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Top 10 freight market rulemakings scheduled for 2025

WASHINGTON — Earlier this month, the Biden administration’s Office of Management and Budget released the Fall 2024 edition of the biennial Unified Agenda of Federal Regulatory and Deregulatory Actions. The agenda updates the status of active and longer-term rulemakings, including the latest estimated target date for the next step in the rulemaking process.

U.S. freight markets are indirectly affected by regulations crafted by almost any agency, but several, including the modal agencies at the...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/top-10-freight-market-rulemakings-scheduled-for-2025

Automation, speed limiters on former FMCSA deputy’s radar for 2025

WASHINGTON — Three federal rulemakings that have cost implications for truckers and motor carriers are on the short-term horizon for a former top official at the Federal Motor Carriers Safety Administration.

Earl Adams, who served as FMCSA’s deputy administrator and chief counsel under former administrator Robin Hutcheson, led a team at the agency that is developing the first major set of rules for high-level automation in heavy-duty trucks.

Earl Adams. Credit: Hogan Lovells

The result of that...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/automation-speed-limiters-on-former-fmcsa-deputys-radar-for-2025

Truck safety advocates say DOT inaction costing lives

WASHINGTON — The latest rulemaking agenda published by the Department of Transportation further reveals the Biden administration’s inability to succeed at its mission to reduce crashes, according to truck safety advocates.

In a letter sent this week to Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, the Truck Safety Coalition (TSC), which also represents Citizens for Reliable and Safe Highways and Parents Against Tired Truckers, said the groups are “dismayed, disappointed, and deeply disturbed” by...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/truck-safety-advocates-say-dot-inaction-costing-lives

FMCSA delays speed limiter rule to May 2025

WASHINGTON — Federal regulators are delaying several rulemakings affecting the trucking sector, including a controversial rule that would limit new trucks’ engine speeds.

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration’s proposed truck speed limiter rule, scheduled to be published last month, has been delayed to May 2025, according to the U.S. Department of Transportation’s latest agenda released by the White House Office of Management and Budget.

The proposed rule, which would require that...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/fmcsa-delays-speed-limiter-rule-to-may-2025

FMCSA questioned on studies added to safety fitness rulemaking

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WASHINGTON — A group of trade associations is warning federal regulators against including data the...

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Is FMCSA tipping its hand on carrier safety fitness?

WASHINGTON — Federal regulators are providing a rare glimpse into information they may consider for a significant rule affecting how carriers are considered fit to be operating.

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration published on Friday a “notice of data availability” — or “NODA” — to alert the public about a set of studies it could rely on to develop a proposed or final rule that will be used to determine a carrier’s safety fitness rating.

“This NODA is necessary to disclose such...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/is-fmcsa-tipping-its-hand-on-carrier-safety-fitness

OOIDA calls long delay in truck broker rate transparency rule ‘BS’

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WASHINGTON — After years of waiting and prodding from small-business truckers, federal regulators...

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AARP pushes feds to protect older pedestrians from truck accidents

WASHINGTON — The country’s largest advocacy group for people over 50 wants federal regulators to do more to protect pedestrians from getting hit by trucks.

AARP — formerly the American Association of Retired Persons — is pushing the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration to require pedestrian automatic emergency braking (PAEB) in heavy-duty trucks.

Like AEB, PAEB relies on forward-looking detection sensors to assist drivers by...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/aarp-pushes-feds-to-protect-older-pedestrians-from-truck-accidents

Loaded and Rolling: Safety officials want brakes on braking mandate

Safety officials want brakes on braking mandate

(Photo: Jim Allen/FreightWaves)

Proposed rulemaking on automatic emergency braking (AEB) introduced in June by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration is getting more pushback from a coalition of state law enforcement officials and brake manufacturers that argue more dialogue is needed before moving forward. 

To illustrate some of the math that impacts government rulemaking, both the...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/loaded-and-rolling-safety-officials-want-brakes-on-braking-mandate

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