More than three years after launching a rulemaking to increase minimum insurance requirements for trucking, the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration is dropping the effort because it says it ...

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration announced today, June 22, that it is eliminating the requirement for most for-hire motor common carriers of property and freight forwarders to maintain ...

WASHINGTON — The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration has warned Congress that a massive “insurance gap” is leaving the American trucking industry more vulnerable than ever. In its 2026 ...

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration is slated Monday to officially withdraw a rulemaking intended to explore the pros and cons of increasing liability insurance minimums for motor carriers ...

Owner-operators and the lobbying group that represents them say they fail to see the need for an increase to the minimum amount of liability insurance required of carriers and they’re afraid an ...

ARLINGTON, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--National Online Registries, Inc. (NOR) announces several enhancements to its Motor Carrier Information Exchange (MCInfo) application designed to reduce errors and ...

This story appears in the March 7 print edition of Transport Topics. The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration said it no longer will be necessary after March 21 for freight forwarders and ...

Tick-tock. The clock is running out for truckers who want to comment on a proposal to increase insurance minimums for carriers. The deadline for submissions is Thursday. The Federal Motor Carrier ...

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Is the current amount of “financial responsibility” — liability insurance, essentially — for carriers too low? That’s a question the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration has been grappling with ...

WASHINGTON, Dec. 1-- Robert Passmore, vice president for auto and claims policy at the American Property Casualty Insurance Association, has issued a public comment on the Federal Motor Carrier Safety ...