Motor Carrier Safety makes clear the regulations and provides the you with a practical source for complying with them. This book helps you to understand your regulatory exposure for non-compliance and guides you through the steps to becoming compliant. The Guide's plain English explanations, well organized regulations, cross-references, and practical tips help you understand and implement the FMCSRs, plus the Guide helps you prepare for a compliance review.
It offers suggestions for protecting employers against the most common litigation threats and recommendations for handling various types of employee problems. Throughout the Guide are numerous exhibits, useful checklists and forms, and do's and don'ts. A list of HR audit questions at the beginning of each chapter serves as an aid in evaluating your company's level of regulatory compliance. This comprehensive and practical guide clearly and concisely describes the essential requirements and administrative processes necessary to comply with all benefits-related regulations.
It covers key federal regulatory issues that must be addressed by human resources managers, benefits specialists, and company executives across all industries.
Popular Books. The Becoming by Nora Roberts. Despite extensive deregulation of the trucking industry through the 's and the transfer of licensing and monitoring of professional truck drivers to the States, the FMCSR remains the sole safety standard. The agency was established as a separate administration within U. In carrying out its safety mandate to reduce crashes, injuries, and fatalities involving large trucks and buses, FMCSA:.
While the methodology for calculating SMS safety scores has evolved over time in response to suggestions from stakeholders, the program has proven effective at identifying unsafe, high-risk carriers.
FMCSA anticipated releasing the findings in FMCSA has reached its goal of at least 40, certified MEs signing onto the registry, meaning drivers can now find certified medical examiners throughout the country who can competently perform their medical exam. These daily updates, which FMCSA will transmit to states electronically, will dramatically decrease the chance of drivers falsifying medical cards.
Shippers and brokers have used the CSA scores as a bench-mark to find safe carriers. With this hidden there may be more calls for legislation establishing uniform federal standards for qualifying carriers. House Bill H. The American Transportation Research Institute ATRI released a report in criticizing the CSA scoring, citing that a lack of 'crash accountability or crash weighting in CSA has long-plagued the program', negatively affecting scores on crashes that are not the fault of the carrier or driver.
All non-exempt commercial motor vehicles that cross state lines, including big-rig trucks, are subject to the federal motor carrier safety regulations. If these semi-trucks are operating within one state, they need to abide by state-equivalent motor carrier safety regulations.
The intent of the regulations is to cover all persons and entities involved in operating commercial vehicles, including:. The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Regulations FMCSRs set forth minimum standards for those involved with the operation of commercial motor vehicles in interstate commerce, in order to cover all people and entities involved in interstate operation of these trucks. Overall, buses and motorcoaches are a safe and convenient means of travel.
However, disreputable companies and unqualified drivers contribute disproportionately to what are often highly publicized crashes.
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