Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration Finally Adopts Rules on Maintaining Intermodal Equipment
By Kenneth E. Siegel
Fifteen years after the motor carrier industry first asked the Federal Highway Administration to adopt rules which would require intermodal equipment providers (“IEP”) to maintain chassis and other intermodal equipment (“IME”) in a condition suitable for use on the highways, and several years after being directed to adopt such “Roadability” rules by Congress,1 the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (“FMCSA”)...
