The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) has announced it will hold a listening session pertaining to the development of an updated methodology to determine when a motor carrier is not fit to operate a commercial motor vehicle. FMCSA would like to hear from the public on issues of concern relating to the current Safety Fitness Determination, including, for example, the three-tiered rating system (Satisfactory, Unsatisfactory, Conditional) versus changing to a proposed single rating only when a carrier is found to be Unfit; incorporating driver behavior into the ratings; and revising the list of safety violations used to calculate the rating; etc.

FMCSA has released the following notice regarding the listening sessions: https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2024-06-20/pdf/2024-13500.pdf.