Compliance 
NEW DRIVER PRESCREENING PROGRAM(0)
By: News From FMCSA
FMCSA has launched Phase 1 of the Pre-Employment Screening Program (PSP) today. The PSP is a screening tool that allows motor carriers and individual drivers to purchase drivers’ inspection and crash records contained the Motor Carrier Management Information System (MCMIS). Questions and answers about PSP can be found on the PSP Website, [...]
CHANGES TO THE NEW ENTRANT SAFETY ASSURANCE PROGRAM
The FMCSA (Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration) has come out with changes to the New Entrant Safety Assurance Program for US and Canada based motor carriers. It covers the time table and requirements a new entrant must fulfill along with information regarding safety audits and compliance reviews. It also covers what components make up the audit process [...]
CSA 2010 INFORMATION
In July of 2010 the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration will introduce a new program called the comprehensive safety analysis 2010. The idea behind the program is to make enforcement more efficient and effective. Currently, the enforcement system only conducts compliance reviews on 12,000 to 13,000 out of the estimate 700,000 carriers, less than 2%.
The [...]
NEW RULES FOR DRIVER’S MEDICAL CARD
The driver medical card has been seperate from the actual CDL license in the past, but in an effort to improve safety and stream line driver qualification status, the medical card will be phased out and combined with the CDL in January of 2012.
In March of 2009 the NATA reviewed the new regulations regarding medical card qualifications [...]