The Carrier's Almanac
The FMCSA rule that matters this week, in two minutes.
You got your authority. Now a stack of federal obligations is quietly counting down to your safety audit. Each issue takes one of them, strips it to the big idea and the deadline, and tells you the single thing to do next — so nothing sneaks up on you.
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Issue 01 · preview
~2 min readThe audit clock you didn't set
Nobody hands a new carrier a dated list of what the New Entrant Safety Audit checks. Here's the short version:
- FMCSA runs a New Entrant Safety Audit inside your first 12 months of interstate operation.
- It is a records audit — drug & alcohol program, driver files, hours-of-service, maintenance.
- A failed audit can put your new-entrant registration at risk, so prep is the whole game.
Cite: 49 CFR Part 385, Subpart D (New Entrant program).
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