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The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration Tuesday announced a slate of changes to its safety rating system designed to ratchet up enforcement of hazardous materials carriers and mitigate an inspection bias against flatbed haulers.

Federal regulators have bowed to anti-truck groups and unfairly called into question the integrity of police accident reports by delaying development of a process that could remove unpreventable crashes from carriers’ safety records, American Trucking Associations officials said Tuesday.

The governors of Indiana and Kentucky have signed an agreement to share construction costs for two new toll bridges across the Ohio River that are projected to cost truckers $10 to cross.

WASHINGTON — The head of the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration said the agency will issue strict guidance to medical examiners later this year on how to detect and treat sleep disorders when administering physicals to truck drivers.

The Port of Baltimore is offering short-haul drayage operators and owners who scrap their older engine models up to $20,000 each toward the cost of a Class 8 vehicle that meets or exceeds the 2007 EPA emission certified engine standard.

A controversial 34-hour restart provision in the new hours-of-service rule will help ensure that truck drivers do not experience cumulative fatigue, Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration Administrator Anne Ferro told Transport Topics.

Transportation workers with potentially disqualifying criminal records are being issued Transportation Worker Identification Credentials in some cases because Transportation Security Administration officials are not permitted full access to information contained in FBI criminal databases, according to a new report by congressional investigators.

Federal regulators this week issued a formal clarification intended to close a potential loophole that has permitted some motor carriers to pay a civil fine in full without admitting guilt or liability of a violation.

Federal regulators have accepted a petition from several trade organizations who have complained that fluctuating federal hazardous materials safety permit requirements are causing some safe motor carriers to loose their eligibility and even cease operations.