The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Regulations (“FMCSRs”) are issued by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (“FMCSA”), both only after they are made publicly available as rulemaking documents, and comment is sought with respect to the same. To find the proposed new FMCSRs, one should go to the FMCSA’s website and access http://www.fmcsa.dot.gov/regulations/rulemaking. During the past year, the FMCSA has proposed new rules concerning
Date Part Subject
(1st)
05/04/2015 391 Qualifications of Drivers; Diabetes Standard
04/23/2015 383 Medical Examiner’s Certificate Integration
04/03/2015 383 Civil Penalties Inflation Adjustment
03/27/2015 350 State Inspection Programs for Passenger-Carrying Vehicles; Listening Session
03/26/2015 390 Federal Motor Carrier Safety Regulations; Regulatory Guidance Concerning Crashes Involving Vehicles Striking Attenuator Trucks Deployed at Construction Sites
12/22/2014 395 Hours of Service of Drivers
12/22/2014 350 State Inspection Programs for Passenger-Carrying Vehicles; Listening Sessions
12/18/2014 392 Inspection, Repair, and Maintenance; Driver-Vehicle
Inspection Report (DVIR)
12/10/2014 380 Minimum Training Requirements for Entry-Level Driver Commercial Motor Vehicle Operators; Establishment of a Negotiated Rulemaking Committee
11/28/2014 387 Financial Responsibility for Motor Carriers, Freight Forwarders, and Brokers
10/22/2014 390 Amendment to Emergency Relief Exemptions Pursuant to the Reliable Home Heating (RHH) Act
10/02/2014 Misc. General Technical, Organizational, and Conforming Amendments to the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Regulations.
10/01/2014 391 Driver Qualifications; Regulatory Guidance Concerning the Applicability of Language Requirement to Drivers Who Do Not Meet the Hearing Standard
09/22/2014 380 Minimum Training Requirements for Entry-Level Commercial Drivers’ License Applicants; Consideration of Negotiated Rulemaking Process
07/10/2014 395 Hours of Service for Commercial Vehicle Drivers; Regulatory Guidance Concerning Records of Duty Status Generated by Logging Software Programs
06/05/2014 383 Motor Carrier Management Information System (MCMIS) Changes to Improve Uniformity in the Treatment of Inspection Violation Data.
For detail concerning each agency action, click on the subject line, and a new page with the action, summary, authority, published date, effective date, comment by deadline, federal register location, RIN, Docket # and CFR Part # will all appear. For example, by clicking on the December 22, 2014 action concerning “Hours of Service of Drivers,” one will see a full page with the action listed as “Notice of suspension of enforcement,” the published date of 12/22/2014, the effective date of 12/16/2014; the Federal Register location of 2014-30028, CFR Part 395, Authority: 79 FR 76241, and a summary that says the following:
FMCSA suspends enforcement of certain sections of the Agency’s Hours of Service (HOS) rules as required by the Consolidated and Further Continuing Appropriations Act, 2015, enacted December 16, 2014. Specifically, FMCSA suspends the requirements regarding the restart of a driver’s 60- or 70-hour limit that drivers were required to comply with beginning July 1, 2013. The restart provisions have no force or effect from the date of enactment of the Appropriations Act through the period of suspension, and such provisions are replaced with the previous restart provisions in effect on June 30, 2013. FMCSA provides this notification to motor carriers, commercial drivers, State Motor Carrier Safety Assistance Program grant recipients and other law enforcement personnel of these immediate enforcement changes.
The FMCSA website is an excellent resource to enable one searching for rulemaking activities to locate such activities.
Written by:
Mikal C. Watts
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