Small Business in Transportation Coalition

10/11/2026

https://lnkd.in/p/eTe2arUR

FMCSA Deputy Administrator Jesse Elison to Keynote in Chattanooga Jesse Elison, Deputy Administrator of the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA), will join the Brokerage Compliance Symposium as a keynote speaker. With two decades of legal experience in FMCSA compliance, Elison brings....

10/09/2026

https://x.com/TheSBTC/status/2108703176555712688

10/09/2026

This just in...

Until new regulations are live, industry participants must independently verify entities and individuals while carefully protecting sensitive personal data.

10/09/2026

SBTC Seeks Extension of Comment Period

Sent: Friday, October 9, 2026 at 5:25 PM
From: "James Lamb"
To: [email protected]
CC: [email protected],[email protected],[email protected]

Subject: Request to Extend Comment Period (Docket ID FMCSA-2026-0826)

Re:
English Language Proficiency; Out of Service Criteria
Docket ID

FMCSA-2026-0826


SBTC just filed this request:

Administrator Barrs,

SBTC is today requesting that this comment period please be extended for two weeks (or if need be, reopened) due to the fact that so many carriers have been adversely affected by the FMCSA's ongoing MOTUS technical difficulties, which includes MOTUS outages and call center closures.

Organizations like ours have been overwhelmed by requests for assistance and may not have been able to effect a timely filing by today.

Comment Tracking Number

mv1-gyox-ilry

Thank you for your consideration.

Regards,

/s/ JAMES LAMB, Executive Director
Small Business in Transportation Coalition, Inc. ("SBTC")
aka Truckers.com
www.smalltransportation.org
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10/09/2026

HURRICANE ALERT!

Hurricane Isaias is growing stronger, bringing a dangerous storm surge to the Gulf Coast. With landfall expected Friday night, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis urged people to evacuate if needed.

10/09/2026

The SBTC just asked who leads the House Trucking Caucus in Congress to hold hearings on this MOTUS Fiasco and bring in to testify before the T&I Committee to account for this mess.

We really appreciate the personal efforts of and his team including Ken Riddle to fix these errors one-by-one but the agency needs to employ an administrative expungement procedure to prevent further pain caused by reinstatements to reverse these MOTUS errors that are held against affected carriers by Big brokers, and carrier "fraud prevention platforms" like and Highway.com.

Our broker accountability bill would address some of this.

https://lnkd.in/eCTEB8Dz.

See:

"(17) Property brokers have recently engaged in the unreasonable and discriminatory practice of refusing to engage the services of new entrant motor carriers despite the fact they have lawful operating authority solely on the basis that their authority is new or has been recently reinstated after a short insurance lapse as if they were new. It is the sense of Congress that this practice constitutes unreasonable restraint of trade."

https://lnkd.in/evS7V_Kz

10/05/2026

SBTC Files Comments on ELP OOS Rulemaking

Click Here to Read SBTC's Comments on ELP OOS Rulemaking..

10/05/2026

will announce in the Federal Register tomorrow a "Pilot Program to Allow Commercial Drivers to Pause Their 14-Hour Driving Window." For a sneak peek, join the SBTC LinkedIn group:

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10/04/2026

Ok, folks... time to open fire on over . The SNPRM is coming... Here is the best argument people should put in their comments. And they should cite Craig Fuller's post about how brokers are "principal(s)" with "price risk!" That says it all.

10/04/2026

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/uzbek-truck-driver-fatal-crash-exposed-troubling-fraud-trend-middle-america-chameleon-carriers

Uzbek-linked trucking companies in southwest Ohio face scrutiny over CDL fraud, English proficiency violations and fatal semi-truck crashes on U.S. roads.