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Repeated violations can result in fines from $1,000 to $11,000 and a downgrade in the motor carrier's safety rating. [26] Long-haul drivers are normally paid by the mile, not by the hour. [27] Legally, truck drivers are not required to receive overtime pay for hours worked in excess of the standard 40-hour work week. [28]
In the past two years, the firm was cited with 12 “driver fitness violations” — including three instances where driver’s did not have proper or valid commercial driver’s licenses.
The driver, who authorities said only suffered minor injuries, was leaning down to find something when he slammed into the back of the much larger log truck, Whitfield County Fire Chief Edward O ...
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.
A log truck overturned in Gloucester County Thursday afternoon in the area of Lewis B. Puller Memorial Highway.
The purpose of out-of-service criteria is to define a set of physical conditions under which a commercial motor vehicle ("CMV") or commercial driver may be placed out of service. The Secretary of Transportation ’s statutory authority for issuing out-of-service orders is predicated upon a finding that a regulatory violation poses an imminent ...
Motor carriers shall carefully examine Forms MCS 63 and all violations or mechanical defects noted thereon shall be corrected. To the extent drivers are shown not to be in compliance with the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Regulations, appropriate corrective action shall be taken by the motor carrier.
Truck drivers who support former president Donald Trump have voiced that they won’t be driving to New York City to underscore their disappointment with the civil fraud judgment that fined Mr ...