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Oct 3, 2015

HOS REGULATIONS * USA:Ttruck-driver 'restart' study

* DC - USA regulators start final stage of truck-driver 'restart' study

-- U.S. researchers are ready to crunch thousands of days worth of data collected from more than 220 truck drivers to determine how certain hours-of-service rules affect fatigue, health and safety... The data was collected this year for a congressionally mandated study of the impact of the revised restart provisions of the 2013 version of regulations that set daily and weekly work schedules for truckers... Congress suspended the 2013 changes to the restart provisions last December after trucking groups complained regulators didn’t complete such a study when developing the rules. The 2013 rules required truck drivers to include two consecutive 1 a.m. to 5 a.m. periods in any restart before beginning a new work week, a change broadly opposed by trucking interests... The agency said it is working to complete the report and submit it to the Department of Transportation Inspector General by the end of the year. An FMCSA official last month told the Intermodal Association of North America the report would go to Congress “by February” ... That means the current rules, which allow a truck driver to restart his or her weekly duty clock after 34 hours off-duty time, will remain in place throughout the fall peak season, at the least... 
Washington, DC, USA - JOC, by William B. Cassidy - Oct 01, 2015

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