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# Exemptions 

## FMCSA Part 381 Exemptions in Effect

 

An exemption provides temporary relief from one or more FMCSRs to a person subject to the regulations or to a person who intends to engage in an activity that would be subject to the regulations.  A person or class of persons may apply for an exemption if one or more of the FMCSRs prevents them from implementing more efficient or effective operations that would maintain a level of safety equivalent to, or greater than the level, achieved without the exemption.  FMCSA is required by statute to request public comment prior to granting an exemption.  After considering the public comments, FMCSA must determine that the terms and conditions of the exemption would likely achieve a level of safety equivalent to that provided by the regulations from which the entity would be exempted.  

An exemption provides the person or class of persons with relief from the regulations for up to 5 years and may be renewed.  Exemptions may be granted only from one or more requirements in 49 CFR parts 382, 383, 391, 392, 393, 395, 396 (except for section 396.25), and 399.  The name of the person or class of persons who will receive the exemption, the specific regulations from which the person(s) will be exempted, the time period, and all terms and conditions of the exemption are published in the Federal Register. 

**Part 380 – Special Training Requirements**

**Filing Organization: ** Oak Harbor Freight Lines, Inc. **Regulation: ** 380.605 **Applies To: ** Jeff McLaughlin**Exemption: ** The Exemption allows instructor McLaughlin to provide Entry-Level Driver Training theory instruction for the H endorsement curriculum in Appendix E of Part 380 and excuses him from the requirement to possess a Commercial Driver’s License.**Date Appl. Published Fed Reg: ** 9/8/21**Effective Date: ** 5/19/22**Expiration Date: ** 5/19/27**Docket Number: ** FMCSA-2021-0140**Possession Required: ** No

**Filing Organization: **Railsback HazMat Safety Professionals, LLC (Railsback HMSP)**Regulation: ** 380.605**Applies To: ** Rex Railsback**Exemption: ** The Exemption allows instructor Railsback through Railsback HMSP to provide Entry-Level Driver Training theory instruction for the H endorsement curriculum in Appendix E of Part 380and excuses him from the requirement to possess a Commercial Driver License.**Date Appl. Published Fed Reg: ** 7/8/22**Effective Date: ** 1/12/23**Expiration Date: ** 1/12/28**Docket Number: ** FMCSA-2022-0135**Possession Required: ** No

**Part 382 - Controlled Substances and Alcohol Use and Testing**

**Filing Organization: **Daimler Trucks North America**Regulation: ** 382 subpart G and 383.23**Applies To: **Drivers Sascha Kugel, Wilhelm Guggolz, Dominik Cammerer, Carsten Schewe, Steffen Keppeler, Michael Kircher, Jochen Hans Horwath, Lars Nock, and Jorg Wolfgang Spielvogel**Exemption: **  Exemption allows these drivers to operate a commercial motor vehicle in the U.S. without a U.S. Commercial Driver’s License and excludes them from the Clearinghouse requirements in subpart G.**Date Appl. Published Fed Reg: **12/9/20**Effective Date: ** 4/27/22**Expiration Date: ** 4/27/27**Docket Number: ** FMCSA-2012-0032**Possession Required: ** Yes

**Filing Organization: **Daimler Trucks North America**Regulation: **Part 382 and 383.23**Applies To: ** Driver Gesa Reimelt**Exemption: **  Exemption allows this driver to operate a commercial motor vehicle in the U.S. without a U.S. Commercial Driver’s License and excludes them from the Clearinghouse requirements in subpart G.**Date Appl. Published Fed Reg: ** 8/19/21**Effective Date: ** 4/27/22**Expiration Date: ** 4/27/27**Docket Number: ** FMCSA-2012-0032**Possession Required: ** Yes

**Filing Organization: **Motion Pictures Compliance Solutions (MPCS)**Regulation: ** 382.701(a)(2)**Applies To: ** All MPCS Commercial Motor Vehicle drivers**Exemption: ** Exempts MPCS CMV drivers from the Clearinghouse requirement for pre-employment full queries. MPCS, on behalf of its member employers, would conduct the full query only in those instances in which the limited query indicates information about the driver exists in the Clearinghouse.**Date Appl. Published Fed Reg: ** 3/6/20**Effective Date: ** 6/1/20**Expiration Date: ** 5/28/25**Docket Number: ** FMCSA-2020-0101**Possession Required: ** No

**Part 383 - Commercial Driver’s License Standards**

**Filing Organization: **State of Alaska**Regulation: ** 383.3(e)(2)**Applies To: ** Alaska commercial driver’s license drivers that reside in one of the 14 defined areas**Exemption: ** Allows the state to waive specified portions of the commercial driver’s license skills test for drivers in 14 defined geographical areas that lack the infrastructure to allow completion of the full skills test.**Date Appl. Published Fed Reg: ** 7/6/22**Effective Date: ** 12/28/22**Expiration Date: ** 12/30/24**Docket Number: ** FMCSA-2022-0122**Possession Required: ** Yes

**Filing Organization: **Navistar, Inc.**Regulation: ** 383.23**Applies To: ** Driver Jerome Douay**Exemption: ** Exemption allows this driver to operate a commercial motor vehicle in the U.S. without a U.S. commercial driver’s license.**Date Appl. Published Fed Reg: ** 12/18/18**Effective Date: ** 4/15/19**Expiration Date: ** 4/15/24**Docket Number: ** FMCSA-2018-0347**Possession Required: ** Yes

**Filing Organization: **Navistar, Inc.**Regulation: ** 383.23**Applies To: ** Drivers Thomas Nickels and Lukas Walter**Exemption: ** Exemption allows these drivers to operate commercial motor vehicles in the U.S. without a U.S. commercial driver’s license.**Date Appl. Published Fed Reg: ** 6/19/19**Effective Date: ** 11/21/19**Expiration Date: ** 11/21/24**Docket Number: ** FMCSA-2018-0347**Possession Required: ** Yes

**Filing Organization: **Navistar, Inc.**Regulation: ** 383.23**Applies To: ** Drivers Jonas Hellstrom, Jonas Udd, Mikael Oun, Erik Holma, and Sofie Wisen Svanstrom**Exemption: **Exemption allows these drivers to operate commercial motor vehicles in the U.S. without a U.S. commercial driver’s license.**Date Appl. Published Fed Reg: ** 9/19/19**Effective Date: ** 12/27/19**Expiration Date: ** 12/27/24**Docket Number: ** FMCSA-2018-0347**Possession Required: ** Yes

**Organization: **Teupen North America**Regulation: ** 383.23**Applies To: ** Driver Martin Borutta**Exemption: ** Exemption allows this driver to operate a commercial motor vehicle in the U.S. without a U.S. commercial driver’s license.**Date Appl. Published Fed Reg: ** 10/24/19**Effective Date: ** 3/11/20**Expiration Date: ** 3/11/25**Docket Number: ** FMCSA-2019-0131**Possession Required: ** Yes

**Filing Organization: **U.S. Custom Harvesters, Inc.**Regulation: ** 383.23(a)(2) and 383.153(a)(10)(vii)**Applies To: ** U.S. Custom Harvester drivers**Exemption: ** Allows custom harvester drivers to operate in interstate commerce even though under 21 years of age. A “K” restriction on these drivers. Commercial driver licenses does not limit them from driving outside the license-issuing State when they are operating as custom harvesters in accordance with 49 CFR 391.2(a).**Date Appl. Published Fed Reg: ** 10/11/23**Effective Date: ** 10/3/23**Expiration Date: ** 10/3/25**Docket Number: ** FMCSA-2023-22442**Possession Required: ** Yes

**Filing Organization: **Daimler Trucks North America**Regulation: ** 383.23 and 382 subpart G**Applies To: ** Drivers Sascha Kugel, Wilhelm Guggolz, Dominik Cammerer, Carsten Schewe, Steffen Keppeler, Michael Kircher, Jochen Hans Horwath, Lars Nock, and Jorg Wolfgang Spielvogel**Exemption: ** Exemption allows these drivers to operate a commercial motor vehicle in the U.S. without a U.S. commercial driver’s license.**Date Appl. Published Fed Reg: ** 12/9/20**Effective Date: ** 4/27/22**Expiration Date: ** 4/27/27**Docket Number: ** FMCSA-2012-0032**Possession Required: ** Yes

**Filing Organization: **Daimler Trucks North America**Regulation: **  383.23 and 382 subpart G**Applies To: ** Driver Gesa Reimelt**Exemption: ** Exemption allows this driver to operate a commercial motor vehicle in the U.S. without a U.S. commercial driver’s license.**Date Appl. Published Fed Reg: ** 8/19/21**Effective Date: ** 4/27/22**Expiration Date: ** 4/27/27**Docket Number: ** FMCSA-2012-0032**Possession Required: ** Yes

**Filing Organization: **Navistar, Inc.**Regulation: ** 383.23**Applies To: ** Driver Anders Bjorkman**Exemption: ** Exemption allows this driver to operate a commercial motor vehicle in the U.S. without a U.S. commercial driver’s license.**Date Appl. Published Fed Reg: ** 4/7/22**Effective Date: ** 9/23/22**Expiration Date: ** 9/23/27**Docket Number: ** FMCSA-2018-0347**Possession Required: ** Yes

**Filing Organization: **Wilson Logistics**Regulation: ** 383.25(a)(1)**Applies To: ** Wilson Logistics Drivers **Exemption: ** Exemption allows commercial learner’s permit holders who have passed the Commercial Driver’s License (CDL) skills test but have not yet obtained the CDL document from their State of domicile to drive a commercial motor vehicle without having a CDL holder in the passenger seat.**Date Appl. Published Fed Reg: ** 11/6/19**Effective Date: ** 2/23/21**Expiration Date: ** 2/23/26**Docket Number: ** FMCSA-2019-0174**Possession Required: ** Yes

**Filing Organization: **Werner Enterprises**Regulation: ** 383.25(a)(1)**Applies To: ** Werner Enterprises Drivers**Exemption: ** Exemption allows commercial learner’s permit holders who have passed the Commercial Driver’s License (CDL) skills test but have not yet obtained the CDL document from their State of domicile to drive a commercial motor vehicle without having a CDL holder in the passenger seat.**Date Appl. Published Fed Reg: ** 8/18/21**Effective Date: ** 3/31/22**Expiration Date: ** 3/31/27**Docket Number: ** FMCSA-2021-0118**Possession Required: ** No

**Filing Organization: **CR England**Regulation: ** 383.25(a)(1)**Applies To: ** C.R. England Drivers**Exemption: ** Commercial learner’s permit holder may operate a commercial motor vehicle without a commercial driver’s license holder being present in the front seat of the vehicle.**Date Appl. Published Fed Reg: ** 6/16/22**Effective Date: ** 6/13/22**Expiration Date: ** 6/12/27**Docket Number: ** FMCSA-2014-0406**Possession Required: ** Yes

**Filing Organization: **New PRIME**Regulation: ** 383.25(a)(1)**Applies To: ** Commercial Learner’s Permit (CLP) holders, as team driver**Exemption: ** CLP holder may operate a commercial motor vehicle without a commercial driver’s license holder being present in the front seat of the vehicle.**Date Appl. Published Fed Reg: ** 6/28/22**Effective Date: ** 6/28/22**Expiration Date: ** 6/27/27**Docket Number: ** FMCSA-2016-0420**Possession Required: ** No

**Filing Organization: **CRST The Transportation Solution **Regulation: ** 383.25(a)(1)**Applies To: ** CRST Drivers**Exemption: ** Commercial learner’s permit holder may operate a commercial motor vehicle without a commercial driver’s license holder being present in the front seat of the vehicle.**Date Appl. Published Fed Reg: ** 8/7/23**Effective Date: ** 9/24/23**Expiration Date: ** 9/24/28**Docket Number: ** FMCSA-2015-0480**Possession Required: ** Yes

**Filing Organization: **Steven's Transport Inc.**Regulation: ** 383.25(a)(1)**Applies To: ** Steven's Transport Drivers**Exemption: ** Commercial learner’s permit holder may operate a commercial motor vehicle without a commercial driver’s license holder present in the front seat of the vehicle**Date Appl. Published Fed Reg: ** 6/14/22**Effective Date: ** 12/28/22**Expiration Date: ** 12/28/27**Docket Number: ** FMCSA-2022-0103**Possession Required: ** Yes

**Filing Organization: **RV Industry Association**Regulation: ** 383.91(a)(1) and 383.91(a)(2)**Applies To: ** Drive-away Recreational vehicle drivers**Exemption: ** Drivers engaged in drive-away deliveries of RVs with gross vehicle weight ratings of 26,001 pounds or more are not required to have a Commercial Driver’s license as long as the empty RVs have gross vehicle weights or gross combination weights that do not meet or exceed 26,001 pounds, and any RV trailers towed by other vehicles weigh 10,000 pounds or less.**Date Appl. Published Fed Reg: ** 5/19/22**Effective Date: ** 4/6/22**Expiration Date: ** 4/6/27**Docket Number: ** FMCSA-2014-0352**Possession Required: ** Yes

**Filing Organization: **United Parcel Service (UPS)**Regulation: **   383.93(b) and 395.37(a)**Applies To: ** UPS drivers only**Exemption: ** Permit UPS drivers trainees to operate twin 28-foot trailers (i.e., doubles) while in possession of a commercial learner’s permit.**Date Appl. Published Fed Reg: ** 2/25/22**Effective Date: ** 9/28/22**Expiration Date: ** 9/28/27**Docket Number: ** FMCSA-2020-0069**Possession Required: ** Yes

**Filing Organization: **National School Transportation Association**Regulation: ** 383.113(a)(1)(i)**Applies To: ** Commercial driver’s license applicants seeking the S and P endorsements, subject to the (K) restriction limiting their operation to intrastate commerce.**Exemption: ** Exemption from the Pre-trip vehicle skills testing component, also known as the "Under the Hood" testing requirement.**Date Appl. Published Fed Reg: ** 8/11/22**Effective Date: ** 11/27/22**Expiration Date: ** 11/27/24**Docket Number: ** FMCSA-2022-0148**Possession Required: ** No

**Filing Organization: **Hawaii DOT**Regulation: **383.113 **Applies To: ** Commercial Driver's License (CDL) applicants who take the skills test on the islands of Lanai and Molokai.

**Exemption: **Permits the State of Hawaii to waive specific portions of the CDL skills test for CDL applicants who take the skills test on the islands of Lanai and Molokai and issue these drivers a restricted CDL.**Date Appl. Published Fed Reg: ** 2/20/24**Effective Date: **2/20/24** ** **Expiration Date: ** 2/20/26**Docket Number: ** FMCSA-2023-0185**Possession Required: **No

**Filing Organization: **American Association of Motor Vehicle Administrators**Regulation: ** 383.133(c)(1)(2)**Applies To: ** New Hampshire, Maryland, and Virginia drivers**Exemption: ** Exemption to enable the three states to participate in robust field testing of the new commercial driver's license skills test procedures.**Date Appl. Published Fed Reg: ** 12/9/21**Effective Date: ** 2/22/22**Expiration Date: ** 2/22/27**Docket Number: ** FMCSA-2021-0172**Possession Required: ** No

**Part 390 - Federal Motor Carrier Safety Regulations (General)**

**Filing Organization: **Adirondak Trailways, Pine Hill Trailways, and New York Trailways**Category: ** Vehicle**Regulation: ** 390.21(b)(3)**Applies To: ** All motor carrier passengers**Exemption: ** Exemption from FMCSA’s commercial motor vehicles marking rules under certain circumstances involving the exchange of equipment and/or drivers.**Date Appl. Published Fed Reg: ** 1/14/20**Effective Date: ** 6/1/20**Expiration Date: ** 5/28/25**Docket Number: ** FMCSA-2020-0062**Possession Required: ** No

**Part 391 - Qualifications of Drivers and Longer Combination Vehicle Driver Instructors**

**Filing Organization: ** Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV)**Regulation: ** 391.49**Applies To: ** CMV drivers licensed in Virginia subject to Federal Skill Performance Evaluation (SPE) requirements**Exemption: ** The exemption allows the Virginia DMV to conduct an SPE Certificate program identical to FMCSA's SPE Certificate program. The exemption allows CMV drivers who are licensed in Virginia and are subject to the Federal SPE requirements, to fulfill the Federal requirements with a Virginia State-issued SPE Certificate and to operate CMVs in interstate commerce anywhere in the United States.**Date Appl. Published Fed Reg: ** 7/6/23**Effective Date: ** 7/8/23**Expiration Date: ** 7/7/25**Docket Number: ** FMCSA-2013-0147**Possession Required: ** No

**Filing Organization: **Knight-Swift Transportation Holdings, Inc.**Regulation: ** 391.51(b)(7)(ii)**Applies To: ** Knight-Swift drivers (newly hired)**Exemption: ** This exemption allows Knight-Swift Transportation Holdings, Inc to use newly hired drivers without having to obtain a motor vehicle record that reflects the latest medical certification status during the first year of employment.**Date Appl. Published Fed Reg: ** 12/23/19**Effective Date: ** 11/4/20**Expiration Date: ** 11/4/25**Docket Number: ** FMCSA-2019-0287**Possession Required: ** No

**Part 393 - Parts and Accessories Necessary for Safe Operation**

**Filing Organization: **Cleveland-Cliffs, Steel LLC**Regulation:**   393.5,   393.11,   393.75, 393.120, 395**Applies To:  **Cleveland Cliffs Commercial Driver’s License Holders that transport coils.**Exemption:  **This exemption allows appliable drivers to use coil carriers that do not meet the “heavy hauler trailer” definition, restrictions on the height of rear side marker lights, tire loading restrictions, and the coil securement requirements in part 393 of the FMCSRs.**Date Appl. Published Fed Reg: ** 8/26/21**Effective Date: ** 5/11/22**Expiration Date:  **5/11/27**Docket Number:  **FMCSA-2016-0050**Possession Required:  **No

**Filing Organization: **Laydon Composites Ltd.**Regulation:  **393.11**Applies To:  **Motor carriers operating with commercial motor vehicles equipped with a Laydon's OptiTailTM aerodynamic device. 

**Exemption:  **The Exemption allows motor carriers to operate commercial motor vehicles that are equipped with Laydon's OptiTailTM aerodynamic device with rear identification lamps and rear clearance lamps that are mounted lower than currently permitted by the Agency's regulations.**Date Appl. Published Fed Reg:  **3/28/19**Effective Date:  **5/18/20**Expiration Date:  **5/18/25**Docket Number:  **FMCSA-2019-0070**Possession Required:  **Yes

**Filing Organization: **Automobile Conference Carriers (ACC) and Auto Haulers Association of America (AHAA)**Regulation: ** 393.11 and 393.87**Applies To: **Motor carriers** s**tinger-steered transporter equipment ** Exemption: **Exemption to relieve motor carriers operating stinger-steered automobile transporter equipment from the requirement to place warning flags on projecting loads of new and used motor vehicles.**Date Appl. Published Fed Reg: **2/21/24**Effective Date:**2/15/24**Expiration Date: **8/9/24**Docket Number:**FMCSA-2018-0090**Possession Required: **No

**Filing Organization: **Towmate, LLC.**Regulation: ** 393.23**Applies To:  **All motor carriers**Exemption:  **Exemption for a 5-year renewal of the existing temporary; Power Supply for Lamps.**Date Appl. Published Fed Reg: ** 4/19/2023**Effective Date: ** 2/9/23**Expiration Date:  **2/9/28**Docket Number:  **FMCSA-2015-0238**Possession Required:  **Yes

**Filing Organization: **Groendyke Transport, Inc.**Regulation:  **393.25(e)**Applies To:  **Groendyke trailers**Exemption:**Permits use of an amber brake-activated pulsating lamp in addition to the required steady-burning brake lamps**Date Appl. Published Fed Reg:  **7/30/18**Effective Date: ** 4/26/19**Expiration Date:  **4/26/24**Docket Number:  **FMCSA-2018-0223**Possession Required:  **No

**Filing Organization: **National Tank Truck Carriers, Inc. **Regulation: ** 393.25**Applies To: ** Motor Carriers Operating Tank Trailers **Exemption: ** Allows motor carriers operating tank trailers to install a red or amber brake-activated pulsating lamp positioned in the upper center position or in an upper dual outboard position on the rear of the trailers.**Date Appl. Published Fed Reg: ** 4/2/20**Effective Date: ** 10/8/20**Expiration Date: ** 10/8/25**Docket Number: ** FMCSA-2019-0260**Possession Required: ** No

**Filing Organization: **Grote Industries, LLC**Regulation:  **393.25(e)**Applies To:  **All motor carriers**Exemption:  **Exemption allows motor carriers operating trailers and van body trucks to install brake-activated pulsating warning lamps on the rear of those vehicles in addition to the steady-burning brake lamps**Date Appl. Published Fed Reg:  **5/12/20**Effective Date:  **12/7/20**Expiration Date:  **12/2/25**Docket Number:  **FMCSA-2020-0122**Possession Required:  **No

**Filing Organization: **Waste Management Inc.**Regulation: ** 393.25(e)**Applies To: ** All WM drivers and Commercial motor vehicles**Exemption: ** Exemption from the requirement that all exterior lamps be steady burning.**Date Appl. Published Fed Reg: ** 6/3/21**Effective Date: ** 1/20/22**Expiration Date: ** 1/20/27**Docket Number: ** FMCSA-2021-0059**Possession Required: ** No

**Filing Organization: **SmartDrive Systems Inc.**Regulation: ** 393.60(e)**Applies To:  **Carriers using the SmartDrive ADAS camera system**Exemption: ** Allows ADAS camera to be mounted lower on windshield than is currently permitted.**Date Appl. Published Fed Reg: **11/27/18**Effective Date:  **4/15/19**Expiration Date: ** 4/15/24**Docket Number:  **FMCSA-2018-0321**Possession Required:  **Yes

**Filing Organization: **Navistar, Inc.**Regulation: ** 393.60(e)(1)**Applies To: ** Commercial motor vehicles (CMVs) equipped with Navistar’s Advanced Driver-Assistance System (ADAS)**Exemption: ** This exemption allows motor carrier that operate CMVs equipped with Navistar's ADAS in the approximate center of the top of the windshield and such that the bottom edge of the camera housing is approximately 8 inches below the upper edge of the windshield, outside of the driver's and passenger's normal sight lines to the road ahead, highway signs and signals, and all mirrors.**Date Appl. Published Fed Reg: ** 4/18/19**Effective Date: ** 11/25/19**Expiration Date: ** 11/25/24**Docket Number: ** FMCSA-2019-0091**Possession Required: ** No

**Filing Organization: **Lytx Inc.**Regulation:  **393.60(e)(1)(ii) (A)**Applies To:  **All commercial motor vehicle (CMV) equipped with Lytx, Inc.’s (Lytx) advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS)**Exemption:  **Permits CMVs equipped with Lytx’s ADAS to install the device in the approximate center of the top of the windshield and such that the bottom edge of the camera housing is approximately 8 inches below the upper edge of the area swept by the windshield wipers, outside of the driver's and passenger's normal sight lines to the road ahead, highway signs and signals, and all mirrors.**Date Appl. Published Fed Reg:  **12/3/19**Effective Date: ** 5/21/20**Expiration Date:  **5/18/25**Docket Number:  **FMCSA-2019-0244**Possession Required:  **No

**Filing Organization: **Nauto, Inc.**Regulation: ** 393.60(e)(1)**Applies To: ** Commercial motor vehicles equipped with Nauto’s multi-sensor device **Exemption: ** Permits CMVs equipped with Nauto's multi-sensor device in the approximate center of the top of the windshield and such that the bottom edge of the multi-sensor device housing is approximately 8 inches below the upper edge of the area swept by the windshield wipers, outside of the driver's and passenger's normal sight lines to the road ahead, highway signs and signals, and all mirrors.****

**Date Appl. Published Fed Reg: ** 4/2/20**Effective Date: ** 10/9/20**Expiration Date: ** 10/9/25**Docket Number: ** FMCSA-2020-0106**Possession Required: ** No

**Filing Organization: **Samsara Networks, Inc.**Regulation: ** 393.60(e)(1)**Applies To:  **AI dash cam**Exemption:  **Allows AI Dash Cam to be mounted lower in the windshield.**Date Appl. Published Fed Reg:  **4/13/20**Effective Date:  **10/28/20**Expiration Date: ** 10/28/25**Docket Number:  **FMCSA-2020-0112**Possession Required:  **No

**Filing Organization: **J.J. Keller & Associates, Inc.**Regulation:  **393.60(e)(1)**Applies To:  **Commercial motor vehicles equipped with Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) camera**Exemption:  **Exemption allows its ADAS cameras to be mounted lower in the windshield than is currently permitted by the Agency’s regulations.**Date Appl. Published Fed Reg: ** 8/13/20**Effective Date:  **11/24/20**Expiration Date:  **11/24/25**Docket Number:  **FMCSA-2020-0169**Possession Required:  **No

**Filing Organization: **Netradyne, Inc.**Regulation: ** 393.60(e)(1)**Applies To: ** Commercial motor vehicles equipped with Driveri® Dash Cam**Exemption: ** Allows its Driveri® Dash Cam to be mounted lower in the windshield than is currently permitted.**Date Appl. Published Fed Reg: ** 8/20/20**Effective Date: ** 12/18/20**Expiration Date: ** 12/15/25**Docket Number: ** FMCSA-2020-0173**Possession Required: ** No

**Filing Organization:** Bendix Commercial Vehicle Systems LLC**Regulation: **393.60(e)(1)**Applies To: **All commercial motor vehicles equipped with Bendix Advance Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) technology**Exemption: **Exemption****allows ADAS technology can be mounted lower in the windshield on commercial motor vehicles**Date Appl. Published Fed Reg: **12/1/20**Effective Date: **4/6/21**Expiration Date: **4/6/26**Docket Number: **FMCSA- 2020-0196**Possession Required:  **No

**Filing Organization:** EROADS Inc**Regulation:**  393.60(e)(1)**Applies To:  **Commercial Motor Vehicles equipped with EROAD's Dashcam device **Exemption:  **Allows the Dashcam device to be mounted lower in the windshield on commercial motor vehicles than is currently permitted.**Date Appl. Published Fed Reg:  **7/26/21**Effective Date:  **10/18/21**Expiration Date:  **10/13/26**Docket Number: ** FMCSA-2021-0098**Possession Required:  **No

**Filing Organization:** Forward Thinking Systems, LLC (FTS)Regulation:  393.60(e)(1)**Applies To:  **Commercial Motor Vehicles equipped with FTS's FleetCam device**Exemption:**  Exemption allows motor carriers to operate CMVs equipped with FTS's FleetCam device in the approximate center of the top of the windshield and such that the bottom edge of the technology housing is approximately 8 inches below the upper edge of the area swept by the windshield wipers, outside of the driver's and passenger's normal sight lines to the road ahead, highway signs and signals, and all mirrors.**Date Appl. Published Fed Reg: ** 7/14/21**Effective Date: ** 10/18/21**Expiration Date: ** 10/13/26**Docket Number:  **FMCSA-2021-0099**Possession Required:  **No

**Filing Organization: **ZF CV Systems North America LLC**Regulation: ** 393.60(e)**Applies To: ** ZF CV Systems Commercial Motor Vehicles**Exemption: ** Exemption allows its advanced driver-assistance systems (ADAS) camera to be mounted lower in the windshield on a CMV than is currently permitted.**Date Appl. Published Fed Reg: ** 8/12/2021**Effective Date: ** 11/8/21**Expiration Date: ** 11/9/26**Docket Number: ** FMCSA-2021-0124**Possession Required: ** No

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**Filing Organization: **Complete Innovations Inc.**Regulation: ** 393.60 (e)(1)**Applies To: ** Commercial Motor Vehicles equipped with a Complete Innovation’s Vision 2.0 Device**Exemption: ** Exemption allows its Vision 2.0 device to be mounted lower in the windshield on commercial motor vehicles than is currently permitted.**Date Appl. Published Fed Reg: ** 8/26/21**Effective Date: ** 1/20/22**Expiration Date: ** 1/20/27**Docket Number: ** FMCSA-2021-0119**Possession Required: ** No

**Filing Organization: **Daimler Coaches North America**Regulation: ** 393.60(e)(1)**Applies To: ** Daimler Tourrider commercial motorcoaches equipped with Daimler Coaches' DACT**Exemption: ** Exemption allows Daimler Coach driver assistance technology (DACT) device to extend beyond the current mounting location limits in the lower area of the windshield on Tourrider commercial motorcoaches.**Date Appl. Published Fed Reg: ** 8/5/22**Effective Date: ** 6/27/23**Expiration Date: ** 6/22/28**Docket Number: ** FMCSA-2022-0075**Possession Required: ** No

**Filing Organization: **Charles Machines Works, Inc.**Regulation: **393.65(d)**Applies To: **All commercial motor vehicles**Exemption: **Exemption allows the use of gravity or syphon-fed fuel systems for auxiliary equipment on or used in connection with commercial motor vehicles that operate only when the CMV is not operating on the highway.**Date Appl. Published Fed Reg: **3/28/19**Effective Date: **9/16/20**Expiration Date:** 9/16/25**Docket Number: **FMCSA-2019-0069**Possession Required: **No

**Filing Organization: **Vision Systems North America, Inc.**Regulation:  **393.80(a)**Applies To:  **All motor carriers**Exemption:  **Allows motor carriers to operate commercial motor vehicles with the company’s Smart-Vision high-definition camera monitoring system (Smart-Vision) installed as an alternative to the two rear-vision mirrors required by the regulations.**Date Appl. Published Fed Reg:  **9/26/19**Effective Date:  **1/15/20**Expiration Date: ** 1/15/25**Docket Number:  **FMCSA-2019-0159**Possession Required:  **Yes

**Filing Organization: **Robert Bosch, LLC and Mekra Lang North America, LLC**Regulation:  **393.80(a)**Applies To:  **All motor carriers**Exemption:  **Exemption allows motor carriers operating commercial motor vehicles to utilize the Bosch and Mekra Lang Commercial Vehicle Digital Monitor System installed in lieu of the two rear-vision mirrors required by the regulation.**Date Appl. Published Fed Reg:  **1/30/20**Effective Date:  **9/17/20**Expiration Date: ** 9/17/25**Docket Number:  **FMCSA-2019-0286**Possession Required:  **No

**Filing Organization: **Rosco Vision Inc. (Rosco)**Regulation: ** 393.80**Applies To: ** Motor carriers using the Commercial Vehicle Digital Camera Monitor System (CV Digital CMS)**Exemption: ** The Exemption allows motor carriers to operate commercial motor vehicles with Rosco’s CV Digital CMS installed as an alternative to the two-year mirrors required by the regulations.**Date Appl. Published Fed Reg: ** 12/21/21**Effective Date: ** 12/4/22**Expiration Date: ** 12/4/27**Docket Number: ** FMCSA-2021-0186**Possession Required: ** No

**Filing Organization: **Ford Motor Company**Regulation:  **393.83**Applies To:  **Commercial motor vehicles (CMV) based on the Ford Transit model**Exemption:  **Exemption allows motor carriers to operate Ford-manufactured Transit-based CMVs that do not comply with the regulation's exhaust system location requirements**Date Appl. Published Fed Reg: ** 8/18/22**Effective Date:  **8/16/22**Expiration Date:  **8/16/27**Docket Number:  **FMCSA-2015-0111**Possession Required:**  No

**Filing Organization: **Automobile Carriers Conference of the American Trucking Associations**Regulation:  **393.87**Applies To:  **Motor carriers operating stinger steered automobile transporter equipment**Exemption:  **No warning flags required**Date Appl. Published Fed Reg: ****Effective Date:  **2/15/24**Expiration Date:**8/9/24**Docket Number:  **FMCSA- 2018-0090**Possession Required:  **No

**Filing Organization: **Pi Variables, Inc.**Regulation: ** 393.95(f)**Applies To: ** All motor carriers operating commercial motor vehicles (CMVs) with Pi-Lit LED flares.

**Exemption: ** Allows Pi Variables" Pi-Lit Smart Sequential Road Flares to be deployed when CMVs are stopped upon the traveled portion of a highway or the shoulder of a highway for any cause other than necessary traffic stops as an alternative to the bidirectional emergency reflective triangles, fuses or liquid-burning flares required by the regulations. **Date Appl. Published Fed Reg: ** 2/18/22**Effective Date: ** 6/27/23**Expiration Date: ** 6/27/28**Docket Number: ** FMCSA-2021-0187**Possession Required: ** No

**Filing Organization:**  Agricultural and Food Transporters Conference of American Trucking Association**Regulation:**  393.102, 393.106, 393.110, and 393.114**Applies To:**  Motor carriers transporting boxes, bins, or tubs of agricultural commodities, or hay, straw, and cotton bales. 

**Exemption:**  Allows alternative means of securement see Docket Number: FMCSA-2017-0319-0004 for securements methods.**Date Appl. Published Fed Reg:**  1/15/18**Effective Date:**  4/23/19**Expiration Date: **4/23/24**Docket Number:**  FMCSA- 2017-0319**Possession Required:**  No

**Filing Organization: **International Institute of Towing and Recovery**Regulation: ** 393.112 and 393.128**Applies To: ** All motor carriers**Exemption:** Use combination of fixed and adjustable tiedowns to secure light vehicles.**Date Appl. Published Fed Reg: ** 6/14/22**Effective Date: ** 5/17/22**Expiration Date: ** 5/15/27**Docket Number: ** FMCSA-2016-0111**Possession Required: ** No

**Filing Organization: **K&L Trucking, Inc.**Regulation: ** 393.120(c)**Applies To: ** K&L Trucking Inc**Exemption: ** Allows the company to secure large metal coils to its trailers using a cargo securement system that differs from that required by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Regulations.**Date Appl. Published Fed Reg: ** 5/14/20**Effective Date: ** 12/4/20**Expiration Date: ** 12/4/25**Docket Number: ** FMCSA-2020-0044**Possession Required: ** No

**Filing Organization: **Flatbed Carrier Safety Group**Regulation: ** 393.120**Applies To: ** Motor carriers that haul metal coils with eyes crosswise in rows in which the coils are loaded to contact each other in the longitudinal direction.**Exemption: ** Motor carriers may continue to use the pre-January 1, 2004, cargo securement regulations for the transportation of groups of metal coils with eyes crosswise, as this loading configuration is not currently covered under the Agency's commodity-specific rules for securing metal coils in the Code of Federal Regulations. **Date Appl. Published Fed Reg: ** 4/26/22**Effective Date: ** 4/13/22**Expiration Date: ** 4/13/27**Docket Number: ** FMCSA-2010-0177**Possession Required: ** No

**Filing Organization: **Loomis Armored US, LLC.**Regulation: ** 393.203(a)**Applies To:  **Loomis armored vehicles**Exemption:  **Allows the driver and passenger doors of the cab of its specialized armored vehicles to be welded shut, given the addition of two new doors behind the cab.**Date Appl. Published Fed Reg:  **4/7/21**Effective Date:  **10/18/21**Expiration Date:  **10/13/26**Docket Number:  **FMCSA-2021-0191**Possession Required:  **No

**Part 395 - Hours of Service (HOS)**

**Filing Organization: **National Mobile Shower & Catering Association (NMSCA)**Regulation: ** 395**Applies To: ** All NMSCA’s Commercial Motor Vehicle (CMV) drivers**Exemption: ** The exemption allows CMV drivers employed by NMSCA members transporting equipment to provide food and water services to contracted firefighters at designated base camps.**Date Appl. Published Fed Reg: ** 11/27/18**Effective Date: ** 10/1/19**Expiration Date: ** 10/1/24**Docket Number: ** FMCSA-2018-0331**Possession Required: ** Yes

**Filing Organization: **R.J. Corman Railroad Services, Cranemasters, Inc. and The National Railroad Construction & Maintenance Association, Inc.**Regulation: ** 395**Applies To: ** All R.J. Corman Railroad Services and Cranemasters drivers and members of The National Railroad Construction & Maintenance drivers**Exemption: ** Exempt from the prohibition against driving a property-carrying commercial motor vehicles after the 14th hour after coming on duty and driving after accumulating 60 hours of on-duty time in 7 consecutive days (60-hour rule), or 70 hours of on-duty time in 8 consecutive days (70-hour rule). The exemption enables railroad employees subject to the hours-of-service rules to respond to unplanned events that occur outside of or extend beyond the employee's normal work hours.**Date Appl. Published Fed Reg: ** 3/8/19**Effective Date: ** 3/4/20**Expiration Date: ** 3/4/25**Docket Number: ** FMCSA-2019-0056**Possession Required: ** No

**Filing Organization: **Cleveland-Cliffs Steel LLC**Regulation: ** 395**Applies To: ** Cleveland Cliffs commercial driver’s license (CDL) drivers**Exemption: ** Exemption from the HOS regulations allows employee-drivers with CDLs who transport scrap metal on two trucks between their production and shipping locations on public roads to work up to 16 hours per day and return to work with less than the mandatory 10 consecutive hours off duty.**Date Appl. Published Fed Reg: ** 8/16/21**Effective Date: ** 5/11/22**Expiration Date: ** 5/11/27**Docket Number: ** FMCSA-2016-0050**Possession Required: ** No

**Filing Organization: **Cleveland-Cliffs, Steel LLC**Regulation:**  395, Regulation:  393.5, Regulation:  393.11, Regulation:  393.75 and Regulation:  393.120**Applies To:  **Cleveland Cliffs commercial driver’s license holders who transport steel coils between their production and shipping locations on public roads.**Exemption:  **Drivers utilizing the exemption may work up to 16 consecutive hours in a duty period and return to work with a minimum of at least 8 hours off duty when necessary.

**Date Appl. Published Fed Reg: ** 8/26/21**Effective Date: ** 5/11/22**Expiration Date:  **5/11/27**Docket Number:  **FMCSA-2016-0050**Possession Required:  **No

**Filing Organization: **Motion Picture Association**Regulation: ** 395**Applies To: ** Commercial Motor Vehicles drivers**Exemption: ** Drivers may use paper to complete record of duty status instead of using an ELD device when transporting to or from a theatrical or television motion picture production site.**Date Appl. Published Fed Reg: ** 11/3/22**Effective Date: ** 1/19/23**Expiration Date: ** 1/19/28**Docket Number: ** FMCSA-2017-0298**Possession Required: ** Yes

**Filing Organization: ****RJR Transportation, Inc. (RJR)**Regulation: ** 395.1(e)(1)**Applies To: ** All RJR drivers**Exemption: ** Permits RJR drivers that do not exceed the 150 air-mile radius to utilize time records instead of a record of duty status for that day.**Date Appl. Published Fed Reg: ** 10/18/18**Effective Date: ** 6/7/19**Expiration Date: ** 6/7/24**Docket Number: ** FMCSA-2018-0271**Possession Required: ** Yes

**Filing Organization: ****Kimble Recycling & Disposal Inc. (KRD)**Regulation: ** 395.1(e)(1)(ii)(A)**Applies To: ** All KRD Commercial Motor Vehicles drivers**Exemption: ** The Exemption allows drivers to use the short-haul RODS exception, but with a 14-hour duty period instead of 12 hours.**Date Appl. Published Fed Reg: ** 5/28/19**Effective Date: ** 11/21/19**Expiration Date: ** 11/21/24**Docket Number: ** FMCSA-2019-0106**Possession Required: ** Yes

**Filing Organization: ****National Waste & Recycling Assoc. (NWRA)**Regulation: ** 395.1(e)(1)(ii)(A)**Applies To: ** All NWRA Commercial Motor Vehicle drivers**Exemption: ** The Exemption allows drivers to use the short-haul RODS exception, but with a 14-hour duty period instead of 12 hours.**Date Appl. Published Fed Reg: ** 3/29/19**Effective Date: ** 11/21/19**Expiration Date: ** 11/21/24**Docket Number: ** FMCSA-2019-0085**Possession Required: ** Yes

**Filing Organization: **McKee Foods**Regulation: ** 395.1(g)(1)(ii)(A) (1–2)**Applies To: ** Team drivers using sleeper berth**Exemption: ** Sleeper berth modified rule, Exemption renewal**Date Appl. Published Fed Reg: ** 1/30/20**Effective Date: ** 4/20/20**Expiration Date: ** 4/20/25**Docket Number: ** FMCSA-2014-0071**Possession Required: ** Yes

**Filing Organization: **WestRock**Regulation: ** 395.3(a)(2)**Applies To: ** WestRock drivers**Exemption: ** Exemption restricted to drivers exclusively assigned to a specific route. This route is entirely on one street (Compress Street), between the shipping and receiving departments – approximately 275 feet in one direction. Drivers are allowed to work up to 16 consecutive hours in a duty period and return to work with a minimum of at least 8 hours off duty when necessary.**Date Appl. Published Fed Reg: ** 2/21/19**Effective Date: ** 4/17/24**Expiration Date: ** 4/16/29**Docket Number: ** FMCSA-2010-0027**Possession Required: ** No

**Filing Organization: **American Pyrotechnics Association (APA)**Regulation: ** 395.3(a)(2) and 395.8(a)(1)(i)**Applies To: ** APA drivers**Exemption: ** Exemptions will allow driver-employees of APA member-companies to exclude off-duty and sleeper berth time of any length from the calculation of the 14-hour time limit and to use paper RODS in lieu of ELDs during designated Independence Day periods.**Date Appl. Published Fed Reg: ** 7/8/22**Effective Date: ** 6/28/23**Expiration Date: ** 7/8/24**Docket Number: ** FMCSA-2021-0052**Possession Required: ** No

**Filing Organization: ****Transco Inc.**Regulation: ** 395.3(a)(3)(ii)**Applies To: ** Transco drivers**Exemption: ** Enables Transco drivers to comply with the 30-minute break requirement while performing on-duty-not- driving tasks**Date Appl. Published Fed Reg: ** 10/18/18**Effective Date: ** 8/28/19**Expiration Date: ** 8/28/24**Docket Number: ** FMCSA-2018-0302**Possession Required: ** Yes

**Filing Organization: **Extreme Logistics, LLC**Regulation: ** 395.3(a)(2)**Applies To: ** Extreme Logistics LLC.’s Driver-employees**Exemption: ** Allows drivers to exclude off-duty and sleeper-berth time of any length from the calculation of the 14-hour limit during Independence Day Celebrations June 28 – July 8 through 2025.**Date Appl. Published Fed Reg: ** 4/18/19**Effective Date: ** 6/28/24**Expiration Date: ** 7/8/24**Docket Number: ** FMCSA-2019-0086**Possession Required: ** Yes

**Filing Organization: **Specialized Carriers & Rigging Association (SC&RA)**Regulation: ** 395.3(a)(3)(ii)**Applies To: ** Oversize/Over -weight CMVs**Exemption: ** All specialized carriers and drivers responsible for the transportation of loads that exceed maximum legal weight and dimensional limits – oversize/overweight (OS/OW) loads – that require a permit issued by a government authority are exempt from the 30-minute break provision.**Date Appl. Published Fed Reg: ** 4/30/20**Effective Date: ** 6/18/20**Expiration Date: ** 6/17/25**Docket Number: ** FMCSA-2014-0420**Possession Required: ** Yes

**Filing Organization: ** **Ace Pyro, LLC/ Illumination Fireworks Partners, LP**Regulation: ** 395.3(a)(2)**Applies To: ** Drivers of Illumination Fireworks, LP and ACE Pyro, LLC only**Exemption: ** Allows drivers to exclude off-duty and sleeper-berth time of any length from the calculation of the 14-hour limit. Effective for the periods of June 28-July 8, 2024.**Date Appl. Published Fed Reg: ** 10/23/20**Effective Date: ** 6/18/20**Expiration Date: ** 6/18/25**Docket Number: ** ****FMCSA-2019-0180**Possession Required: ** No

**Filing Organization: **Association of American Railroads & American Short Line and Regional Railroad Association**Regulation: ** 395.3(a)-(b)**Applies To: ** Driver- employees**Exemption: ** Enable railroad employees subject to the hours of service rules to respond to unplanned events that occur outside of or extend beyond an employee’s normal work hours.**Date Appl. Published Fed Reg: ** 12/23/20**Effective Date: ** 12/23/20**Expiration Date: ** 12/18/25**Docket Number: ** FMCSA- 2020-0171**Possession Required: ** No

**Filing Organization: **United Parcel Service (UPS)**Regulation: ** 395.37(a) and 383.93(b)**Applies To: ** UPS drivers only**Exemption: ** Permit UPS drivers trainees to operate twin 28-foot trailers (i.e., doubles) while in possession of a Commercial License Permit.**Date Appl. Published Fed Reg: ** 2/25/22**Effective Date: ** 9/28/22**Expiration Date: ** 9/28/27**Docket Number: ** FMCSA-2020-0069**Possession Required: ** Yes

**Filing Organization: **Truck Renting and Leasing Association**Regulation: ** 395.8**Applies To: ** Commercial Motor Vehicle leased for 8 days or fewer**Exemption: ** No Electronic Logging Device required.**Date Appl. Published Fed Reg: ** 9/12/22**Effective Date: ** 10/12/22**Expiration Date: ** 10/12/27**Docket Number: ** FMCSA-2016-0428**Possession Required: ** Yes

**Filing Organization: **United Parcel Service (UPS)**Regulation: ** 395.8**Applies To: ** All drivers and carriers using electronic logging devices (ELDs)**Exemption: **(1) Can enter data in portable ELD without vehicle power on (2) Not required to re-enter yard move each power cycle**Date Appl. Published Fed Reg: ** 10/26/22**Effective Date: ** 10/21/22**Expiration Date: ** 10/21/27**Docket Number: ** FMCSA-2017-0054**Possession Required: ** No

**Part 396 - Inspection, Repair, and Maintenance**

**Filing Organization: **Intermodal Association of North America (IANA)**Category: ** Inspections**Regulation: ** 396.17**Applies To: ** Individuals who complete a training program consistent with a set of Intermodal Recommended Practices (IRPs) and associated requirements developed by IANA**Exemption: ** Individuals who successfully complete a training program consistent with (1) a set of 53 IRPs that have been developed by IANA and (2) the Competency Documents, Task Lists, and Question Matrices that have been developed by IANA for each of the 53 IRPs, and that have completed a minimum of 480 hours of training on those materials will be considered to be a qualified inspector for the purpose of conducting periodic (annual) inspections of intermodal equipment under 49 CFR 396.17.**Date Appl. Published Fed Reg: ** 4/3/20**Effective Date: ** 8/18/20**Expiration Date: ** 8/18/25**Docket Number: ** FMCSA-2020-0081**Possession Required: ** No

**Filing Organization: **Intermodal Association of North America (IANA)**Category: ** Inspections**Regulation: ** 396.25**Applies To: ** Individuals who complete a training program consistent with a set of Intermodal Recommended Practices and associated requirements developed by IANA**Exemption: ** Individuals who successfully complete a training program consistent with (1) a set of 53 IRPs that have been developed by IANA and (2) the Competency Documents, Task Lists, and Question Matrices that have been developed by IANA for each of the 53 IRPs, and that have completed a minimum of 480 hours of training on those materials will be considered to be a qualified brake inspector under 49 CFR 396.25**Date Appl. Published Fed Reg: ** 4/3/20**Effective Date: ** 8/18/20**Expiration Date: ** 8/18/25**Docket Number: ** FMCSA-2020-0081**Possession Required: ** No

FMCSA invites all interested parties to notify FMCSA immediately if they observe any safety problems associated with any of  these exemptions. FMCSA is required to revoke an exemption immediately if the person fails to comply with the terms and conditions of the exemption, if the exemption has resulted in a lower level of safety than was maintained before the exemption was granted, or if continuation of the exemption would not be consistent with the goals and objectives of the regulations issued under the authority of 49 U.S.C. chapter 313 or 49 U.S.C. 31136.

*Drivers must have a copy of the corresponding federal register notice in their possession while operating under the terms of said exemption. The exemption document must be presented to law enforcement officials upon request.

***Hours of Service Final Rule published on June 1, 2020, effective date September 29, 2020, supersedes this exemption.*

 

 

 

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