Tag Archive for ‘FMCSA’

The Capacity Crisis and Commercial Vehicle Safety – CSCMP Mega Sessions Explore Two Critical Issues Facing the Industry

More than 8,000 members from 67 countries rely on CSCMP (the Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals) to help them remain connected to the best of the best — experts, technology, knowledge — in the vast and complex world of global supply chain and logistics. From Oct. 2-5 in Philadelphia, CSCMP will hold the organization’s [...]

E-logs – Early Adoption Has its Benefits

By 2014, truck drivers will be required to use electronic log books (e-logs) under a federal mandate by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMSCA). As expected, the transition to e-logs is likely to cause both an operational and cultural shift for drivers, carriers and shippers — after all, paper-based logs have been used in [...]

The (HOS) Plot Thickens

Just when you thought FMCSA could finally begin the process of putting together a final ruling on the proposed changes to truck drivers’ hours-of-service (HOS) rules, the Administration announced that it is reopening the comment period yet again. The reason they’re doing this so late in the game? Four newly discovered fatigue studies — research [...]

Guest blogger FMCSA Administrator Anne Ferro: Adding women can strengthen the trucking industry

This blog post by Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administrator Anne Ferro, originally appeared in “The Fast Lane — The Official Blog of the U.S. Secretary of Transportation” on March 17th. Women are thriving in every sector of our society.  We are leading businesses and serving at the highest levels of government.  We are succeeding in [...]

We Know You Hear Us, But Are You Really Listening?

If I had a dollar for every time my mother asked me while growing up, “I know that you hear me, but are you listening?” I’d be writing this blog from a small beachfront home somewhere in the Caribbean. But instead, here I sit at my desk on a cold, snowy, Midwestern afternoon and ask [...]

Driver Dock Detention Costs All

Anne Ferro, administrator for the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, recently addressed members of the National Industrial Transportation League about an issue that’s become all too common industrywide – driver detention at the docks. Ferro reminded those shippers and receivers in attendance that driver safety and that of the motoring public will remain at risk [...]

You Have to Ask Yourself Why?

A few weeks ago, the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) issued a regulatory proposal that would revise the hours-of-service (HOS) requirements for commercial truck drivers. Why you ask? In October 2009, the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) signed an HOS litigation settlement agreement with the Teamsters Union and Public Citizen. [...]