Commercial Driver's License Standards; Requirements and Penalties: Applicability to the Exception for Certain Military Personnel

What it does

FMCSA amends the Federal Motor Carrier Safety regulations (FMCSR) to allow dual-status military technicians to qualify for the exception for certain military personnel from commercial driver's license (CDL) standards. Dual-status military technicians are civilian technicians employed by military units to provide day-to-day support such as training, maintenance, and other activities required to support the unit. They are required by statute to maintain membership in one of the Army or Air Force Reserve Components as a condition of their civilian employment.

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration's summary, as published in the Federal Register.

What changed in the regulation

1 part of Title 49 of the Code of Federal Regulations:

49 CFR 383

Wording on eCFR: the day before it took effect and from the day it took effect (first part listed).

Compared with

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration has published 21 final rules in 2026 so far, compared with 6 in all of 2025.

Counted by the Tribune from Federal Register records since Jan. 1, 2025.

Before this

1 earlier Federal Register document under regulation identifier 2126-AC92 since Jan. 1, 2025.

• May 30, 2025 Notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM). Commercial Driver's License Standards; Requirements and Penalties: Applicability to the Exception for Certain Military Personnel

What happens next and when

Effective March 23, 2026. Petitions for reconsideration of this final rule must be submitted to the FMCSA Administrator no later than March 23, 2026.

The agency's dates, word for word.

Check it yourself

• The document in the Federal Register
• Docket FMCSA-2025-0118 on Regulations.gov
• Title 49 on eCFR

The record as published

Source: the Federal Register (public domain). The document in the Federal Register