- automobile transporter
means any vehicle combination designed and used for the transport of assembled highway vehicles, including truck camper units.
- backhaul
means the return trip of a vehicle transporting cargo or general freight, especially when carrying goods back over all or part of the same route.
- commercial motor vehicle
means a self-propelled or towed vehicle used on the highways in interstate commerce to transport passengers or property, if the vehicle—
- driveaway saddlemount vehicle transporter combination
means a vehicle combination designed and specifically used to tow up to 3 trucks or truck tractors, each connected by a saddle to the frame or fifth-wheel of the forward vehicle of the truck or truck tractor in front of it.
- electronic logging device
means an electronic device that—
- employee
means a driver of a commercial motor vehicle (including an independent contractor when personally operating a commercial motor vehicle), a mechanic, a freight handler, or an individual not an employer, who—
- farm vehicle
means a vehicle—
- intermodal equipment
means trailing equipment that is used in the intermodal transportation of containers over public highways in interstate commerce, including trailers and chassis.
- intermodal equipment interchange agreement
means the Uniform Intermodal Interchange and Facilities Access Agreement or any other written document executed by an intermodal equipment provider or its agent and a motor carrier or its agent, the primary purpose of which is to establish the responsibilities and liabilities of both parties with respect to the interchange of the intermodal equipment.
- intermodal equipment provider
means any person that interchanges intermodal equipment with a motor carrier pursuant to a written interchange agreement or has a contractual responsibility for the maintenance of the intermodal equipment.
- interstate commerce
includes transportation between a place in a State and a place outside the United States, to the extent the transportation is in the United States.
- intrastate commerce
means trade, traffic, or transportation in a State that is not interstate commerce.
- maxi-cube vehicle
means a truck tractor combined with a semitrailer and a separable property-carrying unit designed to be loaded and unloaded through the semitrailer, with the length of the separable property-carrying unit being not more than 34 feet and the length of the vehicle combination being not more than 65 feet.
- medical examiner
means an individual licensed, certified, or registered in accordance with regulations issued by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration as a medical examiner.
- motor carrier
has the meaning such term has under section 13102.
- officer
means an owner, director, chief executive officer, chief operating officer, chief financial officer, safety director, vehicle maintenance supervisor, and driver supervisor of a motor carrier, regardless of the title attached to those functions, and any person, however designated, exercising controlling influence over the operations of a motor carrier.
- passenger-carrying commercial motor vehicle
has the meaning given the term “commercial motor vehicle” in section 31301.
- property-carrying unit
means any part of a commercial motor vehicle combination (except the truck tractor) used to carry property, including a trailer, a semitrailer, or the property-carrying section of a single unit truck, but not including a trailer or a semitrailer transported as part of a towaway trailer transporter combination (as defined in section 31111(a)).
- regulation
includes a standard or order.
- serious driver-related violation
means a violation by an operator of a commercial motor vehicle that the Secretary determines will result in the operator being prohibited from continuing to operate a commercial motor vehicle until the violation is corrected.
- State
means a State of the United States, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, American Samoa, Guam, and the Northern Mariana Islands.
- State law
includes a law enacted by a political subdivision of a State.
- State regulation
includes a regulation prescribed by a political subdivision of a State.
- tamper resistant
means resistant to allowing any individual to cause an electronic device to record the incorrect date, time, and location for changes to on-duty driving status of a commercial motor vehicle operator under part 395 of title 49, Code of Federal Regulations, or to subsequently alter the record created by that device.
- towaway trailer transporter combination
means a combination of vehicles consisting of a trailer transporter towing unit and 2 trailers or semitrailers—
- trailer transporter towing unit
means a power unit that is not used to carry property when operating in a towaway trailer transporter combination.
- truck tractor
means—
- United States
means the States of the United States and the District of Columbia.