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The Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance’s (CVSA) announced that their annual 72-hour International Roadcheck will take place this year June 7-9, 2011. Truck and bus safety inspectors will be on the job night and day checking vehicles and their drivers at inspection sites along major highways across North America. In addition, roving patrols will inspect vehicles [...]

FMCSA Press Release 10-11, Friday, April 29, 2011 Three household goods moving companies are facing civil penalty fines of $25,000 each as a result of a Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) enforcement sweep which took place in nine major U.S. cities from March 14-18, 2011. The companies are Guardian Moving & Storage of Los [...]

On January, 21, 2011, the Surface Transportation Board (STB) issued a long-awaited Decision in Released Rates Order, Amendment No. 5 to MC-999 that makes a number of changes in the way that shipment valuation will apply for the transportation of household goods in interstate commerce. The STB is a bipartisan, decisionally-independent adjudicatory body housed within [...]

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) recently amended its regulations under 49 CFR 387.307(a)(2) to require move brokers that arrange the transportation of household goods in interstate or foreign commerce for consumers to comply with certain new consumer protection requirements.     Under their current guidelines, move brokers must provide: Their U.S. DOT number on [...]

  WASHINGTON – Monday, August 30, 2010 – The U.S. Department of Transportation's Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration today announced $281,000 in fines against Moving Van Lines, Inc. of Tampa, Florida (MC# 553076) for violating multiple federal regulations including holding consumers' property hostage and requiring moving fees in excess of the original binding contractual agreement. [...]

  Moved the kid back to college last week. We stopped at a rest area half way home. As I finished my business, a voice behind me asked how long I was planning to stand at the wall. I turned to see the familiar face of a household goods van operator I'd worked with years [...]

The American Moving and Storage Association (AMSA) just issued a notice to their members that the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) is now conducting its annual peak moving season audit sweep of moving companies operating both of legally and illegally throughout the U.S! According to Dave Hauenstein, AMSA's Vice President of Compliance Services, many [...]

  On February 24, 2010, the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration opened a pre-employment screening program (PSP) where motor carriers can access to a driver's crash and inspection history from the electronic records at FMCSA Motor Carrier Management Information System (MCMIS) to allow them to make more informed hiring decisions. Driver Information Resource records purchased [...]

  The following remarks were delivered by Anne A. Ferro, the newly appointed Administrator for the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) on February 24, 2010 before the American Moving and Storage Association's Annual Education Conference and Expo recently held in Phoenix. On November 5, 2009, Ms. Ferro was approved as the administrator of the [...]

  The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) will be holding two public webinars on December 3 and 10, 2009 to discuss the agency’s Comprehensive Safety Analysis 2010 (CSA 2010) initiative. Don’t know what CSA2010 is? Check out the FMCSA’s website at http://csa2010.fmcsa.dot.gov/. The content is fresh and updated regularly.  Some of the features include: [...]