The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) today published a notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) on changes to hours of service (HOS) rules to increase safety on America’s roa...
ARLINGTON, VA - Today, the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) granted the National Tank Truck Carriers’ (NTTC) petition and preempted California’s meal and rest break laws as applied to hazardous m...
Hours of Service In the last week, NTTC made two filings with the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration. On August 23, 2018 FMCSA published an advance notice of proposed rulemaking (ANPRM) in the Federal Register...
Yesterday, U.S. District Court Judge Leonie Brinkema issued a stay in the ILTA v. DHS lawsuit that will delay the requirements that most port facilities install electronic TWIC readers indefinitely. The ...
Yesterday, NTTC filed an amicus brief in International Liquid Terminal Association v. DHS. The ILTA, the American Chemistry Council, and the Fertilizer Institute are suing the ...
Your staff recently received an increased number of questions about transportation of IM and UN tank containers. We understand that some of this increased activity is in response to tank container displacement on the East Coast from Hurr...
Many tank truck carriers have expressed concerns about the impact of 34-hour restart provisions of the Hours of Service rules set to go into effect next July. The American Transportation Research Institute (ATRI) has initiated research t...
NTTC called on the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) to support our petition to PHMSA to require all applicants for a Hazardous Materials registration number to also supply a USDOT number in our recommendations for impr...