General
This agency is responsible for regulating and overseeing the safety of commercial motor vehicles in the United States
What is the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration?
These regulations are under Title 49, Chapter III, of the Code of Federal Regulations.
What are the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Regulations (FMCSR)?
This system was originally on a mainframe and has been the authoritative source of all FMCSA data.
What is the Motor Carrier Management Information System?
This is the alignment of CTO's divisions with FMCSA's lines of business.
What are pillars?
This credential is required to drive a large truck or bus over 26,000 LBS GVWR.
What is a Commercial Driver's License?
Public Law 106-159 directed this entity to create the FMCSA in 1999.
Who is the Secretary of Transportation?
These regulations govern the working hours of commercial drivers to ensure drivers get adequate rest to prevent fatigue-related accidents.
What are Hours of Service (HOS) regulations?
This system provides connections between the US States, Canada, and Mexico to verify driver credentials
What is the Commercial Driver License Information System?
This commercial system is used to track information about FMCSA systems, including architecture, inventory, and release plans
What is Confluence?
This measurement cannot exceed 0.04% for CMV drivers in the United States.
What is blood alcohol concentration?
This federal agency was responsible for motor carrier safety prior to the creation of the FMCSA.
What is the Federal Highway Administration?
This part of the FMCSR covers the Parts and Accessories necessary for safe operation of a CMV.
What is Part 393?
This system provides a directory of medical professionals authorized to perform physical examinations on CMV drivers.
What is the National Registry of Certified Medical Examiners?
This is work divided in to time-boxed efforts used in agile development.
What is a sprint?
This process examines a motor carrier's adherence to regulations and safety performance.
What is a Compliance Review?
What is a Comprehensive Investigation?
This federal agency was responsible for economic regulations until "sunsetted".
What was the Interstate Commerce Commission?
This order requires a mandatory, government-wide standard for secure and reliable forms of identification for federal employees and contractors such as smart cards, for access to federal facilities and information systems.
What is HSPD-12?
This system brought online in September 2017 attempted to consolidate multiple processes for motor carriers, brokers, freight forwarders, into a single, streamlined online platform.
What is the Unified Registration System?
This effort will replace outdated, complicated, poorly designed systems with state of the art, easily maintained systems.
What is modernization?
This program is designed to improve safety on the roads by holding motor carriers and drivers accountable for their safety performance through a data-driven system.
What is the Compliance, Safety, Accountability (CSA) program?
This federal agency, in conjunction with the FMCSA, regulates the transportation of hazardous materials by commercial motor vehicles.
What is the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration?
This must be displayed on the sides of CMVs operating in interstate commerce according to ยง390.21
What is a USDOT number?
What is the Motor Carrier's operating name?
This system provides public access to FMCSA safety data, including carrier safety ratings, inspection reports, and crash data and is often mistaken as an authoritative source.
What is SAFER?
This employee of the Office of the CTO has been working for FMCSA before there was an FMCSA.
Who is Joel Hiatt?
Who is Pam Gosier-Abner?
These include brake system defects, tire defects, unsecured cargo, and disqualified drivers.
What are Out of Service (OOS) violations?