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LAW CREATES NEW MOTOR CARRIER AGENCY IN DOT

A Karr

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A December 1999 law creates a new Motor Carrier Safety Administration within the Department of Transportation (DOT), culminating nearly 2 years of attempts to improve the department's performance on truck and bus safety. The law doubles the number of state truck inspectors, increases truck inspections at borders, and boosts funds for the new agency's oversight and enforcement from $354 million to $774 million over 3 years. It also modifies the commercial-driver licensing program, helps regulators ensure the safety fitness of new motor carriers, and gives the DOT new ways to determine why truck and bus crashes happen.

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A December 1999 law creates a new Motor Carrier Safety Administration within the Department of Transportation (DOT), culminating nearly 2 years of attempts to improve the department's performance on truck and bus safety. The law doubles the number of state truck inspectors, increases truck inspections at borders, and boosts funds for the new agency's oversight and enforcement from $354 million to $774 million over 3 years. It also modifies the commercial-driver licensing program, helps regulators ensure the safety fitness of new motor carriers, and gives the DOT new ways to determine why truck and bus crashes happen.

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A December 1999 law creates a new Motor Carrier Safety Administration within the Department of Transportation (DOT), culminating nearly 2 years of attempts to improve the department's performance on truck and bus safety. The law doubles the number of state truck inspectors, increases truck inspections at borders, and boosts funds for the new agency's oversight and enforcement from $354 million to $774 million over 3 years. It also modifies the commercial-driver licensing program, helps regulators ensure the safety fitness of new motor carriers, and gives the DOT new ways to determine why truck and bus crashes happen.

Key concepts: Truck, Agency (philosophy), Law enforcement, Enforcement, Motor carrier, Engineering, Transport engineering, Business

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