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Dec 15, 2014

TRUCKERS' HOURS of SERVICE * USA

* Virginia - Trillion dollar spending bill could affect truckers' resting time 

Roanoke,VA,USA -WDBJ7 Anchor, by Nadia Singh -Dec 12, 2014: -- Congress is set to roll back safety rules aimed at ensuring that truck drivers get enough rest... It's part of a recently passed spending bill to keep the government running until next September, where non-budget items are often included as riders... The provision suspends the current rest regulations while a study is done on the number of trucks on the road... Under the change, truckers could work as many as 82 hours a week. But, both truckers and drivers are concerned about safety... The bill would keep the government operating until next September. It also allows truckers to work up to 82 hours a week; 12 more than the current 70 hour limit... Some truck drivers are concerned... This dispute pits the trucking industry against the Teamsters Union, which represents drivers, and safety groups... Both sides are generous contributors to federal lawmakers... Employees of trucking companies contributed over $7 million for the 2014 elections, while the Teamsters gave nearly $2 million in contributions...


* Virginia - Trucking thanks Congress for including common sense hours fix in omnibus

Arlington,VA,USA -PRNewswire-USNewswire -Dec. 13, 2014: -- Today, American Trucking Associations thanked Congress – particularly Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) – for the common sense fix to two unjustified provisions of the current hours-of-service restart rules in this year's omnibus spending bill... The Collins Amendment language, which was adopted by a strong bipartisan vote of the Senate Appropriations Committee, suspends the restriction on the use of the so-called 34-hour restart that requires drivers to take two consecutive periods of 1am to 5am off during the restart, thus pushing them into riskier daytime driving and then lifts the restriction on using the restart more than once every 168 hours, or one week...

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