---
kind: "section"
citation: "49 C.F.R. § 1.86"
title: "49"
number: "1.86"
heading: "The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/49/1.86"
---

# §1.86. The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration.


Is responsible for:

- (a) Managing program and regulatory activities, including administering laws and promulgating and enforcing regulations on safety matters relating to motor carrier safety;
- (b) Carrying out motor carrier registration and authority to regulate household goods transportation;
- (c) Developing strategies for improving commercial motor vehicle, operator, and carrier safety and administering grants to implement these strategies;
- (d) Inspecting records and equipment of commercial motor carriers, and investigating accidents and reporting violations of motor carrier safety regulations;
- (e) Carrying out research, development, and technology transfer activities to promote safety of operation and equipment of motor vehicles for the motor carrier transportation program; and
- (f) Carrying out an effective communications and outreach program which includes providing relevant safety data to the public.

## Notes

### Authority

Authority: 49 U.S.C. 322.

### Source

Source: 81 FR 19819, Apr. 5, 2016, unless otherwise noted.