Apr 22, 2024
— Last week, the FMCSA submitted a formal request to the Office of Management and Budget, seeking approval for a new collection request. Once approved, the proposed FMCSA Registration system (FRS) will replace the current Unified Registration System (URS) for nearly all stakeholders in the domestic commercial transportation industry.
Feb 14, 2024
— As IAM and other stakeholders await the release of the final required elements for all detention and demurrage invoices from the U.S. Federal Maritime Commission (FMC), we encourage members to review the current guidance, explained via this FMC webinar on how to submit challenges to detention and demurrage invoices.
Feb 1, 2024
— IAM is very pleased to report that yesterday, the U.S. Senate unanimously approved H.R. 1568, the Moving Americans Privacy Protection Act, legislation that will now require U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) to remove sensitive manifest data for incoming shipments, prior to their sale to commercial interests.
Jan 22, 2024
— IAM is pleased to report that late last week, the U.S. House of Representatives passed H.R. 1568, the Moving Americans Privacy Protection Act, legislation that would require U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) to remove sensitive manifest data for incoming shipments, prior to their sale to commercial interests.
Jan 12, 2024
— Earlier this week, the Department of Labor finalized their pending Worker Classification Rules, which outlines factors employers must consider when determining whether or not their worker is a company employee, or may be classified as an independent contractor.U.S. Department of Labor - Worker Classification/Independent Contractor Rule Finalized
Nov 16, 2023
— This week, the FMCSA issued a final rule covering a range of property broker requirements related to financial surety, agency reporting and potential non-compliance penalties for property brokers and freight forwarders.
Oct 27, 2023
— DoD/Government Personal Property Experts: This is our monthly update of International Logistics issues.
The report provides situational awareness on issues and realities on the ground and where you might see shipment delays, and why. And where situations improve, that will be noted as well. Monthly changes will be noted in red.
May 6, 2021
— IAM President Charles White signed on to a joint letter to congressional leaders, urging them to reinstate the moving expense tax deduction effective Jan. 1 of this year, and also asked them to not increase corporate or individual tax rates at this time.
May 24, 2019
— This is the eighth in a series of op-eds that IAM is running to shed additional light on problems associated with privatizing the household goods program to a single source contractor.
May 17, 2019
— This is the seventh in a series of op-eds that IAM is running to shed additional light on problems associated with privatizing the household goods program to a single source contractor.
May 10, 2019
— This is the sixth in a series of op-eds that IAM is running to shed additional light on problems associated with privatizing the household goods program to a single source contractor.
May 3, 2019
— This is the fifth in a series of op-eds that IAM is running to shed additional light on problems associated with privatizing the household goods program to a single source contractor.
Apr 26, 2019
— This is the fourth in a series of op-eds that IAM is running to shed additional light on problems associated with privatizing the household goods program to a single source contractor.
Apr 19, 2019
— This is the third in a series of op-eds that IAM is running to shed additional light on problems associated with privatizing the household goods program to a single source contractor.
Apr 12, 2019
— This is the second in a series of op-eds that IAM is running to shed additional light on problems associated with privatizing the household goods program to a single source contractor.
Apr 5, 2019
— This is the first in a series of op-eds that IAM is running to shed additional light on problems associated with privatizing the household goods program to a single source contractor.
Mar 29, 2019
— USTRANSCOM Public Affairs published a press release highlighting GEN Lyons’ meeting with CEOs from various moving companies who support DoD household goods movement, and a separate meeting with moving industry trade associations. The press release is not an accurate account of the events of those meetings. Industry attendees believe the tone of the press release implied industry’s support to the general’s decision to award a contract to a single provider. To be clear, most of DoD’s current household goods service providers do not support this initiative.
— This morning, the Trump Administration announced that community and minority owned lending institutions may begin processing PPP loan applications this Jan. 11. The program will initially reopen for first-time borrowers, and for second-time (aka "second draw") borrowers application processing to begin on Jan. 13.
— Please see attached letter from Ms. Ellen Lord, Under Secretary for Acquisition and Sustainment, thanking industry for their commitment and focusing on maintaining the Defense Industrial Base. Also, please see the emails below which contain links to a short video from Secretary Esper, regarding them same.