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Trucking fines, it?s all about safety!

Big Sky Redneck
A final rule that published in the Federal Register today, Nov. 27, makes the new fine amounts effective immediately. The 2015 Act required FMCSA and other DOT agencies to issue an initial ?catch-up? adjustment, followed by annual adjustments for inflation.

The DOT, in order to find the 2018 adjustment amount, had to multiply the penalty amount by the percentage change between the October 2017 Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U) and the October 2016 CPI-U, which this year was 1.02041. Given this multiplier, all of the fine amounts increased, as seen below:

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  • Sam06
    Those are some hefty fines, like put you out of business fines.
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  • remingtonoaks
    I guess the truck drivers that that think they are above the laws will learn quick now. Won't they?
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  • grumpygy
    You would think that with the shortage of truck and drivers they would not try to put more out of business.
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  • Arby
    Hefty fines might just take some Junkers off the road...
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  • pip5255
    just another way for the government to collect revenues
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  • Don McManus
    I fail to see how fines should be indexed for inflation.

    There is no logical relationship between the two.

    Idiocy in government at its worst.
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  • Knifecollector
    $160,000 for a tariff violation. I'd say that's fairly strong deterrent.[:)]
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  • He Dog
    Remember the first rule of trucking: Oops I mean the second rule of trucking: Don't get caught.

    First rule is Avoid Swift.
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  • austin20
    quote:Originally posted by Knifecollector
    $160,000 for a tariff violation. I'd say that's fairly strong deterrent.[:)]
    i was thinking the same
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