FMCSA revamps supporting docs policy
Posted on Mon, Jun 07, 2010
By Avery Vise
Published June, 07 2010
The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration has decided not to require any motor carriers to retain certain documents related to drivers’ hours of service. The agency also will relieve carriers that use electronic mobile communications and tracking technology of the burden of maintaining numerous other supporting documents in order to verify driver logs.
The new regulatory guidance and policy, which will take effect 30 days after publication in the Federal Register, will benefit those carriers who have faced additional scrutiny since December 2008 when the agency adopted a policy…………Read more