OOIDA has long billed itself as the champion of the small-business trucker, but really they’re looking out for all sorts of truckers everywhere. The ATA bills itself as the voice of the trucking industry, but really they’re a group of extremely powerful executives at large trucking companies looking out for their own best interests. As you might imagine, there’s really not much the two groups can agree upon. So when they can both come together in a court room and be on the same side, you know what they’re fighting against must be monumentally awful.
In this particular case that monumentally awful thing is the FMCSA; specifically the HOS changes that are being pushed through and will go into effect July 1st. Officially it’s the ATA bringing the challenge against the HOS rule, but they claim that their challenge is backed by the National Industrial Transportation League, the Truckload Carriers Assn., OOIDA, the National Shippers Strategic Transportation Council, and 15 other organizations that represent shippers or the business community in general.
The challenge asserts that the new HOS rules would put “onerous restrictions” of drivers’ ability to manage their schedules effectively by putting inflexible rules on the number and frequency of breaks they take during their workday. In addition, the ATA says that the changes were made despite not having data that supported the claim that the new rules would actual improve driver safety.
“The existing rules have a proven track record, and the agency’s purported reasons for tinkering with them were baseless,” said ATA general counsel Prasad Sharma. “We’re hopeful the judges will see through the agency’s mere pleas for deference and after-the-fact explanations for a rule that was agenda-driven rather than evidence-based.”
The ATA is hoping for a swift decision on the matter, but there’s no deadline for when the court must make a decision. If a decision comes too late, the ATA claims that the trucking industry will have to spend $320 million between now and July 1st to prepare for the changes.
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Humm large trucking companies are fighting this? Makes me wonder if it will be all that bad.
What i do know is that i hate being treated like a robot. Sleep now.. Ok drive.. Ok go back to sleep mode at noon!
These trucking companies are so greedy that they have , no consideration for us out here doing the job. And poor pay we receive..The rule should stay into affect for july and not changed,, Sell some of your equipment and run some of those clock rider out of the offices and give us a raise..If a normal person works 8 hours a day, with two 15 min breaks and a half hour lunch. They only worked 7 hours per day, so why would a driver have to work 11 hours with a 14 hour window, This is not safe. having a tired driver that could wipe out you family or love ones.Planners and dispatchers has always ran off companies driver..When a shipper order your truck he should have it ready to go on the truck.. If they don’t then charge the at a high rate , they will get the job done or pay if not loaded upon and two hour span . I sent La Hood and e-mail regarding how we are being pushed out here ,, Due to greed. Every year we have new driver entering our road ways..high school student and it’s a mess out here people cutting you off ..If a company has not made any money in five working days they need to close their doors..Push for hometime and rest.. A rested driver is a safe driver..Greed has destroyed the industry..C.E.O. need to be fired for what they do . Except funnel out the funds into their pockets..I am in hopes that the law goes into affect.And it’s going to be real shortage in trucking . The baby boomer are getting out of trucking , and the younger generation want leave their wives and children to drive a truck for 50 cents and hour. I don’t blame them ..PASS THE LAW..
Sales reps often work on commissions, not hourly wage. Waitresses make below minimum wage, but make it up with tips. Should these be outlawed too? Why would you accept a job offer that clearly spells out what you get paid, then complain about it?
Why fix something that is NOT broken. The drivers should be paid better but you have a choice where you want to work. If you do not like trucking then leave it. I am tired of everyone wanting to change things when there is nothing wrong with the hours we have now. If you change them this will cause more drivers to have to be hired resulting in lower pay and more trucks on the road. More drivers will be down longer resulting in less places to park. teams will be hurt because they can’t run and one driver get a reset while then other drives so now there will be five times the amount of trucks trying to find a place to park . THERE IS NOTHING WRONG WITH THE HOS. NOW LEAVE THEM ALONE.
This new law is unfair. With rising fuel and maintenance cost it’s hard enuff for owner operators like myself to make ends meet. By further limiting my drive time and messing with restart rule im going to lose several hours of income earnig potential. No one who asn’t been out on the road dependent on what they make trucking can understand the difficulties of this job or how to do it safely. I don’t understand why it’s ok for people that don’t even possess the skills to perform a job can write the regulations for that job. I wouldn’t want my accountant telling my brain surgeon how he was allowed to go about taking a tumor out. Also why is it the government doesn’t want to recognize us drivers as a skilled laborer but yet they have a whole branch of federal government to regulate us.
Because they can turn you how they want you!
Stop puss out and rise! All the drivers! Riot! Riot! Riot!
How many of us remember the much touted change CSA 2010 would bring to the benefit of the American Trucker? Trucking Associations and others praised the positive changes such laws would bring in increased wages and benefits Truck Drivers would experience as a result. Well, I’m still waiting for the increase, the added benefits, the increased salary- the boon from what has turned out to be bureaucratic cow paddies. Some of you say, “leave things as they are,” while others say, ” change is good.” What I find to be most disturbing is the position taken by the self-serving, deceitful, greedy, unethical few who believe they have no moral or social obligation to conduct their business or their life style in a manner which benefits hard working Americans. What happened to “we hold these truths to be self-evident…” I work hard! We work hard! Pay us a Fare Wage!!! If not, sit in your foolish luxury and wait for Food, Clothing, and other Essential Goods when the “Trucks” stop rolling.
as a owner operator my view is the pay per mile being the same as 1970 rates is truly shameful! with cost of living or inflation that rate should be 3.39 per mile plus fuel surcharge,and i truly believe the rate charged to customers is a lot more than 1.00 per mile van ,1.35to 1.55 for flatbed is considerlbly higher then all the brokers and large companies get their greed involved . trucks ,tires ,oil,fuel and shop rates keep climbing but we as truck owners are drowning in debt. thr feds say the industry has never been safer,ha ha. the trucking industry will follow the housing industry right down the tubes and the banks right with them. one day all the drivers are not going to be able to run and that day is near. the new hos rule in 2003 was the first step to destruuction of owner operators,the large companies ran most of us out,then brokers stepped inm and now the drivers do the work,risk life and limb every day. now large companies want owmer ops. so they have no overhead, and the drivers took another pay cut last year and i hope and pray that i am wrong ,but the freighht has usually picked up by now,but it has not. so it’s either haul cheap freight from companies that you hope will pay you or get out. it cost’s 80 cent per mile for fuel and not even the biggest company can make it on 20 to 85 cent per mile after fuel, my point is 80 cpm. fuel 25 cpm maintence and we still have taxes ,insurance ,workman comp ,there is no money for pay.