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HOS - USA - FMCSA responds to hours challenges
USA -eTrucker, by Jill Dunn -9 Sept 2006: -- Arguments made by Public Citizen and the Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association against the current hours-of-service rule are hollow, the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration stated in its response to the groups’ petitions... The agency filed its response in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia in August... Public Citizen’s petition should be denied because regulators properly measured the risk of driving 11 hours instead of 10, the FMCSA stated. “Even if there is an increased risk associated with driving 11 hours, the costs of imposing a 10-hour limit far outweigh the safety benefits,” the FMCSA stated... Moreover, evidence indicates the 34-hour recovery period is sufficient, the agency argued. Major improvements in truck design and more opportunity for rest under the new rule also influenced the agency’s decision, the FMCSA stated... OOIDA’s petition is without merit because loading and unloading time already was taken into account and discussed in the rule’s preamble, the agency stated...
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