ELDs have changed hours of service compliance for drivers and fleets, AND they’ve changed the way the government audits driver and carrier records. This new training webinar covers the ins and outs of FMCSA’s compliance review/audit process and focuses on how FMCSA...

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Another State, Utah, recently joined the chorus of State Licensing Agencies offering carriers an electronic notification system to help carriers keep tabs on their drivers. Once per month, enrolled motor carriers will be notified by Utah when one of their drivers has...

FMCSA recently revised the total number of CDL holders to 3.47 million. These are drivers working for carriers with an active DOT# (in 2018). This is a downward revision from 3.85 million in 2017, and is based on a data cleanup project undertaken by the Agency during...

STC President Dave Osiecki in Heavy Duty Trucking (HDT) regarding FMCSA’s decision to double the minimum annual percentage rate for random controlled substance testing for commercial motor vehicle drivers, from 25% to 50% percent, effective Jan. 1, in response to...

STC President Dave Osiecki in FleetOwner on The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) is doubling the minimum annual percentage rate for random tests of truck drivers for controlled substances. Read the article in...

On January 6, 2020, FMCSA’s Drug & Alcohol Clearinghouse arrived, sort of. While technical challenges defined its first couple weeks in existence, there’s a fair amount of user error or misunderstanding that has compounded frustrations. One such misunderstanding...

In the latest installment of the Beyond Compliance saga that began in 2010 with the implementation of the CSA program, FMCSA recently asked stakeholders to review and comment on its plan to survey motor carriers with exemplary safety performance records about what...

Despite the best of intentions, CSA has not moved the crash reduction needle. As shown in this table, large truck-involved fatal, injury and PDO crash rates rose substantially between the launch of CSA and 2017, which is the latest year for which finalized crash data...

When FMCSA’s Compliance, Safety, Accountability (CSA) program initially launched in 2010, it was called CSA-2010. At that time, FMCSA’s four CSA objectives were to: Increase contact with industry through increased efficiencies Maximize FMCSA and State partner...