The penalty for a driver who violates an out-of-service order is about to get $1,000 more expensive, and that’s just one example of a new civil 
penalty schedule for violations of federal trucking regulations.
The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration on Friday published the adjusted schedule in the Federal Register. The inflation-based increases are the first since 2007 for many of the violations, and some have not been changed since 2003, the notice says.