable wireless temporary stop, turn, and tail lighting systems during temporary towing operations that do not meet the vehicle power supply requirements for all required lamps in the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Regulations. | Federal Register Notice (text) Agency: Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration Byline: Robin Hutcheson Topic: TowMate |
| 12 May 2023 | Commercial Driver's License: Daimler; Application for Exemption; Daimler Truck North America LLC (Daimler) FMCSA announces its decision to grant an exemption from the commercial driver's license requirements to Daimler Truck North America LLC for one commercial motor vehicle driver, Dr. Andreas Gorbach, Executive Vice President and Board of Management Member for Daimler. | Federal Register Notice (text) Agency: Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration Byline: Robin Hutcheson Topics: Dr. Andreas Gorbach, Mercedes-Benz Group |
| 16 June 2023 | Definitions of Broker and Bona Fide Agents Today's notice makes updates to November 2022 guidance in response to the public comments the Agency received. | Federal Register Notice (text) Agency: Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration Byline: Robin Hutcheson |
| 20 June 2023 | Regulatory Guidance: Clarification of Reissuance Dates This notice also clarifies the reissuance dates for guidance posted between March 4 and June 27, 2020, during the “grace period.” | Federal Register Notice (text) Agency: Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration Byline: Robin Hutcheson |
| 21 June 2023 | Exemption From Operating Authority Regulations for Providers of Recreational Activities The exemption would apply to motor carriers operating a motor vehicle designed or used to transport between 9 and 15 passengers (including the driver). | Federal Register Notice (text) Agency: Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration Byline: Robin Hutcheson |
| 22 June 2023 | Fees for the Unified Carrier Registration Plan and Agreement FMCSA amends the regulations for the annual registration fees States collect from motor carriers, motor private carriers of property, brokers, freight forwarders, and leasing companies for the Unified Carrier Registration Plan and Agreement for the 2024 registration year and subsequent registration years. | Federal Register Notice (text) Agency: Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration Byline: Robin Hutcheson Topic: Unified Carrier Registration Plan |
| 22 June 2023 | Parts and Accessories Necessary for Safe Operation; Exemption for Daimler Coaches North America, LLC The FMCSA announces its decision to grant Daimler Coaches North America's application for a limited five-year exemption to allow its driver assistance camera technology device to extend beyond the current mounting location limits in the lower area of the windshield on Tourrider commercial motorcoaches. | Federal Register Notice (text) Agency: Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration Byline: Robin Hutcheson Topic: Mercedes-Benz Tourrider |
| 22 June 2023 | Parts and Accessories Necessary for Safe Operation; Pi Variables, Inc Application for an Exemption FMCSA announces its decision to grant a limited 5-year exemption to Pi Variables, Inc. to allow Pi-Lit Smart Sequential Road Flares (LED flares) to be deployed when commercial motor vehicles are stopped upon the traveled portion of a highway or the shoulder of a highway for any cause other than necessary traffic stops. | Federal Register Notice (text) Agency: Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration Byline: Robin Hutcheson Topic: Pi-Lit |
| 6 July 2023 | Heavy Vehicle Automatic Emergency Braking; AEB Test Devices This NPRM proposes to adopt a new Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard to require automatic emergency braking systems on heavy vehicles, i.e., vehicles with a gross vehicle weight rating greater than 4,536 kilograms (10,000 pounds). | Federal Register Notice ( PDF)Agencies: FMCSA & NHTSA Byline: Robin Hutcheson & Raymond R. Posten |
| 6 July 2023 | Qualification of Drivers: Skill Performance Evaluation Program; Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles Application for Exemption Renewal The exemption enables interstate CMV drivers who are licensed in Virginia and are subject to the Federal SPE certificate requirements to continue to fulfill the Federal requirements with a State-issued SPE certificate that qualifies such drivers to operate CMVs in interstate commerce. | Federal Register Notice (text) Agency: Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration Byline: Robin Hutcheson |
| 19 July 2023 | Entry-Level Driver Training: Robert Towle; Application for Exemption FMCSA announces its decision to deny the exemption application from Robert Towle, who sought an exemption on behalf of graduating students of the commercial driver's license Prep Class of the New Hampshire Department of Corrections Special School District Granite State High School from two requirements in the entry-level driver training regulations. | Federal Register Notice (text) Agency: Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration Byline: Robin Hutcheson |
| 24 July 2023 | Incorporation by Reference; North American Standard Out-of-Service Criteria; Hazardous Materials Safety Permits FMCSA proposes amendments to its Hazardous Materials Safety Permits regulations to incorporate by reference the updated Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance handbook containing inspection procedures and Out-of-Service Criteria for inspections of shipments of transuranic waste and highway route-controlled quantities of radioactive material. | Federal Register Notice (text) Agency: Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration Byline: Robin Hutcheson Topic: Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance |
| 7 August 2023 | Commercial Driver's License Standards: Application for Exemption Renewal; CRST The Transportation Solution (Formerly Known as CRST Expedited, Inc.) FMCSA announces its decision to provisionally renew the exemption currently held by CRST The Transportation Solution from the requirement that a commercial driver's license holder with the proper CDL class and endorsements be seated in the front seat of the commercial motor vehicle at all times while the commercial learner's permit holder is engaged in behind-the-wheel training on public roads or highways. | Federal Register Notice (text) Agency: Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration Byline: Robin Hutcheson Topic: CRST The Transportation Solution |
| 14 August 2023 | California and Washington Meal and Rest Break Rules; Notice of Waiver Provision FMCSA provides notice that the Agency will consider petitions for waiver of its decisions preempting the State of California's Meal and Rest Break rules for certain drivers of property- and passenger-carrying commercial motor vehicles and its decision preempting the State of Washington's MRB rules for certain drivers of property-carrying CMVs. | Federal Register Notice (text) Agency: Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration Byline: Robin Hutcheson |