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Dec 10, 2014

HOS * USA: Foxx's letter - ATA & OOIDA's

* DC - DOT chief Foxx asks lawmakers not to suspend 34-hour restart

Washington,DC,USA -The Trucker News Services -5 Dec 2014: -- Transportation Secretary, Anthony Foxx, Thursday sent a strongly-worded letter to several members of the Senate and House Appropriations committees asking them not to include language suspending the 34-hour restart provision of the Hours of Service rule... Secretary Foxx told lawmakers in the letter, he was seriously concerned that any suspension of the 34-hour restart would put lives at risk as it would increase the maximum allowable work limits for truck drivers from an average of 70 hours per week to over 82... Although he didn’t say, it is quite possible the letter was in response to news reports Wednesday that said Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, would re-introduce language suspending the restart in the appropriations bill that would keep the federal government in operation after Dec. 11...
* DC - ATA, OOIDA urge suspension of 34-hour restart 

Arlington,VA & Grain Valley,MO, USA -The Trucker News Services -8 Dec 2014: -- Two trucking associations that often have opposite opinions about issue affecting the trucking industry, Monday called for Congress to include in any omnibus appropriations bill legislation to suspend the current 34-hour restart... Todd Spencer, OOIDA executive vice president, said the association considers the claim made by those opposed to Sen. Susan Collins’ amendment to suspend the 34-hour restart rule saying truckers will otherwise work 80 hours or more per week to be a misleading scare tactic... Spencer pointed to a survey by the OOIDA Foundation completed last year in which about 46 percent of respondents reported feeling more fatigued since the changes, and 65 percent said they receive less income. The report also says that the one 34-hour restart per week provision has caused 56 percent of the respondents to lose mileage and loads hauled per week. In comments, many respondents said they experience less time at home and increased stress.... 


* DC - Collins giving trucking early Christmas present, Claybrook says

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Washington,DC,USA -The Trucker News -8 Dec 2014: -- Four years ago during the Christmas season, the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration released its first draft of the new Hours of Service rule with a vastly different 34-hour restart provision, prompting American Trucking Associations President and CEO, Bill Graves, to remark that the FMCSA had just dropped three chunks of coal in trucking Christmas stocking... Now the tables have turned, says one well-known safety advocate... Safety advocate Joan Claybrook says if Congress suspends the current 34-hour restart provision, American’s will pay the bill in lost lives and horrific injuries... She was one of several speakers, including Rep. Jim McGovern, D-Maine, at the news conference held to encourage members of Congress to leave the restart provision intact, saying suspension of the provision would be a major change to federal truck safety regulations and dramatically increase the number of working and driving hours for truck drivers as well as repeal their two-day weekend off...

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