[Federal Register Volume 78, Number 85 (Thursday, May 2, 2013)]
[Notices]
[Pages 25782-25783]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2013-10276]


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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration


Guidance on FMCSA's Publication: Your Rights and Responsibilities 
When You Move

AGENCY: Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA), DOT.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: FMCSA provides a streamlined and more user-friendly

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version of its Your Rights and Responsibilities When You Move consumer 
protection publication. Household goods motor carriers (movers) and 
brokers may provide this document to individual shippers in lieu of the 
longer version currently in use.

DATES: This guidance is effective as of May 2, 2013.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. Brodie Mack, FMCSA Household Goods 
Enforcement and Compliance Team Leader, Federal Motor Carrier Safety 
Administration, 1200 New Jersey Ave. SE., Washington, DC 20590-0001, 
(202) 366-8045.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: May marks the start of the summer moving 
season. Thousands of households nationwide will be contemplating or 
arranging for the interstate transportation of household goods. 
Although this time is exciting for many households, it can also be a 
stressful time during which unscrupulous movers and brokers attempt to 
take advantage of individuals' vulnerabilities and lack of experience.
    To better inform individual households of their rights and 
responsibilities when planning an interstate move and help prevent them 
from becoming victims of moving fraud, FMCSA makes consumer protection 
information available to the public on its Web site: 
www.protectyourmove.gov. FMCSA also requires all interstate household 
goods movers and brokers to provide prospective customers with a copy 
of or an electronic link to two consumer protection publications: Ready 
to Move?--Tips for a Successful Interstate Move and Your Rights and 
Responsibilities When You Move (see 49 CFR 375.213).
    Effective today, FMCSA makes available a streamlined and more user-
friendly version of Your Rights and Responsibilities When You Move at 
http://www.protectyourmove.gov/consumer/awareness/rights/rights.htm. 
Movers and brokers may elect to use either the longer version currently 
in use (see 49 CFR part 375, Appendix A) or the new streamlined version 
made available today on FMCSA's Web site. FMCSA intends to publish a 
Federal Register notice of proposed rulemaking at a later date 
soliciting comments on the new streamlined Your Rights and 
Responsibilities When You Move booklet. In the interim, and until FMCSA 
provides further notice, movers and brokers may provide prospective 
customers with either version in accordance with today's guidance. 
FMCSA will not take enforcement action against household goods motor 
carriers and brokers that distribute or link to the streamlined version 
in lieu of the longer version, so long as they otherwise comply with 
the requirements of 49 CFR 375.213.

    Issued under the authority of delegation in 49 CFR 1.87: April 
23, 2013.
Anne S. Ferro,
Administrator.
[FR Doc. 2013-10276 Filed 5-1-13; 8:45 am]
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