The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration announced in a Federal Register notice published April 15 that truck drivers hauling certain agricultural commodities can now use alternate methods for ...

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration recently issued a Technical Review of cargo securement practices for square bales of hay and straw. Based on previous testing, FMCSA concluded that ...

For many years prior to the final exemption approval, the California Highway Patrol was granting one-year exemptions to California ag haulers to allow the newer tie-down methods. The alternative cargo ...

Click here to write a Letter to the Editor. he Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration has proposed revising its rules that govern how cargo is secured on flatbed trailers. The regulations, which ...

The failure to properly prevent shifting loads, spilled or dropped cargo due to improper load securement, or cargo retention has comprised as many as 82% of the violations under the Cargo-Related ...

Delta, Ohio-based K&L Trucking is petitioning the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration to expand an existing exemption that allows the company to use an alternative steel coil securement method ...

Cargo securement issues accounted for 12.2% of out of service (OOS) violations during last year’s Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance International Roadcheck, the No. 4 violation on the list preceded ...

The new standards for cargo securement have been in place since December 2002, and the clock is running out on a Jan. 1 deadline for compliance. The effort to impose stricter rules goes back to 1993, ...

According to U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) statistics, commercial motor vehicles transport an estimated 11 billion tons of cargo annually, which is approximately 71 percent of the nation’s ...