Save the Date: Monday, January 11, 2016
In conjunction with the 95th Annual TRB Meeting, the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) will host its annual Analysis, Research, and Technology Forum on Monday, January 11, 2016, from 8:00 a.m. to noon, in Salon B at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington, DC, located at 801 Mt. Vernon Place, NW.
The Forum will include a discussion of special topics, including an examination of large truck crash fatalities involving pedestrians and bicyclists, updates on the phased implementation of the Unified Registration System (URS), as well as presentations on other recent Agency activities and research investigations.
Guest speakers will present findings from a recent National Academy of Sciences expert panel study on methodological approaches to understanding commercial driver fatigue and from independent studies pertaining to medical examinations for commercial driver’s license (CDL) holders and their relation to truck and bus safety.
For more information, please visit www.trb.org.
Webinar Registration Link
To register, click on the link below:
December: https://connectdot.connectsolutions.com/admin/show-event-catalog?folder-id=1129332877
We have added a 9th session, on Friday, December 18 at 2 p.m. Eastern Time.
WEBINAR DESCRIPTION
This webinar, the second in the 2-part Unified Registration System (URS) Training Series, will provide a system demonstration of the URS. The purpose of this webinar is to present:
A brief overview of the URS regulation requirements as part of the planned phased implementation;
An introduction and step-by-step overview of the new online registration process; and
A general question-and-answer session for participants.
The URS is the electronic online registration system that streamlines and simplifies FMCSA’s registration process and serves as a clearinghouse and depository of information on all entities regulated by the Agency. The URS replaces the registration function of multiple FMCSA legacy information systems, including the Licensing and Insurance (L&I) system and the registration function of the Motor Carrier Management Information System (MCMIS). URS also replaces various forms that carriers, freight forwarders, and brokers currently use to register and update their information with a single, online registration process.
The webinar will be delivered 5 times in December:
- Tuesday, December 1, 2015
10 a.m. and 2 p.m. Eastern Time
- Thursday, December 3, 2015
10 a.m. Eastern Time
- Tuesday, December 15, 2015
10 a.m. and 2 p.m. Eastern Time
- ADDITIONAL AFTERNOON SESSION:
Friday, December 18, 2015
2 p.m. Eastern Time
Contacts for Registration Questions
For any general questions regarding these webinars, contact Kirse Kelly (kirse.kelly@dot.gov or 703-235-1324).
If you need assistance on the day of the webinar, please contact another member of the FMCSA NTC Webinar Team:
We look forward to your participation!
The FMCSA NTC Webinar Team
** The FMCSA National Training Center is committed to providing equal access to this training for all participants. Closed captioning is provided for all webinars. If you need any other alternative formats or services, please contact Kirse Kelly (kirse.kelly@dot.gov) with your request by close of business no later than 5 days prior to each event.
**FMCSA National Training Center ● ntchost@dot.gov ● 703-235-1501 ● http://www.fmcsa.dot.gov/ntc ● 1310 North Courthouse Road, Suite 600, Arlington, VA**
The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration has increased the fines associated with many commercial driver and carrier violations.
The fines that are changing are listed below with the amount of the change and the new value respectively.
- Out-of-service order: Operation of CMV by driver, up $1,000 to $3,100
- Out-of-service order: Requiring or permitting driver to operate CMV, up $5,000 to $21,000
- Out-of-service order: Operation by driver of equipment placed OOS: up $1,000 to $3,100
- Out of service order: Requiring or permitting driver to operate equipment placed OOS, up $5,000 to $21,000
- Failure to return written certification of correction following OOS order: up $100 to $850
- Conducting operations during suspension or revocation for failure to pay penalties: up $5,000 to $16,000
- Recordkeeping: Maximum penalty per day: up $100 to $1,100
- Recordkeeping: Maximum penalty total: up $1,000 to $11,000
- Knowing falsification of records: up $1,000 to $11,000
- Non-recordkeeping violations: up $5,000 to $16,000
- Non-recordkeeping violations by drivers: up $1,000 to $2,750
- Alcohol prohibition violations: up $1,000 to $4,750
- CDL violations: up $1,000 to $4,750
- Special penalties, OOS violation (first violation): up $250 to $2,750
- Special penalties, OOS violation (subsequent violations): up $500 to $5,500
- Knowingly allowing, authorizing employee violations of OOS order (minimum): up $1,000 to $4,750
- Knowingly allowing, authorizing employee violations of OOS order (maximum): up $2,500 to $27,500
- Special penalties, railroad-highway grade crossing violations: up $1,000 to $11,000
- Financial responsibility (insurance) violations: up $5,000 to $21,000
- Charging services for HHG not performed: up $1,000 to $7,500
- Tariff violations: up $20,000 to $140,000
- Tariff violations, freight forwarders (maximum, first violation): up $100 to $750
- Tariff violations, freight forwarders (maximum, subsequent violations): up $1,000 to $3,200
- Service from freight forwarders at less than rate in effect (first violation): up $650 to $750
- Service from freight forwarders at less than rate in effect (subsequent violations): up $1,000 to $3,200
- Loading and unloading violations: up $5,000 to $16,000
- Reporting and recordkeeping (maximum): up $1,000 to $7,500
- Unauthorized disclosure of information: up $1,000 to $3,200
- Knowingly and willfully failing to deliver or unload HHG at destination: up $1,000 to $11,000
- HHG broker estimate before entering into agreement with carrier: up $900 to $10,900
- Copying of records and access to equipment, lands and buildings (maximum per day): up $100 to $1,100
- Copying of records and access to equipment, lands and building (total): up $1,000 to $11,000
