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Trucking and Motorcoaches

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FMCSA Providing Safety Support At 2002 Winter Olympics

The U.S. Department of Transportation's Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) is employing infrared technology to screen trucks and buses for potential problems with brakes, tires, and gears as these vehicles travel roads near the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City.

DOT Enforcing Prohibited Placard Restrictions on Trucks

In an effort to protect the traveling public, the U.S. Department of Transportation's Fed-eral Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) today announced that it is enforcing a re-quirement prohibiting motor carriers from placing extraneous information on placards and in placard holders. These...

FMCSA Fines Four Household Goods Motor Carriers

The U.S. Department of Transportation's Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) today announced that it has fined four for-hire motor carriers hauling primarily household goods from New York, New Jersey, and Illinois for multiple violations of the Federal Motor Carrier Safety...

Clapp Sworn in as Head of Motor Carrier Safety Agency

U.S. Transportation Secretary Norman Y. Mineta today welcomed Joseph M. Clapp to the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) as the first Administrator of the department's newest agency, the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA). Clapp was confirmed by the U.S. Senate on September...

FMCSA Shuts Down "Unfit" Kansas-Based Motor Carrier

The U.S. Department of Transportation's (USDOT) Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) issued an Operations Out-of-Service Order (OOSO) to Curtis W. Hutchison (dba C. Hutchison Trucking) (USDOT # 687007), located in St. John, Kansas. Curtis W. Hutchison (dba C. Hutchison Trucking)...