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Behind-the-Wheel Training Programs Get Financial Boost

Crowder College, Neosho, Missouri is one of seven community and technical colleges and two state government training facilities received a share of $1 million in Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration grants to enhance behind-the-wheel safety training courses for students enrolled in commercial driver’s license (CDL) training programs, U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood announced on July 26th.

In November, FMCSA Will Begin Issuing CSA 2010 Warning Letters to Deficient Carriers…
ATA Business Solutions Can Help Your Company Successfully Meet CSA 2010 Requirements

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) is looking at safety and how it will evaluate a carrier’s safety fitness in an entirely new way. Though the Comprehensive Safety Analysis 2010 (CSA 2010) is still in the testing stage, all signs indicate it will begin rolling out nationwide in November 2010. CSA 2010 will assess each carrier’s safety performance in seven Behavior Analysis and Safety Improvement Categories (BASICs).

ATA offers safety products that can help you better understand and manage your company’s approach to each CSA 2010 BASIC. This email focused on solutions to BASIC #1 Unsafe Driving:

FMCSA Proposes to Extend HOS Waiver for Anhydrous Ammonia

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) today announced that the agency is proposing a two-year, limited exemption from the federal hours-of-service (HOS) regulations for the transportation of anhydrous ammonia from any distribution point to a local farm retailer or to the ultimate consumer, and from a local farm retailer to the ultimate consumer, as long as the transportation takes place within a 100 air-mile radius of the retail or wholesale distribution point.

Thank your drivers
for a job well done!

During National Truck Driver Appreciation Week (September 19-25), America honors

drivers for their hard work and commitment in tackling one of the country's most

demanding and essential jobs. Driver gifts are affordable, available right now and can

be customized with your company logo.

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of 2010 Driver Gifts.

UCR Update

The 2010 Unified Carrier Registration initial filing period is drawing to a close.

MoDOT will not guarantee that applications made after July1 can be processed by July 15, 2010, the nationwide UCR enforcement date.

While MoDOT cannot predict the cost of a citation in any given county or state, we have heard that in many cases, the cost of citations received by some carriers EXCEED the cost of UCR registration fees.

Log into MoDOT Carrier Express to file online - www.modot.org/mce information about the 2010 UCR program at www.modot.org/mcs. Choose Program then UCR.

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MoDOT Offers Free Overweight Permits to Move Grain
Floods Threaten Crops in Storage

JEFFERSON CITY – Farmers and producers in some areas of Missouri are between a river and a hard place. They have grain stored in areas threatened by rising floodwaters and possible levee breach.