Sources: U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, Washington, D.C.; National Ready Mixed Concrete Association, Alexandria, Va.; CP staff The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit has denied a petition to review a final rule expanding a short-haul recordkeeping exemption and modifying a 30-minute break requirement in the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration hours of…
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FMCSA program delineates truck crash CSA, SMS reportability; codifies HOS
The U.S. Department of Transportation’s new Crash Preventability Determination Program (CPDP) enables commercial motor vehicle drivers or owners to submit a Request for Data Review covering eligible events from August 2019 forward. By formally clarifying crash conditions or circumstances, it stands to bring greater accuracy and fairness to Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration Compliance, Safety, Accountability (CSA) and Safety Measurement System (SMS) mechanisms for critiquing driver or carrier safety performance.
Read MoreNRMCA informs FMCSA of automated mixer trucks’ promise, limits
From the National Ready Mixed Concrete Association response to the U.S. Department of Transportation’s invitation for comment on a new policy document, “Ensuring American Leadership in Automated Vehicle Technologies: Automated Vehicles 4.0” … Automated mixer trucks hold immense potential for increasing industry safety, supplementing current driver operations and solving driver shortage issues, while increasing the effectiveness, efficiency and safety of ready mixed concrete operations and placement.
Read MoreFinal FMCSA driver hours rule remains friendly to construction materials hauling
Sources: U.S. Department of Transportation; National Ready Mixed Concrete Association, Alexandria, Va.; CP staff
A final U.S. DOT rule updating Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration hours of service (HOS) terms increases flexibility for the 30-minute break provision by requiring a work pause after eight hours of consecutive driving and allowing it to be satisfied by a driver using on-duty, not driving status, rather than off-duty status. Effective in August, the rule also changes the short-haul exception available to certain commercial drivers by lengthening their maximum on duty period from 12 to 14 hours and extending the distance limit within which they can operate from 100 to 150 air miles.
Read MoreFMCSA program delineates truck crash CSA, SMS reportability
Sources: Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration; National Ready Mixed Concrete Association, Alexandria, Va.; CP staff
The new Crash Preventability Determination Program (CPDP) enables commercial motor vehicle drivers or owners to submit a Request for Data Review covering eligible events from August 2019 forward. By formally clarifying crash conditions or circumstances, it stands to bring greater accuracy and fairness to FMCSA Compliance, Safety, Accountability (CSA) and Safety Measurement System (SMS) mechanisms for critiquing driver or carrier safety performance.
Read MoreFMCSA solicits input on methodology for major truck crash study
The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration is inviting comments on how to format and conduct a study aimed at identifying factors contributing to large truck crashes. In a formal Request for Information (RFI), the agency seeks “how best to balance sample representativeness, comprehensive data sources, ranges of crash types, and cost efficiency.”
Read MoreFMCSA opens CDL Drug and Alcohol Clearinghouse registration
Source: Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration
Commercial driver’s license or commercial learner’s permit holders, employers, medical review officers, and substance abuse professionals can now register and create a secure online user account for the Commercial Driver’s License Drug and Alcohol Clearinghouse. Registration ensures access to the portal, which will be fully implemented on January 6, 2020, and abides a Congressional mandate for the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration.
Read MoreFMCSA matches mixer driver hours exemptions for dump, tanker peers
Years of conferring with agency officials on the unique aspects of concrete production and delivery have netted National Ready Mixed Concrete Association staff and Safety, Operations and Environment Committee members a Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration proposal updating drivers’ Hours of Service rules.
Read MoreFMCSA proposal harmonizes mixer, dump, tanker driver hours terms
Source: National Ready Mixed Concrete Association, Silver Spring, Md.
Years of conferring with agency officials on how Hours of Service (HOS) rules profoundly affect ready mixed concrete supply chains, production and delivery have netted NRMCA staff and Safety, Environmental and Operations Committee members a welcome Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration proposal updating thresholds for drivers.
Read MoreFMCSA moves to ease path from CDL Class B to Class A
Source: Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration
FMCSA indicates in a Federal Register notice its intention to amend entry-level driver training (ELDT) terms from a December 2016 final rule, “Minimum Training Requirements for Entry-Level Commercial Motor Vehicle Operators,” by adopting a new Class A CDL theory instruction upgrade curriculum. “The agency believes this modest change for Class B CDL holders upgrading to a Class A CDL maintains the same level of safety established by the ELDT final rule,” FMCSA notes, adding that the “regulatory burden reduction will result in annual cost savings of $18 million.”
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