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Dec 20, 2008

Anti-Truck Groups * USA - Ignore Safety Record of New HOS Rules

Washington,DC,USA -PR Newswire (press release - New York,NY) -Dec. 19, 2008: -- A petition that asks the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) to reconsider some of the details of the truck drivers' Hours of Service (HOS) rules is ill-advised and raises no new substantive safety issues... A number of anti-truck groups and their allies yesterday asked the FMCSA to reconsider the HOS rules, which have been proven safe in both scientific research and in actual on-road operations over the last four years on American highways, where crash data shows the trucking industry is safer than it has ever been... Whatever HOS rules are in force, their effectiveness will be diminished if drivers do not comply with them. That is why yesterday, as part of the trucking industry's ongoing safety efforts, ATA President and CEO Bill Graves asked the federal Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and Secretary of Transportation Mary Peters to approve new regulations that will require the use of Electronic On-Board Recorders (EOBRs) for motor carriers with a history of failing to comply with Hours of Service rules... By automatically creating an electronic record of the vehicle's travel, EOBRs improve compliance with Hours of Service rules...


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