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The Aviation, Innovation, Reform and Reauthorization Act, which seeks to radically transform the FAA and the American aviation landscape, is complicated by several controversial provisions related to the trucking industry as well as a possible correction to a “glitch” in … Continue reading →

New drivers, dust off your notebooks and sharpen your pencils. A new rule proposal from the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration is set to be published concerning new driver training. If put into effect, the regulation will provide a standardized … Continue reading →

Every-Day-Industry-News:  The typical seasonal decline in freight shipments is upon us; fuel prices remain attention grabbingly low and; industry members continue the chase to keep up with Washington’s forever-evolving guidelines of the trucking industry.  While the every-day-industry-news is essential to … Continue reading →

Out on the road, drivers of large tractor-trailers bear a lot of responsibility and safety is a top concern. To keep fatigued drivers off the road, the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration developed and enforces the Hour-of-Service (HOS) regulations which … Continue reading →

As part of its preparations for 2016, Congress passed the Consolidated Appropriations Act to pay for the various functions of the government in the New Year. Importantly, the $1.1 trillion spending bill has again suspended the enforcement by the FMCSA … Continue reading →

The FMCSA has a Safety Fitness Determination Rule (SFD) per mandate by Congress, but the question becomes whether the proposed system is any more effective –or less ineffective – than the old system? Is this proposal a step in the … Continue reading →

On December 10, 2015, the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) announced that its long-awaited- highly- debated- Final Rule mandating the use of electronic recording is officially here.  Without over-simplifying the issue, the change is essentially replacing HOS log books … Continue reading →

Roberts Perryman PC is pleased to announce a new hire, Andrew Laquet. Andrew will be located at the St. Louis office. Andrew joins Roberts Perryman P.C. from Boggs, Avellino, Lach & Boggs of St. Louis, MO where he represented clients … Continue reading →

The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) has adopted a new regulation which will prohibit anyone who operates a commercial motor vehicle in interstate commerce from coercing a driver to violate certain commercial regulations. This “Coercion … Continue reading →

On December 4, 2015, President Obama signed into law the Fixing America’s Surface Transportation Act highway bill (dubbed the “FAST Act 2015”). The five – year, $305 billion dollar highway funding bill includes several important trucking regulatory reforms and also … Continue reading →