FMCSA will reorganize safety categories and remove the controlled substance and alcohol category. Most violations will be worth one point, and scores will only apply to recent violations. FMCSA will ...

More than a year since its proposal to overhaul the Safety Measurement System, FMCSA took some industry opinions to heart. The agency's latest proposed changes would tweak violation groups and scoring ...

FMCSA released a report in 2018 that laid out how the agency planned to proceed in reforming its Compliance, Safety, Accountability program, including a revamp of the SMS. In its report, NAS agreed ...

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration has scheduled an in-person listening session as it continues to gather information about possible changes to the way the agency rates motor carrier ...

In the summer of 2017, an elite academic panel of the National Academy of Sciences sent over a slate of data-based recommendations to the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration that it suggested ...

Speaking at the annual Specialized Transportation Symposium of the Specialized Carriers & Rigging Association, held this year in Orlando, Florida, Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration Associate ...

[Updated 10/23/2023 and 1/12/2024] The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration is asking for comments to help it develop a new way to determine when a motor carrier is not fit to operate ...

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (“FMCSA”) recently published a Notice of Proposed Rule Changes regarding the method in which it evaluates motor carrier safety. The current Safety ...

As reported last week, the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration is in the early stages of a potential revamp of its motor carrier safety rating system and is asking for public input on what ...

[Stay on top of transportation news: Get TTNews in your inbox.] For the past two years, Pavan Pidugu, chief technology officer for the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, has quietly been ...