What is the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA)?
Established in 2000, the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (a separate administration within the U.S. Department of Transportation) is focused on reducing crashes, injuries, and fatalities involving large trucks and buses. The FMCSA establishes many rules and regulations regarding the trucking industry as well as supports numerous programs such as the Commercial Driver’s License Program which develops, monitors, and ensures compliance with the commercial driver licensing standards for drivers, carriers, and States. Extensive and thorough can best describe this site as it lists a vast number of truck driver regulations. A sampling includes: hours of service for drivers, special training requirements, preservation of records, minimum periodic inspection standards, transporting hazardous materials, drug and alcohol regulations, and more. A sampling of vehicle regulations includes: inspection, repair, maintenance; noise emission standards, truck size and weight limitations, trans
Effective January 1, 2000, the Motor Carrier Safety Improvement Act of 1999 created the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) as a separate administration within the US Department of Transportation. The primary mission of FMCSA is to reduce crashes, injuries and fatalities involving large trucks and buses. FMCSA is headquartered in Washington, D.C., and employs more than 1,000 individuals (in all 50 states), the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico. For more information, go to About FMCSA on the FMCSA website.
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