HOS - USA - Revised hours-of-service regs started Oct. 1
USA - Land Line Magazine - Oct 2005: -- In spite of petitions for reconsideration, the revised hours of service went into effect Oct. 1... Along with that implementation, truckers will now have to navigate changes to the sleeper-berth provision to meet the 10-hour off-duty requirement... Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administrator Annette Sandberg announced the revised hours-of-service regulations Aug. 19... In the revised rules, off-duty time can be split four different ways:
- 10 consecutive hours of sleeper-berth time;
- 10 consecutive hours of off-duty time;
- A combination of 10 consecutive hours of sleeper-berth and off-duty time; or
- 10 hours of off-duty time by combining two separate periods of sleeper-berth or off-duty time that total at least 10 hours.
As of Oct. 1, if truckers choose to the fourth option, one period must be at least eight consecutive hours in the sleeper berth... The second period must be at least two, but less than 10, in the sleeper berth, off-duty time or both. The second period may be taken either in or out of the sleeper berth. However, the trick here is the two-hour portion of the split does not stop the 14-hour on-duty clock... These changes to the hours-of-service regulations have generated three major petitions asking that the regs be reconsidered and further revised... And, ATA was scrambling at the last minute, asking Congress for a delay in the implementation of the rules, but that did not happen...
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