The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) is looking for comments, suggestions, and creative ideas on new operational concepts that will improve commercial vehicle safety inspections, according to information published August 16 in the Federal Register. Suggestions must be submitted by Oct 17, 2005.
FMCSA wants information on new technology concepts that can help improve the efficiency, effectiveness, and long-term results of performance-based commercial vehicle safety inspections. Information collected will serve as one of many inputs into an exploratory research and technology project looking at various advanced inspection concepts for getting data from the vehicle to the roadside.
The project is not directly related to FMCSA's earlier proposed rule, Electronic On-Board Recorders for Hours-of-Service Compliance, published in 2004.