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Trucksafe featured on Haulin' Notes podcast
Trucksafe's Brandon Wiseman and Jerad Childress recently joined Susan Ogle of Canal Insurance's Haulin' Notes podcast to highlight Trucksafe's exciting new initiatives, including: • Trucksafe Academy - Our state-of-the-art, online training platform for fleet owners, safety managers, drivers, and third parties. • Trucksafe LIVE! - A monthly livestream where Trucksafe and its industry-expert guests address the hot-button issues impacting highway transportation. • The Trucksafe Compliance Network
FMCSA seeking comments on "brokerage" definitions
The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) is seeking responses to several questions that will inform future guidance on the topic of what is "brokerage" and "bona fide agents." In a notice posted to the Federal Register on June 9, 2022, the agency noted its questions come in response to a Congressional directive (Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act) to clarify the terms "broker" and "bona fide agents" by November 15, 2022. Specifically, FMCSA must, at minimum: FMCSA (1) examine
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Trucksafe addresses top HOS issues
Trucksafe's president Brandon Wiseman recently joined the Safe as Truck podcast to discuss the top hours-of-service, driver logging, and ELD violations plaguing motor carriers and their fleets. Check it out below!
Trucksafe joins Safe as Truck podcast to discuss HOS
Trucksafe's Brandon Wiseman recently joined LogRock on its Safe as Truck podcast to discuss common hours-of-service violations and how to avoid them. In particular, Brandon addresses common pain points like personal conveyance, unidentified driving time, and ELD-related violations. Catch the replay below!
FMCSA issues exemption to carriers hauling baby formula
In a notice posted May 23, 2022, the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) declared a national emergency related to the closure of a key manufacturing facility for baby formula and the resulting nationwide formula shortage. According to the notice, "th[e] Emergency Declaration addresses nationwide emergency conditions creating a need for immediate transportation of baby formula, ingredients for the production of baby formula including but not limited to whey, casein, corn syrup and
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Trucksafe's Brandon Wiseman joins "Taking the Hire Road"
Trucksafe's president Brandon Wiseman recently joined the "Taking the Hire Road" podcast, a DriverReach and FreightWaves production, to discuss the intersection between DOT compliance and driver recruiting. Catch the replay below!
FMCSA revives discussion on mandatory state passenger CMV inspections
In a notice soon to be published in the Federal Register, the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) announced it will be reopening comments on its 2016 Advanced Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (ANPRM) concerning mandatory state inspections of certain passenger-carrying commercial motor vehicles (CMVs).In 2016, FMCSA published an ANPRM titled “State Inspection Programs for Passenger-Carrier Vehicles." The ANPRM announced that FMCSA was considering a requirement that States establish a
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Understanding the Pre-Employment Screening Program (PSP)
At its heart, PSP provides carriers, individual drivers, and industry service providers access to commercial drivers' safety records from th
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What fleets need to know about Entry-Level Driver Training (2022)
Trucksafe's President and transportation attorney Brandon Wiseman recently joined Tenstreet to discuss the recently implemented Entry-Level Driver Training (ELDT) rule and what motor carriers need to understand about that rule. In this article, we'll recap some of the most frequently asked questions about ELDT. Impact of new ELDT on existing training requirementsHistorically, the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Regulations (FMCSRs) have had very little to say about mandatory training for commercial
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