---
kind: "unit"
title: "49"
title_heading: "Transportation"
key: "subtB/chIII/subchB/part396"
level: "part"
label: "Part 396"
heading: "Inspection, Repair, and Maintenance"
release: "ecfr-current"
date: "2026-08-27"
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/49/subtB-chIII-subchB-part396"
sections_count: 14
---

# Part 396 — Inspection, Repair, and Maintenance

Title 49 C.F.R. — Transportation › Subtitle B — Other Regulations Relating to Transportation › Chapter III — Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, Department of Transportation › Subchapter B — Federal Motor Carrier Safety Regulations

## Sections

- [§396.1. Scope.](/cfr/49/396.1.md)
- [§396.3. Inspection, repair, and maintenance.](/cfr/49/396.3.md)
- [§396.5. Lubrication.](/cfr/49/396.5.md)
- [§396.7. Unsafe operations forbidden.](/cfr/49/396.7.md)
- [§396.9. Inspection of motor vehicles and intermodal equipment in operation.](/cfr/49/396.9.md)
- [§396.11. Driver vehicle inspection report(s).](/cfr/49/396.11.md)
- [§396.12. Procedures for intermodal equipment providers to accept reports required by § 390.42(b) of this chapter.](/cfr/49/396.12.md)
- [§396.13. Driver inspection.](/cfr/49/396.13.md)
- [§396.15. Driveaway-towaway operations and inspections.](/cfr/49/396.15.md)
- [§396.17. Periodic inspection.](/cfr/49/396.17.md)
- [§396.19. Inspector qualifications.](/cfr/49/396.19.md)
- [§396.21. Periodic inspection recordkeeping requirements.](/cfr/49/396.21.md)
- [§396.23. Equivalent to periodic inspection.](/cfr/49/396.23.md)
- [§396.25. Qualifications of brake inspectors.](/cfr/49/396.25.md)