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HOS - USA - Sleep experts weigh in on
USA -Tleet Owner, by Terrence Nguyen -Aug 21, 2006: -- Circadian Technologies, a business consulting firm specializing in sleep patterns, is looking for consensus from sleep experts and over-the-road truckers on how the hours-of-service (HOS) rule could be changed... OOIDA and CTA filed a lawsuit arguing that the current split sleeper berth provision is impractical and advocated that FMCSA revert back to the more-flexible provision found in the 2003 rule for team drivers. The trucking groups said drivers preferred to be able to have shorter, more frequent rest periods... FMCSA argued that research doesn’t support OOIDA’s position as an effective alternative to a single extended rest period called for by the current rule... “[FMCSA’s] justification is very weak,” Martin Moore-Ede, founder of Circadian Technologies said. “It’s based on studies done long before the current rules. They said that split sleep is bad because studies have shown that people sleeping only four hours have health problems. You can’t take science that says sleeping four to five hours a day is bad for your health and conclude you can’t have split sleep periods of four hours one period plus six hours another period [on the same day].”... The study also documents impractical work patterns that over-the-road truckers engage in to comply with the current rules... “We’re seeing truckers around the country who are wondering who made up these crazy rules,” Moore-Ede said. “The truckers say no one could sleep on them and in reality they’re right. Some of the situations the rules force you into are quite absurd—you can’t take a nap when you’re tired otherwise you’ll run out of the 14-hour on-duty time.”...
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