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    <pubDate>Fri, Mar 19 2010 11:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[  Elimination of Route Designation Requirement for Motor Carriers  Transporting Passengers Over Regular Routes]]></title>
  <link>http://thefederalregister.com/d.p/2009-01-16-E9-363</link>
  <description><![CDATA[ FMCSA discontinues the administrative requirement that 
applicants seeking forhire authority to transport passengers over 
regular routes submit a detailed description and a map of the route(s) 
over which they propose to operate. The Agency will register such 
carriers as regularroute carriers without requiring the designation of 
specific regular routes and fixed endpoints. Once motor carriers have 
obtained regularroute, forhire operating authority from FMCSA, they 
will no longer need to seek additional FMCSA approval in order to 
change or add routes. Each registered regularroute motor carrier of 
passengers will continue to be subject to the full safety oversight and 
enforcement programs of FMCSA and its State and local partners.
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  <pubDate>Fri, Jan 16 2009 11:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[  Commercial Driver's License Standards: Application for Exemption;  Volvo Trucks North America (Volvo)]]></title>
  <link>http://thefederalregister.com/d.p/2009-01-16-E9-850</link>
  <description><![CDATA[ FMCSA announces that Volvo Trucks North America (Volvo) has 
applied for an exemption from the Federal requirement for a driver of 
commercial motor vehicles (CMVs) to hold a commercial driver's license 
(CDL). Volvo requests that the exemption cover one Swedish field test 
engineer who will testdrive CMVs for Volvo within the United States. 
This Volvo employee holds a valid Swedish CDL. Volvo states the 
exemption is needed to support a Volvo field test to meet future clean 
air standards, to testdrive Volvo prototype vehicles to verify results 
in ``real world'' environments, and to deliver the vehicles if 
necessary in the United States. Volvo believes the knowledge and skills 
tests and training program that Swedish drivers undergo to obtain a 
Swedish CDL ensures the exemption would provide a level of safety that 
is equivalent to, or greater than, the level of safety obtained by 
complying with the U.S. requirements for a CDL.
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