Hours of service, revoked ELDs, CDL rules, English proficiency, medical cards, the Clearinghouse. We read the notice, then say plainly whether it parks a truck or leaves your price alone.
FMCSA's crash preventability pilot reviewed more than 5,600 crashes and found about 94 percent not preventable, yet it does not wipe every crash off your record.
On August 6, 2026 FMCSA revoked five ELDs. Carriers have until October 6 to swap them, and after that date a revoked unit counts as having no ELD at all.
Ignore an FMCSA civil penalty and from day 91 interstate operations can be prohibited; brokers and freight forwarders can lose their registration too.
In the Large Truck Crash Causation Study a driver's action or inaction was the critical reason in 88 percent of the sampled crashes. Weather was seldom to blame.
USDOT's June 2025 parking grants, more than $275 million including 917 spaces on Florida's I-4, do not open a legal lot on Midwest I-80 tonight.
In the final phase of NRII, certified examiners send exam results to the National Registry and state DMVs, so a crumpled MCSA-5876 stops being the record.
A new vetting process makes it harder for a revoked ELD to return to the registered list. Buy only from that list, write down the identifier, and skip the ad.
SafeDRIVE's first wave listed Illinois among 26 states for January 13 to 15; Highway Shield was a later corridor wave. Two operations, two calendars.
Since January 2020 the Clearinghouse has required queries before hiring and once a year. A screenshot from social media cannot stand in for the database.
On June 27, 2025 USDOT withdrew its proposed speed-limiter rule for heavy trucks. Our own company speed policy stays, and insurers still look at the governor.
FMCSA's ELD final rule set a two-year switch from paper, barred using the device to harass drivers, and let a smartphone qualify only if it met the spec and sat on the registered list.
Two FMCSA hours-of-service pilots finished small pre-tests this summer. The full launch in 2027 is a study, not a new clock for a dry van.
Since April 15, 2026 MCSAP states work to DataQs deadlines of 21, 21 and 45 days, yet an incorrect inspection stays in the CSA score until the state approves the review.
FMCSA's final guidance on brokers and bona fide agents explains why we want to see your MC and bond before a truck moves, rather than an email from a relative and a Joliet load agreed on a handshake.
On June 27, 2025 USDOT started a review of how every state issues non-domiciled CDLs. It is the parent file behind the state funding stories that followed.
State licensing agencies started verifying the Training Provider Registry before the skills test on February 7, 2022, and the checkpoint is still in force.
The 2016 ELDT final rule asks for proven proficiency instead of a minimum number of hours, and it created the Training Provider Registry. A weekend certificate does not make a CDL.
FMCSA reported that 79 devices have come off the registered list since January 2025. The tally cannot ground your truck; only your own device identifier can.
USDOT and HSI are examining roughly 75 entry-level CDL schools over fake certifications, and close to 10,000 providers have already been removed from the registry.
The final rule on non-domiciled CDLs drops EADs as proof and requires SAVE checks and a verified driving history. It governs how DMVs issue licenses and gives load boards no workaround.
The second Highway Shield wave focused on freight corridors in Illinois, Indiana, Iowa and Ohio: more time at the roadside, but no reason to worry about a legal truck.
As of January 1, 2003 every new U.S. and Canadian entrant should expect an on-site audit inside 18 months. A USDOT number comes with a duty to know the rules.
A USDOT number belongs to one legal entity for good and cannot be leased out; sell it and FMCSA will deactivate the number and revoke the linked registrations.
FMCSA plans to write English-language proficiency into a rule, so that a later memo cannot quietly undo what inspectors do at the scale.
The 2020 HOS rewrite still governs a dry van today: the on-duty break, the 8/2 and 7/3 sleeper splits, two extra hours in adverse driving and a wider short-haul window.
FMCSA's 90-day PeopleNet AOBRD waiver for Old Dominion and similar fleets gave nobody permission to run a $199 no-name logger today.
The July 2000 marking rule put the USDOT number on the power unit before it goes into service. Our door shows {{USDOT}} because that is the identification rule.
In the 18-month New Entrant monitoring window, one violation of 16 essential rules fails the audit. As a new carrier, Royser plays by it, and so should anyone hiring a new MC.
English Language Proficiency returned to the CVSA out-of-service criteria on June 25, 2025; the 2026 codification effort is a follow-up, not a second starting date.
PSP gives a nationwide look at a driver's last five years of crashes and three years of inspections from MCMIS. We use it on every hire, and it is a different file from the Clearinghouse.
