# 2025-00212: Feds Admit They Messed Up Trucking Safety Rules

2025-00212, Federal Motor Carrier Safety Regulations; Correction, is a Federal Register rule from an unnamed agency published 2025-01-10, effective 2025-01-10 (as of 2026-06-11).

- Canonical: https://policyrisk.com/federal-register/2025-00212
- As of: 2026-06-11
- Plain-text twin of the page above; the HTML and this file carry the same facts.

## Facts
- Document number: 2025-00212
- Title: Federal Motor Carrier Safety Regulations; Correction
- Type: Rule
- Agencies: unknown
- Citation: unknown
- Published: 2025-01-10
- Effective: 2025-01-10
- Comments close: not stated
- Significant: no
- Touches household money: no
- Regulation identifier numbers: none
- Last updated: 2026-06-11

## In one line

Feds Admit They Messed Up Trucking Safety Rules

## Summary

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration fixed two small but important mistakes in a recent update to truck safety rules. They corrected how a paused rule about broker financial responsibility is handled, now delaying its restart until January 16, 2026. These fixes keep things clear and fair for truckers, brokers, and freight forwarders without changing any costs or deadlines right now.

## Abstract

In a final rule published in the Federal Register on November 18, 2024, FMCSA amended its regulations by making technical corrections throughout the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Regulations (FMCSRs). The final rule included an amendatory instruction to revise a stayed section without first lifting the stay. The final rule also included an amendatory instruction which referenced an incorrect paragraph letter. The Agency corrects these errors.

## Effects PRIA read

- Broker bond rule stayed until 2026: benefit, high. If you are a property broker or freight forwarder, the rule in Sec. 387.307 about broker surety bonds or trust funds will remain stayed (not in effect) until January 16, 2026. The section refers to restoring a surety bond or trust fund to the $75,000 amount required by the rule.
- 7-business-day suspension process clarified: cost, high. If you are a broker, FMCSA will provide written notice that your operating authority will be suspended within 7 business days unless you provide written evidence that the notice was sent in error, the surety bond or trust fund has been restored to the $75,000 amount required by the section, or pend…

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## Sources
- [2025-00212 on federalregister.gov](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/01/10/2025-00212/federal-motor-carrier-safety-regulations-correction)
- [2025-00212 as published (PDF)](https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2025-01-10/pdf/2025-00212.pdf)

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Source: PRIA, https://policyrisk.com/federal-register/2025-00212 (as of 2026-06-11).