The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) extends the Emergency Declaration for the state of Tennessee including an Hours of Service Waiver in response to tornadoes, high winds, heavy rains, and flooding.

On March 7, Saudi Arabia unsheathed a new oil market weapon: lower oil prices. With steep cuts in Saudi Aramco’s official selling prices (OSPs) for crude oil sales and with Vienna Alliance production restraint now eliminated after the collapse of Saudi and Russian talks on March 6, Saudi Arabia has made its intentions clear to sell as much oil as its customers want to buy, up to its capacity of 12 million barrels per day (MMb/d).

In response to the outbreak of COVID-19 and the need for expedient transportation of supplies and services, the federal government has published several guidance documents and enforcement discretion notices. The guidance and discretion documents are summarized below with hyperlinks to the official publications.