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To help educate the public about how to share the road safely with commercial vehicles, Congress directed the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) to create a Share the Road public outreach program. In response, FHWA has established the popular No-Zone Campaign to caution drivers to stay clear...
"Tank Check '97," the first national cargo tank performance review conducted by the Federal Highway Administration, identified a variety of cargo tank safety problems last month.
The Federal Highway Administration has now published implementation guidelines for motor carriers in setting up drug and alcohol testing programs.
Top truck and bus safety enforcement personnel from the United States, Canada and Mexico will compete Aug. 19-23 in Minneapolis for safety inspection honors.
To reduce truck crashes, the Federal Highway Administration's Office of Motor Carriers (OMC) continues to vigorously enforce carrier safety regulations, conduct compliance reviews, and help " high risk" carriers improve their safety performance.
Motor carrier safety ratings and other safety data are now available on the Internet at http://www.safer.fmcsa.dot.gov.
The study is in the docket in the Federal Highway Administration's rulemaking, Hours of Service of Drivers. Along with the entire FHWA docket system, this proceeding has been transferred to the DOT docket system, with the new docket number being FHWA-97-002350. Copies of the study may be...
In response to numerous inquiries and requests, the 60-page technical summary of the recently completed Driver Fatigue and Alertness Study is now available.
A new national system of selecting motor carriers for on-site safety inspections, concentrating on a carrier's safety performance to identify and prioritize carriers that are "at risk," is being instituted this month by the Federal Highway Administration.
Now available to interested parties is a new Federal Highway Administration publication, "Implementation Guidelines for Alcohol and Drug Regulations in Highway Transportation."