Guidance Q&A Question 1: How to File a Moving Fraud Complaint?

Guidance: The FMCSA provides a link on the Protect Your Move website (https://www.fmcsa.dot.gov/protect-your-move/file-a-complaint) where consumers may file complaints when they are victims...

Guidance Q&A Question 1: What Should You do if You Have a Dispute with Your Mover?

Question 1:  What Should You do if You Have a Dispute with Your Mover?

Federal regulations require all movers to have an arbitration program to resolve disputes about property loss and damage, and disputes about whether any charges in addition to those...

If a driver is required repeatedly to respond to satellite or similar communications received during a 10-hour off-duty period (8-hour off-duty period for passenger transportation), does this activity affect a driver’s duty status?

Hours of Service Definitions

§395.2 Definitions.  

Question 31: If a driver is required repeatedly to respond to satellite or similar communications received during a 10-hour off-duty period (8-hour off-duty period for passenger transportation), does...

When a driver fails to meet the provisions of the 100 air-mile radius exemption (section 395.1(e)), is the driver required to have copies of his/her records of duty status for the previous seven days?

Hours of Service

§395.1 Scope of the rules in this part.  

Question 21: When a driver fails to meet the provisions of the 100 air-mile radius exemption (section 395.1(e)), is the driver required to have copies of his/her records of duty status for the...

UFA Fine Assessment Version 4.0 Software; Calculating Amounts of Civil Penalties for Violations of Regulations, 78 Fed. Reg. 54365

UFA Fine Assessment Version 4.0 Software; Calculating Amounts of Civil Penalties for Violations of Regulations, 78 Fed. Reg. 54365 (Sept. 3, 2013).

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Are drivers required to be dedicated permanently to the oilfield industry?

Hours of Service Exceptions

§395.1 Scope of the rules in this part.  

Question 9: Are drivers required to be dedicated permanently to the oilfield industry, or must they exclusively transport oilfield equipment or service the field operations of the...

If a vehicle with a manufacturer’s GVWR of less than 10,001 pounds has been structurally modified to carry a heavier load, may an enforcement officer use the higher actual gross weight of the vehicle, instead of the GVWR, to determine the applicability of

Question 4: If a vehicle with a manufacturer’s GVWR of less than 10,001 pounds has been structurally modified to carry a heavier load, may an enforcement officer use the higher actual gross weight of the vehicle, instead of the GVWR, to determine the applicability of the FMCSRs?

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Supplemental Policy on Assessing Maximum Fines under the Motor Carrier Safety Improvement Act of 1999 (MCSIA) Section 222, 74 Fed. Reg. 14184

Federal Register Title and Cite

Supplemental Policy on Assessing Maximum Fines under the Motor Carrier Safety Improvement Act of 1999 (MCSIA) Section 222, 74 Fed. Reg. 14184 (Mar. 30, 2009)

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