FMCSA Petitions for Rulemaking (Open Petitions)
FMCSA Petitions for Rulemaking
(49 CFR 389.31)
Any interested person may petition the Administrator to establish, amend, interpret, clarify, or withdraw a rule. Each petition filed must:
- Be submitted in writing by mail to the Administrator, Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, 1200 New Jersey Ave. SE, Washington, DC 20590-0001 or filing the petition as a comment, electronically at www.regulations.gov, using the general petitions for rulemaking docket FMCSA-2021-0054;
- Set forth the text or substance of the rule or amendment proposed, or specify the rule that the petitioner seeks to have interpreted, clarified or withdrawn, as the case may be;
- Explain the interest of the petitioner in the action requested;
- Contain any information, data, research studies, and arguments available to the petitioner to support the action sought.
Petitions received will be logged on the table below and categorized by "open" and "closed" petitions. This display is required by Section 5204 of the Fixing America's Surface Transportation Act (FAST Act).
Open Petitions for Rulemaking
The following is a list of petitions for rulemakings that are pending a decision from the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration or granted and awaiting further action.
Filing Organization: Freight Validate/Collaborative Rating Systems LLC and Truckstop.com
Date Agency Received Petition: 12/01/2025 Petition: Amend 49 CFR 365, 371, and 390 to clarify enforceability and align operational control standards with existing safety, hazardous materials, and anti-coercion mandates.
Filing Organization: Freight Validate/Collaborative Rating Systems LLC and Truckstop.com
Date Agency Received Petition: 12/01/2025
Petition: Petition for rulemaking to Strengthen identity Verification and Ownership Accountability in FMCSA Registration and Operating-Authority Transfers.
Filing Organization: Freight Validate/Collaborative Rating Systems LLC and Truckstop.com
Date Agency Received Petition: 12/01/2025
Petition: Amend 49 CFR Parts 365, 371, and 390 to clarify enforceability and align operational control standards with existing safety, hazardous materials, and anti-coercion mandates.
Filing Organization: Road Dawg Compliance & Accountability Initiative
Date Agency Received Petition: 12/01/2025
Petition: Petition requesting establishment of "Bona Fide Independent Dispatch Agent" under 49 CFR 371 and adoption of the compliance accountability matrix standard.
Filing Organization: Small Business Transportation Coalition
Date Agency Received Petition: 05/30/2025
Petition: Amend 49 CFR 371 to include a new regulation that prohibits brokers from contractually requiring a motor carrier to show evidence of having undergone roadside inspections.
Filing Organization: Alpha Drivers Transportation, LLC
Date Agency Received Petition: 08/05/2025
Petition: Petition to amend or clarify the definition of the term "Broker" in 49 CFR 371.2.
Filing Organization: Dave Hughes
Date Agency Received Petition: 04/29/2025
Petition: Requesting that commercial driver's license drivers all exist under a single drug testing program instead of requiring each business to have their own program.
Filing Organization: DOT Ready
Date Agency Received Petition: 09/8/2025
Petition: Amend 49 CFR 383 and 49 CFR 391 to enhance the commercial driver's license legal status and identity verification processes.
Filing Organization: Jenifer Sanchez Vilchis
Date Agency Received Petition: 10/6/2025
Petition: Amend or reinterpret the September 26, 2025, directive restricting commercial driver license to holders of H-2A, H-2B, or E-2 visas, to include Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals recipients with valid work authorization under federal immigration programs.
Filing Organization: Texas Department of Public Safety
Date Agency Received Petition: 12/17/2024
Petition: Amend 49 CFR 383.23 to prohibit Mexican Licencia de Conductor and Canadian issued commercial driver's licenses (CDLs) from reciprocal recognition when engaged in intrastate commerce outside a driver's jurisdiction of domicile. In addition, the petition requests that Mexican and Canadian drivers can apply and test for a non-domiciled CDL in the United States with proper work authorization and legal standing.
Filing Organization: Hawaii DOT
Date Agency Received Petition: 07/16/2024
Petition: Amend 49 CFR 383.71(b)(9) Table 1 by adopting the appropriate documents from the most recent list DHS adopted for proof of citizenship or legal presence under REAL ID.
Filing Organization: RV Industry Association
Date Agency Received Petition: 05/05/2025
Petition: Amend 49 CFR 383.91(a)(1) and (a)(2) to include an exception for personnel transporting new recreational vehicles prior to retail sale.
Filing Organization: Natasha Cruz-Sánchez
Date Agency Received Petition: 08/29/2025
Petition: Petition to amend 49 CFR 383.93 to include an English Language Proficiency Endorsement.
Filing Organization: Small Business Transportation Coalition
Date Agency Received Petition: 06/02/2025
Petition: Repeal or amend 49 CFR 383.133(b)(3) to include a requirement for the knowledge test to be administered in English with no assistance from an interpreter or use of an interpreting device.
Filing Organization: Small Business Transportation Coalition
Date Agency Received Petition: 09/08/2025
Petition: Petition to require Commercial Driver's License-issuing states to use the Federal ID.me identification system in connection with applications for Commercial Driver's Licenses to verify citizenship or permanent legal residency.
Filing Organization: Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance (CVSA)
Date Agency Received Petition: 12/03/2024
Petition: Amend the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Regulations pertaining to Matters Incorporated by Reference by updating the reference to CVSA’s “Operational Policy 4: Inspector Training and Certification” in 385.4(b)(2) to reflect the newest edition, which was revised on Sept. 12, 2024.
Filing Organization: Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance
Date Agency Received Petition: 10/27/2025
Petition: Amend Title 49 CFR 385.4(b)(1) to reflect the updated "North American Standard Level VI Inspection Procedures and Out-of-Service Criteria for Commercial Highway Vehicles Transporting Transuranics and Highway Route Controlled Quantities of Radioactive Materials as defined in 49 CFR Part 173.403.
Filing Organization: Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance
Date Agency Received Petition: 10/28/2025
Petition: Amend Title 49 CFR 385.4(b)(2) to reflect the updated "Operational Policy 4: Inspector Training and Certification." revised Sept. 25, 2025.
There are no open Part 387 Petitions for Rulemaking to report.
There are no Part 389 Petitions for Rulemaking to report.
Filing Organization: Freight Validate/Collaborative Rating Systems LLC and Truckstop.com
Date Agency Received Petition: 12/01/2025
Petition: Amend 49 CFR Parts 365, 371, and 390 to clarify enforceability and align operational control standards with existing safety, hazardous materials, and anti-coercion mandates.
Filing Organization: Small Business Transportation Coalition
Date Agency Received Petition: 05/30/2025
Petition: Amend 49 CFR 371 to include a new regulation that prohibits brokers from contractually requiring a motor carrier to show evidence of having undergone roadside inspections.
Filing Organization: AWM Associates, LLC.
Date Agency Received Petition: 08/08/2024
Petition: Petition to amend 49 CFR 390.3T and 397.2 regarding the transportation of hazardous materials.
Filing Organization: Douglas Smith
Date Agency Received Petition: 05/22/2025
Petition: Amend the definition of a commercial motor vehicle to increase the gross vehicle weight rating threshold from 10,001 pounds to 11,001 pounds in 49 CFR 390.5 and 390.5T.
Filing Organization: Small Business Transportation Coalition
Date Agency Received Petition: 05/27/2025
Petition: Petition to decertify the State's authority to issue commercial driver's licenses if not compliant with the English language proficiency policy.
Filing Organization: *National Association of the Deaf *
Date Agency Received Petition: 03/14/2019
Petition: Rescind the requirement for interstate drivers of commercial motor vehicles to be able to hear. Request that the U.S. Department of Transportation and the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration repeal the regulatory language or, in the alternative, obtain clarification on non-discriminatory terms in 49 CFR 391.11 and 383.133.
Filing Organization: Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance
Date Agency Received Petition: 10/22/2025
Petition: Petition to amend 49 CFR 391.11(b)(2) to place driver's Out of Service if they do not meet the English language proficiency requirements.
Filing Organization: Natasha Cruz-Sánchez
Date Agency Received Petition: 08/29/2025
Petition: Petition to amend 49 CFR 391.11(b)(2) to include formal English language proficiency certification.
Filing Organization: DOT Ready
Date Agency Received Petition: 09/8/2025
Petition: Amend 49 CFR 391 to reduce the employment history requirement on driver applications from 10 years to 3 years and expand the Pre-Employment Screening Program to include safety-related termination reporting with a rebuttal process.
Filing Organization: U.S. Custom Harvesters, Inc.
Date Agency Received Petition: 03/24/2025
Petition: Petition for clarification of the applicability of regulations in 49 CFR 391.2, 383.23(a)(2) and 381.153(a)(10)(vii) to the custom harvesting industry.
Filing Organization: Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance Date Agency Received Petition: 4/10/2024
Petition: Amend 49 CFR 392.4, Drugs and other substances, to include language that prohibits a driver who has been cited and issued an out-of-service order under 49 CFR 392.4 from violating that out-of-service order.
Filing Organization: Beqiri Defrim
Date Agency Received Petition: 05/05/2025
Petition: Amend 392.9(a) to prohibit activating operating authority for operations that are less than 10 units.
Filing Organization: Intelligent Motorist Alert Messaging System
Date Agency Received Petition: 08/18/2025
Petition: Petition to amend 49 CFR 392.22(b)(1)(2), for autonomous commercial vehicles.
Filing Organization: International Institute of Towing and Recovery
Date Agency Received Petition: 03/02/2025
Petition: Requests that FMCSA amend 49 CFR 393.128 to require a minimum of four separate points of securement to the vehicle being transported.
Filing Organization: Anthony Davis
Date Agency Received Petition: 11/13/2025
Petition: Petition to amend 49 CFR 395.3 to include a mandatory minimum 60-minute break after 8 hours of cumulative work or driving time for all commercial motor vehicles drivers subject to the rule.
Filing Organization: Small Business Transportation Coalition
Date Agency Received Petition: 11/1/2025
Petition: Request reconsideration of its September 10, 2021, petition for review of the Electronic Logging Device rule under 49 CFR 395.
Filing Organization: Federation of Professional Truckers
Date Agency Received Petition: 12/1/2025
Petition: Petition for rulemaking to modernize Hours-of-Service regulations under the 49 CFR 395.3(a)(3) and 395.3(c) by eliminating the 11-Hour Driving Limit and replacing the 34-Hour restart with a 24-Hour circadian restart.
Filing Organization: AWM Associates, LLC
Date Agency Received Petition: 12/08/2024
Petition: Amend 49 CFR 396.9 inspection of motor vehicles and intermodal equipment in operation, be revised to add verbiage that the driver is required to assist the inspector with the vehicle inspection.
Filing Organization: AWM Associates, LLC
Date Agency Received Petition: 08/08/2024
Petition: Petition to amend 49 CFR 397.2 and 390.3T regarding the transportation of hazardous materials.
FMCSA
Larry Minor
Associate Administrator of Policy Larry.minor@dot.gov
Last updated: Tuesday, December 16, 2025