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Dec 12, 2014

TRUCKERS' HOURS OF SERVICE * USA

* DC - Spending bill includes trucker changes
Washington,DC,USA -The Hill, by Keith Laing -10 Dec 2014: -- A move to allow truck drivers to work more overnight shifts is currently included in the government funding bill that was released Monday evening by Congress, over the objection of safety groups who argued the changes would make roads less safe... The provision to ease federal trucker scheduling regulations designed to prevent driver fatigue was inserted into the $1.014 trillion “cromnibus” funding legislation that was unveiled this week to prevent a government shutdown by Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) at the behest of trucking industry groups. .. Victims of accidents that have involved truck drivers said after the funding legislation was revealed that Collins was prioritizing trucking companies over the safety of other drivers on U.S. roads... Congress is expected to complete work this week on the government appropriations package, which includes a large number of policy riders in addition to the trucking changes, before they break for the holidays. Current funding expires on Dec. 11...


* DC - Trucking may face chaos, confusion in wake of restart suspension
Washington,DC,USA -The Trucker, by LYNDON FINNEY -10 Dec 2014: -- The trucking industry, while for the most part happy that Congress appears ready to suspend the current 34-hour restart provision, at the same time faces a period of probable chaos and confusion as the industry adapts to a rule that hasn’t been in effect for almost 18 months... If the 34-hour restart provision is suspended, how will the industry go about training truckers and inspectors who’ve never worked under the pre-July 1, 2013, rule?...


* Maryland - CVSA’s Keppler: Suspension of restart will lead to serious enforcement issues

Greenbelt,MD,USA -The Trucker, By LYNDON FINNEY -10 Dec 2014: -- There could easily be issues with data quality in addition to enforcement consistency and uniformity in the wake of Congress passing, and President Barack Obama signing, the appropriations bill that includes language to suspend the current 34-hour restart provision of the Hours of Service rule, says Stephen Keppler, executive director of the Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance (CVSA)... Keppler says because states have different processes for incorporating federal rules into state rules, suspension of the 34-hour restart provision could result in non-uniform application of the rule from state to state... First and foremost, the public tends to forget that the state-employed commercial vehicle enforcement officers only enforce state law, not federal law, Keppler said...

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