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The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) is an agency in the United States Department of Transportation that regulates the trucking industry in the United States. The primary mission of the FMCSA is to reduce crashes, injuries, and fatalities involving large trucks and buses.
A Louisiana Highway Department gravel truck driver pauses in front of his orange-colored vehicle (1972). The new Louisiana Constitution of 1976 (adopted in 1974) and Act 83 of 1977 abolished the Departments of Highways and Public Works and restructured them into the Department of Transportation and Development (DOTD), thereby encompassing related activities such as highways, public works ...
List of FMCSA standards for motor vehicles Archived 2013-03-28 at the Wayback Machine "Timeline of Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards by Year and Notable Technologies" (PDF). National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. 2012. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2021-06-24
Louisiana Gov.-elect Jeff Landry has appointed Dan Casey to serve as commissioner of the Office of Motor Vehicles, promising to elevate customer service at the state agency that perhaps produces ...
The audit activity and the resultant motor carrier safety rating has been criticized for being imperfect, and perhaps misleading. Studies [2] [3] have shown that for a considerable number of audit items, correlation coefficients between audit item outcome and actual safety performance have counter-intuitive signs: the better the compliance rating of firms, the worse their accident rates.
The U.S. state of Louisiana first required its residents to register their motor vehicles and display license plates in 1915. [1] As of 2024, plates are issued by the Public Safety Services division of the Louisiana Department of Public Safety & Corrections, through the division's Office of Motor Vehicles.
The agency has asserted preemptive regulatory authority over greenhouse gas emissions, but this has been disputed by such state regulatory agencies as the California Air Resources Board. [citation needed] The Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards are contained in the United States 49 CFR 571. Additional federal vehicle standards are contained ...
CVSA has four membership types: state/provincial, local agencies, associate and federal, referenced by class types. [10] Class I Members are state/provincial agencies represented by various departments of transportation, public utility and service commissions, state police, highway patrols, departments of motor vehicles and ministries of transport.