Safety Recommendations Made for border crossings.
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Press Release Summary:
NTSB recommends US Customs and Border Protection Agency assist US DoT in developing process to detect and report information on motor carriers identified during border crossing inspections (H-09-42). DoT assistance is also recommended in ensuring specific vehicles of H-09-42 are placed out of service. Also, H-09-43 recommends definition of interstate commerce from 49 Code of Federal Regulations 390.5 be incorporated into 19 Code of Federal Regulations 12.80.
Original Press Release:
NTSB Safety Recommendations H-09-42 and -43
The NTSB makes the following recommendations to the U.S. Customs and Border Protection Agency:
Assist the U.S. Department of Transportation in developing a process to detect and report to the Department of Transportation information on motor carriers identified during your border crossing inspections of passenger-carrying commercial motor vehicles to be currently operating non-FMVSS-compliant passenger-carrying commercial motor vehicles, other than exempted vehicles, in the United States (outside of the commercial zone), and assist the Department in ensuring such vehicles are placed out of service and requiring these motor carriers cease operating those vehicles in commercial interstate passenger service. (H-09-42)
Incorporate the definition of interstate commerce from 49 Code of Federal Regulations 390.5 into 19 Code of Federal Regulations 12.80 in order to provide a uniform, coherent definition for what constitutes an imported vehicle. (H-09-43)
http://ntsb.gov/recs/letters/2009/H09_42_43.pdf
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Electronic versions of letters may or may not include enclosures; however, related publications, accident briefs, and aviation accident synopses may be found on the NTSB website.
