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INDOR's New Motor Carrier Services Web Site - Wednesday, February 17, 2010

The Indiana Department of Revenue’s Motor Carrier Services division launched a brand new Motor Carrier Services Web site with major changes to serve the whole range of Motor Carrier Services customers. The new Web site will include a new online services (IRP and OSW) homepage to better serve you, as well as easier navigation based on your specific needs – whether you’re a new user or a returning user.

Please be sure to update your bookmarks and keep an eye out for the new subscription center coming soon. When you subscribe to this convenient new tool, you will receive an automatic e-mail anytime the Motor Carrier Services Web site is updated with important information.

Motor Carrier Services encourages you to visit the new Web site at www.in.gov/dor/4106.htm and be one of the first to take it for a test drive.

FMCSA to Ban Texting by CMV Drivers - Tuesday, January 26, 2010

This morning (January 26), U.S. DOT Secretary Ray LaHood and FMCSA Administrator Anne Ferro will hold a press conference in Washington, D.C., to announce a new ban on texting by commercial motor vehicle drivers while operating a CMV. During the press conference scheduled for 10:30 am EST, Secretary LaHood and Administrator Ferro will discuss new “regulatory guidance,” to be officially published in the Federal Register and made effective later this week, that will apply to all interstate drivers of CMVs currently subject to FMCSA’s safety regulations. ATA President and CEO Bill Graves will participate in today’s press event and will make short remarks supporting DOT’s announcement. Although the current safety regulations do not include an explicit prohibition against texting while driving by professional truck and bus drivers, FMCSA believes that an existing general restriction against the use of additional equipment and accessories that decrease the safety of operation of commercial motor vehicles applies to the use of electronic devices for texting. This general restriction is found in 49 CFR Part 390. FMCSA’s regulatory guidance will further explain that handheld or other wireless electronic devices that are brought into a CMV are considered additional equipment and accessories within the context of Part 390(emphasis added). FMCSA will define texting as the review of, or preparation and transmission of, typed messages though any such device or the engagement in any form of electronic data retrieval or electronic data communication through any such device.FMCSA will state that it acknowledges the concerns of motor carriers that have invested significant resources in electronic dispatching tools and fleet management systems and clearly states that the Agency’s new guidance should not be construed to prohibit the use of such technology. FMCSA will further state that its new regulatory guidance should also not be construed to prohibit the use of cell phones for purposes other than text messaging.

IRP LATE PAYMENT PENALTY! - Thursday, December 03, 2009

IMPORTANT REMINDER:

• A 10 percent past due payment penalty will apply to any IRP Renewal paid after the payment due date.

• The 10 percent penalty applies to the Indiana renewal fees.

• To avoid the past due payment penalty you can:

- Mail in your payment to the One Stop-Shop, 5252 Decatur Blvd., Suite R, Indianapolis, IN 46241 (must be post-marked on or before the due date).

- Click here to pay online

- Click here for IRP Handbook

Contract for new I-70 Welcome Center; Existing one to close Dec.1 - Friday, November 20, 2009

The Indiana Department of Transportation (INDOT) announces it has advertised a contract to build a modernized new Welcome Center greeting motorists entering Indiana on I-70. INDOT plans to close the I-70 westbound Rest Area near mile marker 144 on or after December 1 to prepare for demolition.

The new I-70 westbound Welcome Center will provide additional space for information, vending and improved restroom facilities. Truck parking will be dramatically expanded, increasing the number of spaces from 24 to more than 150.

Indiana BMV Announces HazMat Fingerprinting Changes - Friday, July 24, 2009

Effective August 17, 2009, the Hazmat applications and fingerprinting for the state of Indiana are being coordinated by L1 Enrollment Services, an agent of TSA...