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Apr 25, 2016

TRUCKERS' HOS * USA: DEBATES

* DC - Appropriators back transportation spending bill with trucking fix

-- The Senate Appropriations Committee easily advanced a transportation spending bill on Thursday containing a trucking provision safety advocates have been pushing against this week... The spending bill contains a technical fix to a drafting error made in last year's government spending bill. A provision in that bill said proposed changes to the hours of service rule for truck drivers — which were enacted in 2013 but later suspended — cannot be implemented until the DOT proves the regulation would improve driver health and safety... But legislators left out essential language clarifying what would happen if the agency fails to find that the rule is beneficial for drivers, which would force the DOT to revert to rules put in place more than a decade ago... The bill fixes the issue and caps the time truck drivers can spend behind the wheel or on duty at 73 hours per week... Safety advocates have blasted the new cap, saying it will encourage longer workweeks for truck drivers; they say the trucking industry lobbied heavily for the change... 
(Getty Images)   --  Washington, DC, USA - The Hill, by Melanie Zanona - 21 April 2016

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