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HOUR of SERVICE * USA - OOIDA urging truckers to follow current HoS rules
Until official action taken
Grain Valley,Mo,USA -Truck News (CAN), by Adam Ledlow -26 July 2007: -- Truckers in the US will face a new Hours-of-Service regulation due to a ruling by a US Court of Appeals that eliminates the 34-hour restart and 11-hour driving limit... However, the Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association (OOIDA) said that until the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) takes some sort of official action, truckers should continue operating under the 11-hour driving rule and utilizing the 34-hour restart if needed... OOIDA is reviewing the complete ruling to determine options for further actions on the issue...
* American Trucking Associations to challenge court's revision to HoS rules
Arlington,Va,USA -Truck News (CAN), by Adam Ledlow -26 July 2007: -- The American Trucking Associations today said it will seek a stay from the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia to keep the current rules governing truck drivers' work and rest periods in place until the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) provides the court with explanations for two of the rules provisions... The United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia today remanded the Hours-of-Service (HOS) rules to FMCSA, ruling that the agency must provide better explanations of its justifications for adopting the 11-hour drive time and 34-hour restart provisions of the rule. The rest of the rules remain in place, and FMCSA and other parties have 45 days to petition for reconsideration...
* Court Strikes Down Longer Hours for Truckers
Washington,DC,USA -The New York Times (NY,USA), by STEPHEN LABATON -July 24, 2007: -- ... In a regulatory impact analysis accompanying the 2005 changes, the agency concluded that the economic costs to the industry of tightening the hours of service rules, as consumer groups had proposed, outweighed the safety benefits... But the court said today that analysis was flawed. The opinion was written by Judge Merrick B. Garland and signed by Chief Judge Douglas H. Ginsburg and Judge Karen Lecraft Henderson... Safety groups hailed Tuesday’s ruling and said the court had confirmed their view that the agency had failed to adequately justify relaxing the rules...
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