To most Americans, the word “audit” conjures up a visceral fear of the IRS combing through their records and finances. However, to those in the motor carrier industry, “audit” means something much ...

A Department of Transportation (“DOT”) audit [1] is something that all motor carriers dread. The potential for a Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (“FMCSA”) investigator can often have ...

“Our audit objectives are to evaluate FMCSA’s procedures for: (1) oversight of its medical certificate program, including commercial driver medical certificate data quality, and (2) validating ...

It’s no secret to anyone in trucking that highway transportation is one of the heaviest regulated industries in the U.S. The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration is the federal agency charged ...

Although not much in the news of late, the ongoing Congressionally mandated process to improve the federal Compliance, Safety, Accountability safety-compliance regime for commercial vehicles was ...

The Department of Transportation’s Office of the Inspector General has issued its report on the scope and methodology used in the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration’s April 2006 review of ...

[Stay on top of transportation news: Get TTNews in your inbox.] A Department of Transportation Inspector General audit has found weaknesses in federal regulators’ monitoring of medical examiner ...

While not new, many carriers may have been surprised this year when the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) knocked on their digital doors to conduct off-site audits. The off-site ...

Spurred by a wake of criminal charges against medical examiners who have fraudulently issued DOT medical certificates to truck operators, the U.S. DOT’s Office of Inspector General announced Wednesday ...

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration’s punch list for how it intends to reform the Compliance, Safety, Accountability (CSA) program is now under an internal audit by the U.S. DOT, as ...

The Office of Inspector General (OIG) at the Department of Transportation (DOT) contracted with CliftonLarsonAllen LLP (CLA), an independent public accounting firm, to conduct an audit to determine ...

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration has made progress in its oversight of carrier safety but needs to be more harsh on carriers with repeat safety violations, an audit has concluded. The U ...