In mid-January 2019, FMCSA held a public briefing in Washington, part of which focused on the Agency’s preliminary testing of a small scale IRT model. You may recall that IRT was recommended by the National Academy of Sciences in…

Will FMCSA ‘stand up’ the long-awaited CDL Drug & Alcohol Clearinghouse in 2019, allowing the industry to meet the January 2020 compliance deadline? Or, will the Clearinghouse be delayed? It’s a fair question, and one I’ve received a few…

In early February 2019, FMCSA sent its ‘advance notice of proposed rulemaking’ document concerning the future of the DOT employment application to the White House’s Office of Management & Budget (OMB) for review. OMB review is one of the…

Since 2017, FMCSA has been funding a project to help develop and commercialize a “Trucking Fatigue Meter” (TFM). You can read more about the project and the TFM at https://www.fmcsa.dot.gov/safety/research-and-analysis/advanced-fatigue-modeling-individual-differences-phase-iii-sbir

Did you know the Scopelitis Law Firm, and its affiliated Scopelitis Transportation Consulting (STC) subsidiary, has an office in the heart of our nation’s capital and is well-suited to help companies with creative solutions to DC-oriented problems? STC helps…