NEWS & ANNOUNCEMENTS

The United States Department of Transportation (USDOT), Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) hereby declares that an emergency exists that warrants issuance of a Regional Emergency Declaration and provide emergency regulatory relief from certain requirements in Part 395 of the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Regulations (FMCSRs). This Emergency Declaration is issued in response to severe winter storms and cold temperatures substantially below normal in the Affecte

The preamble of FMCSA's 2011 final HOS rule ( 76 FR 81134 ) stated that FMCSA is committed to an analysis of the relative crash risk by driving hour, the impact of the changes in the HOS provisions, and examination of differences in crash risk after restarts that include 2 nights and those that do not. The HOS final rule also said that FMCSA would work with the OMB on the methodologies of these new statistical data collections. FMCSA needs additional data to answer important