FMCSA Issues Safety Advisory for the Immediate Re-inspection and Retesting of Certain Cargo Tank Motor Vehicles

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) is issuing a safety advisory to provide notice to owners and operators of certain cargo tanks that they have: 1) been improperly inspected and tested, and 2) must be re-inspected and retested before being used in Hazardous Materials...

FMCSA Reminds Medical Examiners and Commercial Motor Vehicle Drivers that Revised Driver Examination Forms Must Be Used Beginning April 20, 2016

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) reminds Medical Examiners (MEs) and commercial motor vehicle (CMV) drivers that, as of April 20, 2016, certified MEs performing physical examinations of CMV drivers must use the revised versions of the Medical Examination Report (MER) Form...

U.S. Department of Transportation Announces Formation of Motor Carrier Safety Assistance Program Formula Working Group

The U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) today announced the formation of the Motor Carrier Safety Assistance Program (MCSAP) Formula Working Group.  The Fixing America’s Surface Transportation (FAST) Act requires the DOT Secretary to establish a working group to analyze the requirements...

FMCSA Orders Lyons Limousine to Shut Down

The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) today announced that it has ordered Edgerton, Wisconsin-based Lyons Limousine, LLC, USDOT No. 2314875, to immediately cease all intrastate and interstate operations after a federal investigation...

FMCSA Declares California Truck Driver to be an Imminent Hazard to Public Safety

The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) has declared California-licensed truck driver Yakov Zaverukha to be an imminent hazard to public safety and has ordered him not to operate any commercial motor vehicle in interstate commerce. ...

FMCSA Bans Canadian Truck Driver from Operating in the U.S.

Ontario-licensed driver declared to be an imminent hazard to public safety

FMCSA Orders Shutdown of North Carolina Trucking Company

The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) today announced that it has ordered Hendersonville, North Carolina-based Leslie Erickson, doing business as Les’s Tree and Stump, Inc., USDOT No. 2512204, to immediately cease all intrastate and...

Texas Bus Company Withdraws Its Appeal of FMCSA Shut-down Order

An Irving, Texas-based charter bus operation that illegally operated ten unsafe motorcoaches to transport perhaps as many as 500 passengers from Dallas to Philadelphia and back for Pope Francis’ September 2015 U.S. visit, has withdrawn its appeal of a November 12, 2015, order by the U.S....

FMCSA Orders Shutdown of Wyoming Trucking Company

The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) today announced that it has ordered Gillette, Wyoming-based Bar D Bar Trucking, LLC, USDOT No. 1701437, to immediately cease all intrastate and interstate operations after a federal investigation found...

USDOT Announces Unrepaired Recalled Volvo Trucks That May Still be Operating on the Nation’s Roadways Are in an Unsafe Condition

Vehicles Are to Be Immediately Placed Out-of-Service by Federal and State Inspectors

The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA), in collaboration with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), has determined that...