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Feb 23, 2016

DANGEROUS HOS RULE? * USA: A safe one, or highway hazards ?

* 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 2016

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Jun 18, 2013

ATRI: HOS restart, will cost $189 million a year * USA

* New York - Trucking sector braces for new rules 

NY,USA -AP/The WSJ, by Bob Sechler -June 17, 2013: -- Their drivers might be better rested, but the trucking sector is steeling itself for the worst... Pessimism abounds regarding new regulations set to kick in July 1 mandating increased rest periods for truckers behind the wheel. The industry appealed the regulations with oral arguments in March, but their appeal appears likely to be shot down... As a result, some industry executives have skipped right to the last part of the old maxim about hoping for the best but preparing for the worst... Among the other changes, drivers cannot drive more than eight consecutive hours without taking a 30 minute break, although they can still drive a maximum 11 hours a day. They also can’t work more than 70 hours in a seven-day period without taking a “restart period” of 34 consecutive off-duty hours, which must include two “night-rest” periods from 1 a.m.-5 a.m... Trucking companies contend the mandates could play havoc with scheduling and hurt productivity by putting extra limits on driver hours... John White, executive vice president for sales and marketing at long-haul trucking company U.S. Xpress Enterprises Inc., estimated his company already has spent “probably $100,000 minimum” to prepare for the new rules, including training for the bulk of its drivers and reprogramming of electronic log books. U.S. Xpress also has been pushing for price increases of 3%-4% as long-term contracts come up for renewal, he said, partly because of the so-called “hours-of-service” rules... 


* Virginia - HOS restart changes to cost industry $189 million a year, ATRI says: Expenses are in contrast to benefits forecast by FMCSA 

Arlington,VA, USA -Tranport Topics -17 June 2013: -- Upcoming restrictions to the 34-hour restart provision of the hours-of-service rule for truck drivers will cost the trucking industry $189 million annually — a $322 million difference from the $133 million benefit that the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration estimated when it wrote the new restrictions, according to a study released Monday... The American Transportation Research Institute study said FMCSA’s reliance on driver logs from carriers undergoing compliance reviews, in addition to the agency’s estimate that only 15% of drivers would be affected by the new restrictions, contributed to the grossly incorrect cost-benefit analysis...

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Feb 15, 2012

HOS RULES * USA

* DC - ATA Takes Anti-Fatigue Driver Work Rule to Court

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Washington,Columbia,USA -The Journal of Commerce Online, by William B. Cassidy -Feb 14, 2012: -- Trucking lobby says analyses behind rulemaking do not meet ‘legal standards’... The American Trucking Associations will file a petition challenging new final truck driver work rules in federal court, the trucking group said Tuesday... The ATA aims to overturn a provision in the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration’s new hours of service rules that would keep some drivers home longer between work weeks, cutting into the amount of time they can drive... The ATA will file a petition Tuesday asking the U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington to review and set aside the rules as being “arbitrary and capricious” ...

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Jan 26, 2012

Hours Of Service * USA

* DC - Public Citizen, FMCSA dismiss current HOS lawsuit

Washington,DC,USA -Land Line, by Jami Jones -Jan. 24, 2012: -- The latest skirmish in the hours-of-service war has drawn to a close. The parties in the latest lawsuit challenging the regulation have agreed to dismiss the lawsuit... In a joint motion to dismiss filed on Monday, Jan. 23, Public Citizen, Teamsters, Advocates for Highway Safety, Truck Safety Coalition and the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration agreed to dismiss the lawsuit... But that doesn’t necessarily mean HOS is in the clear... The reason for the dismissal is that the regulation being challenged in the lawsuit no longer exists... The changes made by FMCSA – altering 34-hour restart and mandating breaks – were enough to make the current lawsuit a moot point... With the dismissal, the only course of action left for the plaintiffs to take a run at the 11th hour of driving is to file suit again...

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Jan 17, 2012

FINAL HOS RULE * USA

* DC - FMCSA delays proposed final rule for Hours-of-Service wich is not gaining traction with retailers

Washington,DC,USA -Logistics Management, by Jeff Berman -October 31, 2011: -- Late last week, the Department of Transportation’s Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) said that its new Hours-of-Service (HOS) rule that was scheduled to be rolled out on Friday, October 28 has been pushed back...  The original deadline for the rule was July 26, FMCSA said it was adopting as final its interim final rule of Dec. 17, 2007. That allows drivers to drive 11 hours within a 15-hour work day with a 34-hour restart provision. Both provisions had been challenged in court by Public Citizen, Advocates for Highway Safety, unions and other groups on procedural grounds... If those proposals become law, many industry stakeholders contend that they collectively will reduce the amount of time carriers have to move freight and hinder available trucking capacity...  But not all politicians are against the rules, though. In a letter to President Obama last week, some Senators wrote that they support the proposed HOS rules...  “The National Transportation Safety Board has found that fatigue is the primary factor in 30 to 40 percent of large truck crashes,” the Senators wrote...

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Jan 9, 2012

HOS OFFENCE * UK

* Drivers' hours violations most common offence


London,EN,UK -Commercial Motors, by Chris Tindall -5 January 2012:  --  Drivers’ hours abuse tops the list of most common prosecutions by VOSA last year, according to its latest effectiveness report...  Despite falling by almost half compared with the level of convictions in 2008/09 there were still 2,106 cases reported for prosecution by the enforcement agency in England and Wales during 2010/11 and 2,057 convictions... There was a similar picture in Scotland, with 154 prosecutions and convictions for drivers’ hours violations...  Tachograph record infringements by hauliers is second in all three countries, with 1,121 convictions in England and Wales, followed by having no O-licence (270)... 

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HOS RULES * USA

* Indiana - FTR Says HOS Changes Make Truck Shortage 'Less Likely'. Says truck capacity will be "modestly tight" in 2012


Nashville,IN,USA -The Journal of Commerce Online, by William B. Cassidy -Jan 4, 2012: -- Limited changes in truck driver hours of service regulations make a severe trucking capacity shortage “much less likely” in 2012, FTR Associates said Tuesday... However, other factors, including other safety regulations and rising costs, will keep truck capacity “modestly” tight and put pressure on rates, the research group said... FTR’s Trucking Conditions Index rose slightly less than two points in November to 5.2. Any reading above zero indicates an adequate trucking environment... In a final rule released Dec. 22, The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration preserved the 11-hour daily driving limit while changing other provisions... Trucking groups and shippers argue changes to the 34-hour restart provision will reduce productivity, but those changes will not take effect until July 2013...

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Dec 28, 2011

New HOS Rule * USA

* Will Cause Delays for Manufacturers and Cost the EconomyH

Washington,DC,USA -Truckinginfo -28 Dec 2011: -- National Association of Manufacturers has come out against trucking's new hours-of-service rule, saying the rule will have a negative impact on manufacturers' supply chains, distribution operations and productivity... In a statement NAM said, that the regulation is a prime example of leaders in Washington creating additional uncertainty for the economy at a time when they should be focused on policies to help get Americans back to work...  Adding these new requirements on top of the already cumbersome regulatory burden facing manufacturers will cost jobs and increase the prices of consumer products, NAM President and CEO, Jay Timmons went on to say...

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