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Jun 7, 2014

TRUCKING INDUSTRY * USA: HOS' debates

* DC - Cap on truckers’ 70-hour work week may be eased by Senate

Washington,DC,USA -Bloomberg News, by Jeff Plungis -Jun 5, 2014: -- The 70-hour cap on a U.S. trucker’s workweek has a chance of being eased by Congress, undoing the result of a 15-year effort to reduce highway fatalities caused by drowsy long-haul drivers... The main federal regulation requiring truckers to take an extended break after reaching weekly time limits would be suspended under an amendment passed today in the Senate Appropriations Committee. The regulation had taken effect in July 2013 and immediately drew criticism from the industry... The suspension, which would restore the industry’s 82-hour “workweek,” is intended to force the Transportation Department to address some of the regulation’s fallout, said Kevin Kelly, a spokesman for Senator Susan Collins, the Maine Republican sponsoring the amendment. The industry has said that the rule’s requirements for scheduling rest breaks at night forced more trucks onto the road during the daytime when traffic is most congested... The regulations took effect after more than 15 years of legal wrangling over sleep science, the role of fatigue in truck crashes, and how the costs of hiring more drivers to deliver freight would ripple through the economy... Truck crashes caused 3,912 fatalities in 2012, and the fatal-crash rate increased each year from 2009 through 2012, reversing a five-year trend. The hours-of-service regulation was expected to prevent 1,400 truck crashes a year, saving 19 lives and avoiding 560 injuries...

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