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Qualifications of Drivers; Vision Standards Grandfathering Provision
The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration published this proposed rule in the Federal Register on May 30, 2025. Comments closed on July 29, 2025.
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What the agency says
FMCSA proposes to amend the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Regulations to remove the grandfathering provision under the physical qualifications standards for interstate drivers operating under the previously administered vision waiver study program, as this regulation is now obsolete. The waiver study program was terminated prior to the adoption of rules in 1998 implementing the Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century provision concerning waivers, exemptions and pilot programs.
Key facts
- Document number
- 2025-09707
- Type
- Proposed rule
- Action
- Notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM)
- Agency
- Transportation Department; Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration
- Published
- May 30, 2025
- Comments due
- July 29, 2025
- Dates
- Comments must be received on or before July 29, 2025.
- Docket
- Docket No. FMCSA-2025-0113
- Regulation ID (RIN)
- 2126-AC87
- Code of Federal Regulations
- 49 CFR 391
- Topics
- Motor carriers; Reporting and recordkeeping requirements; Safety; Transportation
- Pages
- 4
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