FMCSA
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FMCSA
- (transport) Initialism of Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, a government regulatory agency in the United States.
- 2014, Mark Evan Garrett, editor, Encyclopedia of Transportation: Social Science and Policy, →ISBN, page 567:
- The Border and International Safety Program is part of FMCSA’s work in developing uniform standards or at least compatible motor carrier safety requirements and procedures throughout North America. It works with the governments of Canada and Mexico to ensure that Mexican and Canadian drivers of commercial motor vehicles in the United States meet the same safety standards as do American drivers.
- 2020 January 23, Rachel Premack, “Worked 'like a rented mule': A truck driver claims an Amazon contractor forced him to drive for up to 30 hours straight in a new lawsuit”, in Business Insider[1]:
- Under the FMCSA regulations, truck drivers may be on duty for a maximum of 14 hours in a day, with a maximum of 11 hours spent driving. Trucks are equipped with an electronic logging device that indicates when a driver needs to go on their rest break, sending notifications to the driver and their employer.