* Arkansas - State's truckers back call for agency changes
-- Sen. Deb Fisher, R-Nebraska, pointed toward two of the industry's specific issues during her opening comments, outlining concerns within both the hours of service rule and the compliance, safety accountability program. Both have been contentious topics since their introduction for trucking companies... Fisher highlighted the agency's changes to the 34-hour restart restrictions during the hearing... This provision requires drivers to be off duty for 34 hours, including two nighttime periods from 1-5 a.m., before they can begin a new work week... Congress suspended one provision, which required breaks on consecutive nights between 1 a.m. and 5 a.m. as part of a driver's 34-hour restart, until Sept. 30... Opponents of the suspended rule have indicated rest periods pushed drivers onto the road during busy morning commute times... "It does put a lot of trucks out on the road at the same time, 5 a.m., which also happens to be in that push time when a lot of people are commuting to work," Decker said. "So all of a sudden you've taken the interstate system that's under stress and pressure and deteriorating right now, and you've put this extra stress and pressure out there. More accidents are going to happen" ... Chris Hart, acting chairman of the National Transportation Safety Board, also told citing a 2006 Transportation Department study, said as much as 24 percent of fatal crashes involved moderate to severe drowsiness...
(Photo from Bloomberg, by Patrick T. Fallon: Trucks transporting A.P. Moeller-Maersk A/S branded containers wait in line with other trucks in this aerial photograph taken above the Port of Los Angeles in Los Angeles, California, U.S., on Wednesday, Feb. 18, 2015)
ARK, USA - Arkansas On Line, by Robbie Neiswanger - March 9, 2015Labels: rules and regulations
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