News & Reports
ELD tampering: CVSA drafts new inspections bulletin to combat ‘dangerous trend’
Alex Lockie ELD tampering has become such a widespread phenomenon that sales agents are cold calling motor carriers offering "ELD editing" and authorities are drafting a new inspections bulletin to combat the "dangerous trend," according to trucking owner-ops and...
ELD-tampering out-of-service orders: New for CVSA’s 2026 OOS criteria
Todd Dills A new inspection bulletin from the Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance of enforcement and industry outlines changes in procedure for documenting what's traditionally known as a false-logs violation. Such a violation is marked when an inspector determines a...
The Discovery Fallacy: Why Avoiding Data Analysis Guarantees You Lose
My note; Doug Marcello is one of the most distinguished lawyers who works with trucking companies. Carefully consider his advice - my experiences as an expert witness has proven his point many times. - Joel Doug Marcello Every trucking company I talk to has...
CVSA News
Registration Is Open for the CVSA Workshop Registration is open for the CVSA Workshop, scheduled for April 19-23, in Chicago, Illinois. The workshop provides the opportunity for enforcement, government officials and industry to continue to work together to advance...
FMCSA finalizes 12 deregulatory changes
The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) has finalized a broad array of deregulatory changes affecting vehicle standards, inspection requirements, emergency equipment, licensing rules, and more. Published February 19, 2026, the rule changes have limited...
REAL-ID, Mail-Order CDLs, and America’s CDL Free-for-All
You can buy a Mexican commercial license online for $200. Six states will convert it to an American CDL without verifying your legal presence. And the federal audit just started. Rob Carpenter Somewhere between a Philadelphia apartment and a flea market in...
2025 in Review: Deregulation, Stepped-Up Enforcement, and Safety as a Policy Tool
Scopelitis From a regulatory standpoint, 2025 was not defined by sweeping new trucking rules but instead by how the federal government chose to act: deregulating selectively, enforcing aggressively, and increasingly using safety as justification for broader...
Bill to reform DataQs process reintroduced
Legislation introduced this week in the U.S. House takes another shot at DataQs reform after similar legislation stalled in the previous Congress. Reps. Tracey Mann (R-Kansas) and Sharice Davids (D-Kansas) reintroduced the “Motor Carrier Safety Screening Modernization...
Denuclearization: EFFECTIVE Training
Doug Marcello There is a painful irony embedded in every nuclear verdict involving negligent training. The company trained. They held the sessions. They logged the hours. They filed the paperwork. They checked every box their compliance department put in front of...
EPA nukes the legal basis for emission rules. What does this mean for trucking?
Tyson Fisher It’s official. The Environmental Protection Agency has withdrawn the 2009 endangerment finding, dismantling nearly 20 years of vehicle emission regulations. What does this mean for trucking, and where do we go from here? On Thursday, Feb. 12, President...