* DC - Both, Federal Agencies & Trucking Industry say it's imperative to protecting public safety
-- But as you would expect, there is disagreement over the means to achieve this end...
While the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration insists that the hours-of-service final rule creates a safer transportation environment, industry leaders argue that the rule creates additional highway hazards... As part of the restart study, the agency compared — over five months — fatigue levels, alertness and crash rates of drivers abiding by the 34-hour restart provision against drivers not controlled by the provision... Conversely, the American Transportation Research Institute conducted an investigation of the 34-hour provision and found strikingly different results.
ATRI found that abiding by the restart provision, truck traffic shifted from nighttime to the more congested daytime and from weekends to weekdays. By increasing traffic exposure during weekday travel time, more truck crashes resulted, directly contradicting FMCSA’s stated objective... Additionally, an Owner-Operator Independent Driver Association survey found that 46% of respondents felt more fatigued while operating under the provision... OOIDA found 65% of drivers received less income while operating under the rule...
Washington, DC, USA - Transport Topics, by Mike Lewellyn - 22 Feb 2016Labels: HOS rules, trucking industry news USA
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