Rumors have been swirling for weeks that the planned Hours of Service (HOS) reform rules may be rolled back or delayed. According to regulators though, the changes are “right on track.” And there is no plan to delay.
Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) Acting Administrator Jim Mullen told attendees to an online Truck Safety Summit that there is “no effort to abate or hold off on Sept. 29” start date for HOS changes.
Some lawmakers had expressed concern that the HOS changes had been made without doing the proper research to see what the impact of the changes would be. Safety groups have been against the changes which they say will make truckers more likely to be involved in accidents.
In response to noises from Congress though, an FMCSA official said that Congress doesn’t have the right to delay the reforms to the HOS rules. Establishing these regulations are “not a Congressional action, they’re within our discretion through the federal rulemaking process.”
Check out our write-up on how the HOS rules are being changed here.
Source: overdrive
These politicians might as well be lobby folks for the trucking industry. It worked great before these knuckleheads tampered with the weekly 34 HR restart, and that was many years ago. Go back to the old 8hr break and 10 hour drive rules. Those rules worked best, and now that elds are mandatory, it will work great.
Your definitely right! Go back to the way it was.
How much money have you drivers lost since you voted that treasonous pedaphile in? Took away the per diem write off, started a trade war killing off trucking businesses, amplifying pandemic losses by continually not taking it seriously, and now almost 4 years with no HOS progress while increasing accident/death rate by 5%.
You can do better.
0 control over people, that’s what works best, the government has no business on telling me when I can and can’t drive, is my truck not theirs, all the regulations are in place because truckers allowed to happen, same with the EPA, I took my truck back to the dealer and bought a pre-emission truck, let the dealers and the EPA keep that junk, that’s how you combat total control, go around it or quit once and for all.
FMCSA has no authority that does not descend from Congressional approval. There is no “federal rulemaking process” without Congressional authority. That “FMCSA official” has forgotten who he works for.
I still don’t see why we are supposed to bow down to the powers that be. There are more of us than there are of them.
I don’t need anyone to regulate when I can drive and when I can’t. I know when I am tired and need a nap.
All they do I restrict how much money we can make by making you shut down and waste time sitting.
We need to bunch up and drive by all inspection stations.
They need to get rid of the 70 hr rule all together. Let us run every day.
Thank FMCA. Anyhting is better then having to sit on line 2 for 8 hours to pause the 14 hor clock. Thank you. Is it perfect? no. Better then what we have now? yes
One thing the covid hoax has done is expose the bull of the HOS rules. If accidents go up they cannot be attributed to HOS rules but can be attributed to the inexperienced drivers that somehow got a CDL. I see them everyday in the truck stops and at the customers, they are easy to spot, they can’t back up at semi truck for nothing! Yes, how these companies are hiring these fools without testing them is beyond me.