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The FMCSA announced plans for a new study to measure and compare safety performance and fatigue levels of truck drivers who have two nighttime rest periods...

The FMCSA has released new recommendations to change the way that trucking companies review driving records for their employees. Digital State-Operated Digital Driving Records All trucking...

The FMCSA has ordered that Las Vegas, Nevada-based company: JDJD Transportation, LLC, (USDOT No. 2432071) immediately shut down after a federal investigation reviled an array of critical safety regulation violations.

Congress has suspended the FMCSA’s enforcement of the 34-hour restart rule in the Consolidated and Further Continuing Appropriations Act of 2015. During the suspension, the Agency will conduct a study over the impact the rule has on driver health, operational safety, and fatigue.

The $4 million study will examine the "impacts of restart restart breaks on commercial truck drivers’ safety performance and fatigue levels.

The Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance today announced the results of 2014 Operation Safe Driver.

Today, the FMCSA announced the agency's intent to conduct a study on "the impact of driver compensation on commercial motor vehicle safety."

According to a statement from the U.S. Department of Transportation's Office of the Inspector General (OIG), a Georgia man has been convicted of conspiracy to violate an FMCSA imminent hazard order.

The FMCSA has put the brakes on a South Carolina carrier and truck driver.

A South Carolina truck driver has pleaded guilty to making false statements on his pre-employment application.

According to a statement from the Department of Transportation's Office of the Inspector General (OIG), the FMCSA has disbarred Elizabeth Pope for three years for her role in falsifying FMCSA-regulated drug and alcohol testing documents.

“It is not lost on the trucking industry that the word ‘Accountability’ is in the title of CSA, yet FMCSA continues to ignore crash accountability,” said Osiecki.