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This National Highway Traffic Safety Administration report provides only a preliminary analysis of year-to-year fatality numbers over multiple categories and does not draw conclusions as to the direct cause of the crashes. But some groups are responding to the rise in fatal crashes by advancing their preferred solutions.

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Listen to the new episode of the “Eyes on the Road” trucking podcast from PrePass as host Evan Lockridge talks with Tom Kloza, long-time fuel and oil analyst with the Oil Price Information Service. They discuss the causes of the recent diesel price spike, the reasons diesel has grown so much more expensive than gasoline, whether solutions to provide price relief will actually work and much more.

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Diesel prices are at or near record highs and there is no indication as to when they may return to more typical levels. That creates a hardship on trucking operations of all sizes. Fortunately, there are some ways you can help reduce how much your motor carrier operation is spending on fuel.

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The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration is responding to the COVID-19 variants and to supply chain challenges by again extending its emergency declaration. The updated emergency declaration now runs through Aug. 31, 2022. The prior emergency declaration expired on May 31, 2022. Like the previous version of the COVID-19 emergency declaration this updated FMCSA response grants motor carriers and truck drivers relief only from Federal Motor Carrier Safety Regulations Part 395.3, the maximum driving time for property-carrying vehicles, with certain restrictions.

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In 2012, Congress passed the Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century Act, better known as MAP-21. Within that transportation bill, one section made it unlawful for any transportation entity – motor carrier, shipper, receiver, transportation intermediary – to coerce truck drivers to operate in violation of certain federal safety regulations. FMCSA does more than just count the number of coercion complaints; it often uses them as the basis for motor carrier audits and investigations, an increasing number of which are performed remotely.

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The U.S. Department of Transportation recently announced that the application process is now open for communities of all sizes to apply for $1 billion in funding to help ensure safe streets and roads and address the national roadway safety crisis, including reducing crashes involving commercial vehicles.

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The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration is creating a special task force to examine truck lease agreements. The group will look at lease and lease-purchase agreements among motor carriers, leasing companies, owner-operators, and drayage drivers. The Infrastructure Bill, passed in late 2021, granted FMCSA authority to create the Truck Leasing Task Force. The 10-member TLTF will examine many areas related to truck leasing arrangements.

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Vehicle inspections range from minor inconveniences to major disruptions, depending on the inspection type and what inspectors find, stressed Steve Vaughn, vice president of field operations for PrePass, during the webinar “Improve Inspector Relationships. Improve Truck Inspection Results.” The former enforcement officer with the California Highway Patrol and past president of the Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance gave insight into inspections from both sides of the desk. He advised fleets to take four steps to improve fleet safety scores and avoid inspections.

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Toll changes happen on the fly, but the actual bills often arrive weeks or months later. By then, most fleets lack a good way to reconcile toll data with dispatch data. As a result, fleets pay more for tolls than they should. Doing so can have a massive impact on the bottom line. Effectively managing truck toll costs requires combining data collected by your toll payment provider with data from your transportation management system.

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Listen to this new episode of the “Eyes on the Road” trucking podcast as we discuss the results of this study with Andrew Balthrop, research associate at the University of Arkansas. He talks with host Evan Lockridge about why some groups in trucking had more crashes after the ELD mandate took effect, how the devices greatly reduced one type of hours of service violation, and more.

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PrePass Safety Alliance is pleased to announce a new partnership with Pedigree Technologies that brings PrePass, North America’s leading preclearance program, to the OneView® platform. With this latest PrePass integration, fleets will experience increased driver satisfaction due to fewer inspection stops while enjoying an award-winning fleet management system, providing everything motor carriers need for a safe, compliant, and efficient operation.

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The special focus on Roadcheck in 2022 is wheel ends. So, what is so special about wheel ends? Wheel end components include the wheels, rims, hubs, and tires on a commercial motor vehicle. Historically, violations involving those components account for about one-quarter of the vehicle out-of-service violations discovered during International Roadcheck.

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The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration has filed a Advance Notice of Supplemental Proposed Rulemaking, also called a Notice of Intent. This signals that the agency will develop a Supplemental Notice of Proposed Rulemaking, by reopening the speed limiter rulemaking from September 2016. Public comments to the ANSPR are due by June 3, 2022. The FMCSA ANSPR seeks public comments on a series of questions intended to help the agency develop its SNPRM.

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The Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance has petitioned the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration for a second time to more clearly define the term “personal conveyance” in hours of service regulations. CVSA does not object to personal conveyance itself. However, it is asking FMCSA to add a maximum distance or time limit on the use of personal conveyance.

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