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TITLE Category: Person Description: Acting Deputy Administrator of the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration. Page Sections: Article Index |
| Date | Article | Details |
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| 2 February 2024 | Parts and Accessories Necessary for Safe Operation; Exemption Renewal for Stoneridge, Inc. FMCSA announces its decision to provisionally renew Stoneridge's exemption, which will allow motor carriers to operate commercial motor vehicles with the company's MirrorEye 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: Sue Lawless Topic: Stoneridge |
| 8 February 2024 | Request for Information Concerning the Study of Sexual Assault and Sexual Harassment in the Commercial Motor Vehicle Industry FMCSA seeks information on how best to design and conduct a study to identify, categorize, and assess context and trends of SASH in the CMV industry. | Federal Register Notice (text) Agency: Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration Byline: Sue Lawless |
| 15 February 2024 | Hours of Service of Drivers: Application for Exemption; Motion Picture Association FMCSA announces its final decision to grant the exemption from the electronic logging device requirements requested by the Motion Picture Association 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: Sue Lawless |
| 16 February 2024 | Request for Information: Drivers' Leasing Agreements for Commercial Motor Vehicles (CMVs) FMCSA requests information from the public, including commercial motor vehicle drivers, to assist the Agency's Truck Leasing Task Force in reviewing such leases to identify terms and conditions that may be unfair to drivers. | Federal Register Notice (text) Agency: Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration Byline: Sue Lawless |
| 20 February 2024 | Commercial Driver's License (CDL) Standards; Incorporation by Reference of a New State Procedures Manual (SPM) FMCSA proposes to amend the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Regulations to incorporate by reference the most recent edition of the American Association of Motor Vehicle Administrators, Commercial Driver's License Information System State Procedures Manual. | Federal Register Notice (text) Agency: Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration Byline: Sue Lawless |
| 20 February 2024 | Commercial Driver's License: State of Hawaii; Application for Exemption FMCSA announces its decision to grant an exemption to the State of Hawaii allowing the State to waive specific portions of the commercial driver's license skills test for CDL applicants who take the skills test on the islands of Lanai and Molokai and issue these drivers a restricted CDL. | Federal Register Notice (text) Agency: Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration Byline: Sue Lawless |
| 21 February 2024 | Parts and Accessories Necessary for Safe Operation; Exemption Renewal for Automobile Carriers Conference and Auto Haulers Association of America FMCSA announces its decision to provisionally renew an exemption requested jointly by the Automobile Carriers Conference of the American Trucking Associations and the Auto Haulers Association of America to relieve motor carriers operating stinger-steered automobile transporter equipment from the requirement to place warning flags on projecting loads of new and used motor vehicles. | Federal Register Notice (text) Agency: Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration Byline: Sue Lawless |
| 26 February 2024 | Exemption From Operating Authority Regulations for Providers of Recreational Activities The exemption applies to motor carriers operating a motor vehicle designed or used to transport between 9 and 15 passengers (including the driver), whether operated alone or with a trailer attached to the transport vehicle, if the motor vehicle is operated by a person that provides recreational activities within a 150 air-mile radius of the location at which passengers initially boarded the motor vehicle at the beginning of the trip. | Federal Register Notice (text) Agency: Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration Byline: Sue Lawless |
| 18 April 2024 | Commercial Driver's License: Application for Exemption; Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles The FLHSMV applied for an exemption to allow the tester, at their discretion, to continue testing an applicant who fails the pre-trip inspection or basic vehicle controls segments of the CDL skills test and allow the applicant to come back at a later date to retake the failed segment(s) only. | Federal Register Notice (text) Agency: Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration Byline: Sue Lawless |
| 1 May 2024 | FMCSA Registration System Modernization FMCSA is developing a new online registration system to improve the transparency and efficiency of FMCSA's registration procedures and implement statutory requirements related to the registration program. | Federal Register Notice (text) Agency: Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration Byline: Sue Lawless |
| 9 May 2024 | Commercial Driver's License Standards: Application for Exemption; Pitt Ohio Express, LLC FMCSA announces its denial of the application from Pitt Ohio Express to exempt its drivers from one of the requirements in the Agency's Safe Driver Apprenticeship Pilot program. | Federal Register Notice (text) Agency: Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration Byline: Sue Lawless Topic: Pitt Ohio Express |
| 10 May 2024 | Parts and Accessories Necessary for Safe Operation; Application for an Exemption From Gemini Motor Transport LP, USDOT# 913300 The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration announces its decision to grant Gemini Motor Transport LP's application for an exemption to allow it to operate commercial motor vehicles equipped with a module manufactured by Intellistop. | Federal Register Notice (text) Agency: Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration Byline: Sue Lawless Topics: Gemini Motor Transport, Intellistop |
| 14 May 2024 | Commercial Driver's License Standards: Application for Exemption Renewal; CRST The Transportation Solution (Formerly Known as CRST Expedited, Inc.) FMCSA announces its decision to 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: Sue Lawless |
| 14 May 2024 | Safe Driver Apprenticeship Pilot Program To Allow Persons Ages 18, 19, and 20 To Operate Commercial Motor Vehicles in Interstate Commerce; Revision to Program Requirements The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act required FMCSA to establish a pilot program that would allow employers to establish an apprenticeship program for certain 18-, 19-, and 20-year-old drivers to operate commercial vehicles in interstate commerce. | Federal Register Notice (text) Agency: Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration Byline: Sue Lawless |
| 31 May 2024 | Transparency in Fees Commercial Motor Vehicle Operators are Charged for Towing and Recovery Services FMCSA announces a public meeting to engage stakeholders, which includes motor carriers, towing and recovery services for commercial motor vehicle operations, and other interested parties, to get their perspective on current industry practices regarding the disclosure of towing fees to the CMV owners and whether the owner is made aware of costs and fees prior to the tow. | Federal Register Notice (text) Agency: Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration Byline: Sue Lawless |
| 7 June 2024 | Safety Fitness Determinations; Public Listening Session FMCSA announces that it will host a listening session pertaining to development of an updated methodology to determine when a motor carrier is not fit to operate commercial motor vehicles in or affecting interstate commerce. | Federal Register Notice (text) Agency: Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration Byline: Sue Lawless |
| 13 June 2024 | Commercial Driver's License (CDL) Standards; Incorporation by Reference of a New State Procedures Manual (SPM) FMCSA amends the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Regulations to incorporate by reference the most recent edition of the American Association of Motor Vehicle Administrators' Commercial Driver's License Information System State Procedures Manual, version c.0. | Federal Register Notice (text) Agency: Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration Byline: Sue Lawless Topic: American Association of Motor Vehicle Administrators |
| 17 June 2024 | Fees for the Unified Carrier Registration Plan and Agreement Following a reduction in fees of an average of 37.3 percent over the two prior years, the fees for the 2025 registration year will be increased above the fees for the 2024 registration year by an average of 25 percent overall, with varying increases between $9 and $9,000 per entity, depending on the applicable fee bracket. | Federal Register Notice (text) Agency: Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration Byline: Sue Lawless Topic: Unified Carrier Registration Plan |
| 18 June 2024 | Commercial Driver's License (CDL): Application for Exemption Renewal; U.S. Custom Harvesters, Inc. FMCSA announces its final decision to renew the U.S. Custom Harvesters exemption from the intrastate restriction on commercial driver's licenses for custom harvester drivers operating in interstate commerce for a two-year period, with additional terms and conditions. | Federal Register Notice (text) Agency: Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration Byline: Sue Lawless |
| 18 June 2024 | Parts and Accessories Necessary for Safe Operation; Exemption Renewal for Agricultural and Food Transporters Conference of American Trucking Associations FMCSA announces its decision to provisionally renew an exemption requested by the Agricultural and Food Transporters Conference of American Trucking Associations, which will allow certain alternative methods for the securement of agricultural commodities transported in wood and plastic boxes and bins and large fiberglass tubs, as well as hay, straw, and cotton bales that are grouped together into large singular units. | Federal Register Notice (text) Agency: Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration Byline: Sue Lawless Topic: American Trucking Associations |
| 20 June 2024 | Safety Fitness Determinations; Virtual Public Listening Sessions FMCSA announces that it will host two virtual public listening sessions pertaining to development of an updated methodology to determine when a motor carrier is not fit to operate commercial motor vehicles in or affecting interstate commerce. | Federal Register Notice (text) Agency: Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration Byline: Sue Lawless |
| 16 July 2024 | 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: Sue Lawless |
| 19 July 2024 | Hours of Service of Drivers: Reiman Corp.; Denial of Application for Exemption Reiman's drivers transport latex embedded cement for use at highway construction sites. Reiman requests that it be allowed to operate under the same HOS exemption provided for “specially trained drivers of commercial motor vehicles that are specially constructed to service oil wells.” | Federal Register Notice (text) Agency: Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration Byline: Sue Lawless |
| 24 July 2024 | Parts and Accessories Necessary for Safe Operation; Convoy Technologies, Inc Application for an Exemption FMCSA announces its decision to grant a limited 5-year exemption to Convoy Technologies to allow motor carriers to operate commercial motor vehicles with the company's Electronic Rear View System 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: Sue Lawless Topic: Convoy Technologies |
| 25 July 2024 | Parts and Accessories Necessary for Safe Operation; Safe Fleet Bus and Rail Application for an Exemption FMCSA announces its decision to grant a limited 5-year exemption to Safe Fleet Bus and Rail to allow motor carriers to operate commercial motor vehicles with the company's “MirrorLESS” 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: Sue Lawless Topic: Safe Fleet |
| 30 July 2024 | Commercial Driver's License: Covenant Transport Inc. and Landair Transport Inc. Jointly d/b/a Covenant Logistics; Application for Exemption FMCSA announces its decision to grant Covenant Logistics an exemption from the requirement for a commercial learner's permit holder, while operating a commercial motor vehicle, to be accompanied by a commercial driver's license holder with the proper CDL class and endorsements seated in the front seat of the CMV. | Federal Register Notice (text) Agency: Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration Byline: Sue Lawless Topic: Covenant Logistics |
| 13 August 2024 | Notice of Review of Guidance FMCSA's primary mission is to reduce crashes, injuries and fatalities involving large trucks and buses. In carrying out this safety mandate, FMCSA develops and enforces data-driven regulations and produces guidance documents to clarify regulatory requirements and aid compliance. | Federal Register Notice (text) Agency: Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration Byline: Sue Lawless |