For the past 20 years, the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) has utilized a “New Entrant Safety Assurance Program” under 49 CFR Part 385, Subpart D for motor carriers receiving USDOT ...

An audit of the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) motor carrier safety program has been initiated by the Department of Transportation's An audit of the Federal Motor Carrier Safety ...

The top violations cited during motor carrier audits are more than trivia for the curious. They are a snapshot that help understand where many motor carriers are struggling in compliance. Each year, ...

FMCSA at one time tried to audit each new entrant within its first 18 months of operation until Congress urged that these initial audits be conducted within a year. Every year an average of 34,000 new ...

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy on Thursday threatened to pull $75 million in federal funds from the Pennsylvania ...

If COVID-19 has taught us anything, it’s how to adapt. Prior to the pandemic, approximately 17% of U.S. employees worked from their homes five or more days per week, a number that skyrocketed to ...

A new Department of Transportation Inspector General audit concludes that the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration’s information technology infrastructure is fraught with security weaknesses ...

A Department of Transportation (“DOT”) audit [1] is something that all motor carriers dread. The potential for a Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (“FMCSA”) investigator can often have ...

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration's safety review activity -- most owner-operators refer to federal/state reviews of carrier operations as audits -- has for the second year in a row ...