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HOS * USA - Hours, safety, and sense
"We urge the agency to draft a rule based on science instead of industry politics - a rule that will protect truck drivers and those of us whoshare the road with them. To do otherwise is the height of insanity." ...
USA -Fleet Owner, by Skilcarr -14 Dec 2007: -- ... “FMCSA is continuing to allow large trucks to roll like time bombs on our highways,” said Joan Claybrook, president of Public Citizen, in a press release responding to the agency’s decision. “With its action today, the administration has shown that it is willing to risk carnage on the highways to boost the bottom line for big corporations. We urge the agency to draft a rule based on science instead of industry politics – a rule that will protect truck drivers and those of us who share the road with them. To do otherwise is the height of insanity”... Under the old rules, a driver looked at a 15-hour workday that could be indefinitely extended by logging breaks. Now, they work a 14-hour day – one hour shorter than before – and the clock CANNOT be stopped. Drivers used to face five hours of non-driving on-duty time – now they only face three. They used to get just eight hours off; now they get 10, a full two hours more. But by just adding one extra hour of drive time, going from 10 to 11, the so-called safety groups are willing to throw the whole smash out and go back to the old rules – rules created way back in 1933, when they didn’t even conduct sleep studies, much less envision global supply chains... Many drivers aren’t happy with the revised rules because they feel they can’t take a break: that with the clock running, they need to drive or risk losing pay if they stop for a rest break. FMCSA’s John Hill is aware of this – I asked him about it and he said the agency would address it once they get some sort of finality to the basic HOS rules. “We must have a final framework in place before we start looking at breaks,” he told me..-. (Video from YouTube, by LEDRavecom -June 20, 2007 - Fuel Tanker Fire: Gasoline/Diesel tanker truck overturns and burns on Hwy 81 in Belleville, KS)
* Hours of Service Decision
USA -Life on the Roads, by Wayne Weisser -Dec 13, 2007: -- Looks like we’re stuck with the HOS rules as they are right now. 11 on 10 off with a 34 hour restart. If I’m out here working, I want to be working instead of waiting for hours in a truck stop!... I’m a little confused. If the Court decision isn’t until the 27th, what’s the FMCSA coming out with their “interim final rule” now for?... The sweatshop conditions until recently had nothing to do with driving. What’s wrong with the driving rule now is that I have to finish my 11 hours of driving within 14 hours. If you stop it has to be under three hours or over 8 hours or not at all. That’s the problem with the newer rules. When my wife was driving with me, the driver had to drive their 11 hours straight even though there was a rested driver sitting right behind them. That was nuts! And a lot of team loads don’t have time for a long break because one driver is tired...
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