FFD Test| 215 Questions with correct Answers

Trucking regulations moved to DOT and functions of the Bureau of Public Roads transferred to FHWA in what year? correct answer: 1967 National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, (NHTSA), est. correct answer: 1970 Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) est. correct answer: 1970 Motor Carrier Act of 1980 in what year? correct answer: 1980 What Act deregulated the trucking industry, defined and refocused trucking regulations; rates no longer under Fed scrutiny -Zone of reasonableness- Barrier reduced - Gave rise to JIT inventory model correct answer: Motor Carrier Act of 1980 Commercial Motor Vehicle Safety Act- set nationwide min standards for State Commercial drivers license (What year?) correct answer: 1986 America's Road Team est. correct answer: 1986 White House and Congress worked together in what month/year to form the EPA(Environment Protection Agency) correct answer: July 1970 Interstate Commerce Act correct answer: 1887 law passed to regulate railroad and other interstate businesses Pneumatic truck tire correct answer: 1919 Diesel truck engine correct answer: 1924 ATA (American Trucking Association) est. correct answer: 1933 Motor Carrier Act part 2, -regulating the trucking industry(under pressure from RR, passed by Congress) in .... correct answer: 1935 National Truck Rodeo est. (1st Rodeo) correct answer: 1937 HOS imposed by the ICC (1st time), 12hr drive time- 15hr on duty time over 8 decades correct answer: 1938 ATA Foundation est. correct answer: 1954 ATA Foundation was a precursor to what? correct answer: ATRI (American Transportation Research Institute) Dwight D Eisenhower signed Federal Highway Aid Act creating the interstate highway system over the next 35 years. What year did he sign it? correct answer: 1956 DOT est. (by an act of Congress as a cabinet level organization) in what year? correct answer: 1966 FHWA est. (under DOT), in what year? correct answer: 1966 ISTEA (Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act correct answer: 1991 ISTEA stands for? correct answer: Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act 1991 NAFTA (North American Free Trade Agreement) ratified in what year? correct answer: 1994 What year did Fed law limit states authority to regulate Interstate trucking industry correct answer: 1995