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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."
The Federal Highway Administration will hold a public hearing August 9 in Chicago to obtain public views on research into the vision standards required to operate a commercial motor vehicle.
The sight of trucks parked along highways while their drivers sleep may be due in large measure to a nationwide need for more public and private truck parking spaces, according to a study commissioned for the Federal Highway Administration.
"Who Must Comply With the U.S. DOT Safety Regulations?" is the title of an updated brochure the Federal Highway Administration has re-issued for the guidance of people who operate trucks and buses
In a step to increase awareness of and compliance with the safety regulations, the Federal Highway Administration is proposing to eliminate two of the three current motor carrier safety ratings, retaining only the "unsatisfactory" category.