Truckinginfo

FMCSA Finally Releases Entry-Level Driver Training Rule

Talk about taking the long way around the block: A final rule on minimum entry-level CDL training requirements-- issued in December 2016 -- has at last gone into effect, having been delayed several ...
Truckinginfo

FMCSA Finally Issues Final Rule on Driver-Training Standards

A very long-awaited final rule on national minimum training standards for entry-level applicants seeking to obtain a commercial driver’s license or certain endorsements was announced on Dec. 7 by the ...
Fleet Owner

FMCSA’s Safe Driver Apprenticeship Program struggles to collect data on under-21 CDL drivers

If a tree falls in the forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound? In our industry, we wonder: If a driver is under 21, is there enough data to determine if they are safe enough to ...
Overdrive

FMCSA announces action on two driver training exemption requests

Rex Railsback, owner of Railsback HazMat Safety Professionals, received an exemption from the theory instructor qualification requirements in the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration's Entry ...
CCJ

ATRI begins study to update entry-level truck driver research

The American Transportation Research Institute on Tuesday issued a call for motor carrier participation in new research analyzing the impacts of new entrant truck driver training on safety and ...
Transport Topics

What to Know About DOT’s Crackdown on CDL Mills

The Department of Transportation removed nearly 3,000 truck driver training providers from the federal registry and warned 4,000 more after a nationwide compliance review. Officials said the review ...
Transport Topics

FMCSA Weighs Commercial Driver License Streamlining

Federal trucking regulators are proposing to speed up the process for obtaining a commercial driver license by removing a number of regulatory restrictions. The Federal Motor Carrier Safety ...
Hoodline

Feds Squeeze Oklahoma Truck Licenses In Non‑Domiciled Driver Crackdown

For smaller CDL schools and carriers that depend on non‑domiciled drivers, the near‑term worry is less abstract policy and ...
Fleet Owner

FMCSA wants to study how drivers interact with automated systems

The agency proposes a study of Level 2 and Level 3 automation in commercial vehicles related to ‘non-driving’ tasks, driver behavior, and training. FMCSA also wants to know more about how CDL drivers ...
Yahoo

DOT kicks 3,000 truck driver trainers off registry

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. FMCSA weeding out non-compliant truck driver training. (Photo: Jim Allen/FreightWaves) WASHINGTON — Regulators have banned 3,000 ...
Overdrive

CDL schools call out 'threat' of 'unscrupulous training entities'

Trade groups representing public and private CDL trainers across the nation wrote a letter to Department of Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy calling out the Federal Motor Carrier Safety ...