FMCSA Moves to Extend Check-In Rules for Hazmat Permit Carriers
Safety · Oct 31 · By Truker
FMCSA is preparing to ask the Office of Management and Budget to approve continuing a paperwork requirement for carriers that hold hazmat safety permits. Those companies must set up a way to follow their loads while en route, and nobody commented when the agency first sought public input.
The points
- 1Carriers with hazmat safety permits must create a communications plan that lets them monitor shipments at intervals during transit.
- 2Each check-in should be documented with the time of contact and where the load was at that moment.
- 3Either the driver, such as in a logbook, or the carrier itself can maintain these entries.
- 4Documentation, in paper or digital form, must be retained for no less than six months and kept at the carrier's main office or be accessible to staff there.
- 5The earlier 60-day public comment window in the Federal Register drew no responses.
Why it matters
The planned renewal means permit-holding hazmat carriers would stay bound by existing shipment-tracking and six-month recordkeeping obligations.
What we read
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