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This is an Imminent Hazard Operations Out-of-Service Order (“ORDER”) issued by the Secretary of the United States Department of Transportation (the “Secretary”) pursuant to 49 U.S.C. § 521(b)(5)(A), 49 U.S.C. § 13905(f), 49 U.S.C. § 31144(c)(1), and (5), and 49 C.F.R. § 386.72(b)(1), and...
Why didn’t FMCSA publish an Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (ANPRM) for the Safety Fitness Determination (SFD) rule as discussed in Section 5202 of the FAST Act?
Section 31136(g) provides the Secretary with the authority to waive this requirement when it “is...
March 18, 2016
The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) is issuing this bulletin based upon a safety recall initiated by Volvo Trucks affecting nearly 20,000 Class 8 motor vehicles, with more than 17,000 affected vehicles in the United States (click here to view Volvo...
Volvo Trucks North America recently learned of four cases in which the steering failed on vehicles equipped with a greaseable two-piece steering shaft manufactured by Willi Elbe. Based on our inquiry into these incidents, we are proactively contacting all of the owners of the affected vehicles...
This is a completed sample form which provides authorization to the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration to publish seizure exemption information in a public docket.
This document is the Federal Seizure Exemption Application that must be submitted to the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) for consideration.
The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration has identified a number of resources that provide widely-accepted standard social science protocols for conducting sound research. The list below, while not exhaustive, summarizes these protocols. Any entity conducting research,...
Provides all the information necessary for States to develop their local systems to satisfy the PRISM Requirements and interface with the PRISM Central Site.
PRISM State Implementation Map, March 2016.