FMCSA accepts Mexican truck-inspection standard
-- Effective March 16, the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration is accepting the Mexican government standard for annual commercial vehicle inspections of Mexico-domiciled motor carriers that operate in the United States... In a notice posted in the Federal Register, FMCSA said it has determined that the specific Norma Oficial Mexicana (NOM), which translates to “Official Mexican Standard," for the periodic inspection of commercial motor vehicles should be added to the list of programs that are “comparable to, or as effective as, the Federal PI requirements contained in the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Regulations” ... While the agency “acknowledged” that Mexico's compliance date for certain vehicle safety systems and components, such as antilock braking systems, differs from U.S. requirements, it stated that it “does not believe the differences in the compliance dates for such systems is a sufficient basis for considering Mexico's annual inspection standards to be substantively different” ... FMCSA also pointed out that Mexico's mandatory annual inspection requirements cover most of the types of CMVs subject to FMCSA's periodic inspection regulations, including “property-carrying vehicles with a gross weight, gross vehicle weight rating, or gross combination weight rating of 10,001 pounds or more...
(Photo: Secretaría de Comunicaciones y Transportes de México) -- Washington, DC, USA - TruckingInfo, by David Cullen - March 16, 2016Labels: border controls, trucking industry news USA
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