Hours of Service (HOS) Rules, Regulations
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Massive truck-lobbying effort aimed at Capitol Hill
In the face of pending legislation and advocacy issues that could dramatically raise transportation and supply chain costs, more than 10 industry associations have agreed to participate in a pro-trucking “Washington fly-in” on Feb. 1. ...
Pace of economic recovery quickening
As 2012 approaches, some key indicators strongly suggest the U.S. economic recovery is at last truly picking up speed. For starters, new U.S. claims for unemployment benefits fell to a 3-1/2 year low last week, according to the Dept. of Labor’s (DOL) Unemployment Insurance Weekly Claims Report released today...
Hooking up
New England-based Braun's Express is running battery-powered auxiliary power units (APUs) in its long-haul trucks and has them fitted for shore power...
Congressmen: Don’t mess with HOS
Four Republican congressmen — including Rep. John Mica (R-Fla.), chairman of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee — sent a strongly worded letter to President Barack Obama warning that any changes to truck driver hours of service would be met with congressional intervention...
HOS proposals more politics than policy: NPTC
NPTC general counsel Richard (Rick) P. Schweitzer told Fleet Owner that the new HOS proposals - resulting from settlement of the third lawsuit by Public Citizen, the Teamsters and others - are “driven more by politics than policy or research."...
Truck-specific navigation adds HOS logs, police speed trap warnings
LOUISVILLE, KY. A new navigation system from Cobra Electronics Corp. has been designed specifically for the professional truck driver with truck routing and points-of-interest pertinent to drivers...
ATA, sleep expert claim FMCSA “misapplied” HOS findings
The American Trucking Assns. (ATA) has stated that one of the researchers who worked directly on the primary scientific studies that the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) used to support the changes the agency is proposing for current hours-of-service (HOS) rules for truck drivers “misapplied” those findings...
FMCSA leaning to 10-hour limit on truck drivers behind the wheel
CRYSTAL CITY, VA. The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) is now in favor of limiting truck drivers to just 10 hours behind the wheel under its hours of service (HOS) reform proposals...
ATA: FMCSA ignoring real-world data on HOS
The American Trucking Assns. (ATA) has continued its criticism of the U.S. Dept. of Transportation’s proposed hours-of-service (HOS) regulations, released publicly on Dec. 23, 2010...
DOT punts on Hours-of-Service rules
Responding to a court-imposed deadline, this morning the Dept. of Transportation's Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration issued a new proposal to revise hours-of-service (HOS) rules or commercial truck drivers that would make only minor changes to the existing “restart” provisions and avoids answering —for now anyway— the highly contentious question of whether drivers should be held to 10 or 11 hours of daily driving time...
Teamsters, others take on FMCSA over HOS
During the first of four “listening sessions” on the Driver Hours of Service (HOS) regulation held by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration earlier this week, LaMont Byrd, director of the Teamsters’ Health and Safety Department, reminded FMCSA that the union continues to oppose the new regulation, particularly the provision thath allows drivers to return to work after only 34 hours off duty...
First FMCSA ”listening session” hears HOS pros, cons
ARLINGTON, VA. Motor carriers, truck drivers, safety groups, and other interested parties presented their critiques of the current hours of service (HOS) regulations to a panel of Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) officials here yesterday. The meeting was the first of four “listening sessions” to be held by the agency as it begins its third effort in 10 years to reform the work rules governing trucking operations in the U.S. ...
FMCSA listening on HOS rules
Looking for public comments and input on hours-of-service (HOS) rules, the U.S. Dept. of Transportation’s Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) has announced a series of public “listening sessions” for the end of the month...
HOS and electronic logs: fleets hold lead
may be back to “go” for the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) and the Hours of Service (HOS) rules that would have required the use of electronic logs for some carriers,. But many fleets have been moving ahead to take full advantage of the benefits EOBRs (electronic onboard recorders) can deliver anyway—whether a regulation will mandate the use of EOBRs with electronic logging capability or not...
Ferro gets committee nod to head FMCSA
The U.S. Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee has voted to forward the nomination of Anne Ferro to be Administrator of the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration to the full U.S. Senate...
Concerns build over HOS reform
The Federal Motor Carriers Administration’s (FMCSA) new goal of “completely re-writing” hours of service (HOS) regulations within two years is eliciting strong reaction from trucking ...
