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HOS DEBATE * USA & Europe
* USA / DC - LaHood asked Senator Ayotte left alone HOS changes
-Fleet Owner, by Deborah Whistler -Oct 25, 2011: -- Secretary of Transportation, Ray LaHood, has asked Sen. Kelly Ayotte (R-NH) to withdraw her amendment to the 2012 Transportation Appropriations Bill that would block the Obama Administration from implementing its proposed changes for hours-of-service rules for commercial truck drivers... FMCSA's proposed changes would reduce a driver's maximum daily driving time from 11 hours to 10 hours and reduce the on-duty "work day" from 14 hours to 13 hours... The proposed rule change also would impose new restrictions on the minimum 34-hour “restart,” which allows drivers to work more weekly hours if they take 34 consecutive hours off, “making use of the minimum period impossible,” the Senator said. “The changes also fail to account for delays in picking up cargo, known as detention time," according to Ayotte...
* Europe - Truckers deal with strict HOS regs
Gothenburg,Sweden -Fleet Owner -Oct 27, 2011: -- While potential changes, or non-changes, to U.S. driver hours-of-service regulations are likely to be met with frustration and possibly lawsuits, European truck drivers work under very strict European Union (EU) hours-of-service (HOS) rules that go several steps further than anything in the U.S... Under current European law, any driver operating a 12 ton or higher vehicle is subject to the laws, which limit driving to 9 hours per day, 56 in a week, and 90 over a two-week period. Twice a week, driving time can be extended to 10 hours... In addition, there are mandatory 45-minute break periods for each 4.5 hours of driving, and a new 4.5-hour period does not begin until a full 45 minutes of rest time has been accomplished... The law does allow, however, for that break period to be split up in increments, providing that the first break is 15 minutes and the second break period 30 minutes. Breaks of less than 15 minutes do not count... There is also a daily 11-hour rest period mandated, and that too is particularly strict... For truckers and fleet managers alike in Sweden, though, the hour restrictions are really just a fact of life...
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