S. 1696 119th Congress Senate

DRIVE Act

Official title: A bill to prohibit the Administrator of the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration from issuing a rule or promulgating a regulation requiring certain comm… Show full official titleShow less

Introduced: May 8, 2025 Introduced by: Steve Daines Republican · Montana See on congress.gov

Transportation and Public Works

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May 8, 2025

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.

May 8, 2025

Introduced in Senate

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Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.

Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Deregulating Restrictions on Interstate Vehicles and Eighteen-wheelers Act or the DRIVE Act

This bill prohibits the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) from issuing any rule or regulation to require a commercial motor vehicle to be equipped with a speed limiting device set to a maximum speed. The FMCSA issued an advance notice of supplemental proposed rulemaking on this subject on May 4, 2022.

A commercial motor vehicle includes a vehicle operating in interstate commerce that (1) has a gross vehicle weight of 10,001 pounds or more, (2) is designed or used to transport more than 8 passengers for compensation, (3) is designed or used to transport more than 15 passengers and is not used to transport passengers for compensation, or (4) is used to transport certain quantities of hazardous materials.

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Committees of jurisdiction 1

Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee
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Lobbying activity 9

Registered lobbyists who named this bill in their disclosure filings. Source: federal Lobbying Disclosure Act filings.

OWNER-OPERATOR INDEPENDENT DRIVERS ASSOCIATION
for OWNER-OPERATOR INDEPENDENT DRIVERS ASSOCIATION · Missouri · 3rd Quarter 2026 (July 1 - Sep 30)
OWNER-OPERATOR INDEPENDENT DRIVERS ASSOCIATION
for OWNER-OPERATOR INDEPENDENT DRIVERS ASSOCIATION · Missouri · 2nd Quarter 2026 (Apr 1 - June 30)
OWNER-OPERATOR INDEPENDENT DRIVERS ASSOCIATION
for OWNER-OPERATOR INDEPENDENT DRIVERS ASSOCIATION · Missouri · 1st Quarter 2026 (Jan 1 - Mar 31)
ELITE STRATEGIC SERVICES
for NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF SMALL TRUCKING COMPANIES · Tennessee · 1st Quarter 2026 (Jan 1 - Mar 31)
OWNER-OPERATOR INDEPENDENT DRIVERS ASSOCIATION
for OWNER-OPERATOR INDEPENDENT DRIVERS ASSOCIATION · Missouri · 4th Quarter 2025 (Oct 1 - Dec 31)
ELITE STRATEGIC SERVICES
for NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF SMALL TRUCKING COMPANIES · Tennessee · 4th Quarter 2025 (Oct 1 - Dec 31)

Bodies those filers lobbied

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
9 filings
SENATE
9 filings
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
8 filings
Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration
8 filings
Transportation, Dept of (DOT)
8 filings
Federal Highway Administration (FHA)
5 filings
Homeland Security, Dept of (DHS)
5 filings
Labor, Dept of (DOL)
5 filings

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