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Safety Culture – Operating your Motor Carrier in safety and Compliance

The civil cases resulting in NUCLEAR VERDICTS sound the alarm for tort reform. Nuclear verdicts are increasing both in amounts and frequency and the need for tort reform across the nation, especially in so-called “judicial hellholes”. Motor carriers need to be...

Not Just Safety — Reducing Risk by All Departments

Doug Marcello Why It Matters Risk reduction and denuclearization is not solely the responsibility of safety and risk departments. Every department can – and must – act within their powers to reduce exposure to liabilities.This is even more important in an era of...

Federal appeals court finds overtime pay exemption for interstate truckers applies to intrastate oilfield drivers

Tyson Fisher A federal appellate court has found that although Texas oil tanker drivers never leave the Lone Star state, they are still involved in interstate commerce and therefore exempt from overtime pay. Earlier this year, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals...

What is an MVR?

Kathy Close States are required, as part of their commercial driver’s licenses (CDLs) programs, to share and receive data from the federal CDL database, Commercial Driver’s License Information System (CDLIS). The state’s MVR includes any data entered on the driver’s...

SEC v. Jarkesy: A Groundbreaking Supreme Court Decision with Significant Implications for Securities Enforcement

NOTE: This Supreme Court Decision is important. 49CFR part 385, FMCSA has laid out the ADMINISTRATIVE process in which a motor carrier can use when receiving a notice of a proposed “unsatisfactory” safety rating or the findings of a Compliance Review. This Supreme...

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Safety Culture – Operating your Motor Carrier in safety and Compliance

Not Just Safety — Reducing Risk by All Departments

Federal appeals court finds overtime pay exemption for interstate truckers applies to intrastate oilfield drivers

What is an MVR?

SEC v. Jarkesy: A Groundbreaking Supreme Court Decision with Significant Implications for Securities Enforcement

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