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HOS DEBATE * USA - Shippers Urge Congress to Block Driver Rule Change
Cutting trucker hours could increase shipping costs 10 percent, NASSTRAC says
Washington,DC,USA -The Journal of Commerce, by William B. Cassidy -Sep 30, 2011: -- The battle over proposed changes to truck driver hours of service escalated on Capitol Hill this week as a group of shipping executives called on key members of Congress to oppose shortening the time truckers may drive each day... Nearly 20 executives from businesses that rely on trucking services visited House and Senate Republicans and Democrats Sept. 27 and 28 to argue against changes to the work hour rules they said could raise their costs as much as 10 percent... The shippers, members of NASSTRAC, visited Capitol Hill shortly after Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Chairman John Mica, R-Fla., and his subcommittee chairs asked President Obama to drop the proposed changes... The FMCSA is scheduled to release its final hours of service rule in October...
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posted by Unknown @ 3:57 PM
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Imagine the parking at the truck stops? So many bad things if this happens. The price of everything will go through the roof.
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