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Comments - USA - Truckers' HOS deja vu
USA -Fleet Owner, by BY JIM MELE -Sep 1, 2005 :-/ You have to give the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration credit — they're good at defying expectations. The courts overturned their 2003 hours-of-service rules on the grounds that FMCSA hadn't sufficiently considered the impact on the health of drivers. Driver health was one on the items Congress required FMSCA to study when it ordered the agency to revise the 60-year-old work rules. Groups opposed to the 2003 HOS rulemaking convinced the courts that the agency had failed to meet that requirement... My guess is that by the time you read this, HOS will again be an issue for the courts. HOS is certainly a complex issue, and FMCSA deserves credit for its 2003 plan since it seemed to have struck a good balance between safety and productivity. But the agency's subsequent responses to the court challenge and ruling have been far less praiseworthy. Instead of settling the issue, they have once again delivered more uncertainty over the basic work rules of the industry...
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