The highway funding bill that’s making its way through Congress has a provision which would delay the implementation of the HOS reform rules by up to 18 months. Officials at the FMCSA don’t seem concerned however. They say that HOS reform isn’t subject to Congressional approval.
The House highway funding bill is facing stern resistance. Republicans have pushed back against increased infrastructure funding despite support from President Trump to both rebuild the nation’s aging roads and bridges, and to help stimulate the economy out of the current recession.
One of the provisions of the bill seeks to delay the implementation of the Hours of Service (HOS) reform rule by up to 18 months. The provision is intended to provide enough time for research to be conducted into the potential impacts of the new HOS rules.
Director of the FMCSA’s Office of Compliance and Enforcement, Joe DeLorenzo, was speaking at a webinar hosted by the National Tank Truck Carriers on Wednesday. According to FreightWaves, DeLorenzo told attendees that the FMCSA doesn’t expect the HOS rule to be postponed.
DeLorenzo says that it doesn’t matter whether or not the highway funding bill is passed in its current state or not. According to him, Congress doesn’t have the authority to delay the rollout of the rules. Establishing the regulations are “not a Congressional action, they’re within our discretion through the federal rulemaking process.”
If the rules proceed as FMCSA expects, they will go into effect on September 29th.
Source: freightwaves, overdrive, ccj, fleetowner, FMCSA
And the new rules are what?? Thanks for this pointless memo
The new rules were posted on this platform several months ago.
I saw something about changing expanding the local driving radius for the exception and something about making the 30 minute break requirement for 8 hours of driving instead of on-duty. I THINK I was looking at the right thing but I can’t be 100% sure.
Exactly! It was just a long pointless reworking if the headline.. wtf??
Ditto ??? What are the new rules ! & double the mandatory insurance requirements to 2 million dollars in coverage ??? When will we ever be able to afford that ?
You wont! Thats the point of these rules..to put you out of business so you can depend on gvt handouts.
yup ur right to force u out of business and or go apply at a mega carrier smfh
The new insurance requirements isn’t gonna double the costs … relax Chico
If you dont know the new rules until now you have been asleep at the wheel,they have had it going on for couple years now and drivers were allowed to comment in plenty of meetings,I just wish they would go ahead and implement them now.
Agreed. Pay attention!!
This is your livelihood.
We need to to what the people did in the George Floyd event
Truck owners life is not matter. Every way is looking which way take blood of Truck owners.
So, now an agency can make laws not subjected to Congress? Have we had enough yet?
LoL captain obvious go flip burgers
Here are the new regulations.
FMCSA revises the hours of service (HOS) regulations to provide greater flexibility for drivers subject to those rules without adversely affecting safety. The Agency: (1) expands the short-haul exception to 150 air-miles and allows a 14-hour work shift to take place as part of the exception; (2) expands the driving window during adverse driving conditions by up to an additional 2 hours; (3) requires a 30-minute break after 8 hours of driving time (instead of on-duty time) and allows an on-duty/not driving period to qualify as the required break; and (4) modifies the sleeper berth exception to allow a driver to meet the 10-hour minimum off-duty requirement by spending at least 7, rather than at least 8 hours of that period in the berth and a minimum off-duty period of at least 2 hours spent inside or outside of the berth, provided the two periods total at least 10 hours, and that neither qualifying period counts against the 14-hour driving window.
Great, they are at it again. Maybe this time they will get it right? I wouldn’t hold my breath, though.
There was nothing wrong with the rules before they changed em back in 07 or whatever it was
Final HOS Rules:
https://www.thetruckersreport.com/final-hos-rule-issued-gives-truckers-just-bit-wiggle-room/
The new rules change nothing anyway. All the money and time wasted to implement new rules that benefit no one.. as far as the insurance increase they cry personal injury increases have not occurred in years so it’s needed to keep up with inflation, well how about drivers wages and earnings? Where’s that increase at.
If you’re still making what you were 20 years ago get out of it son ! I’m making 3x as much as I was 20 years ago
Going on 40 years driving I have heard and seen many changes for truckers like me and many others I like driving a rig drivers complain about this and that I am waiting to see how much longer we as drivers are going to put up with this 20 years ago repair rates along with other stuff were a lot cheaper then if our pay went up as fast as anything else we would be making money and now some fool in the government want to double the insurance rates yust to fix roads and they think it’s going to make it safer for drivers they need to focus on shippers and receivers but you never hear anything about that do we of course not we can sit around in a truck stop for 3 or 4 dayes but oh my good we can’t go on strike because we need the money I may lose my job
That sure as he’ll isn’t anything to be proud of only 3 x as much what a joke
Todd if they change the RULES change your rate for service. Truckers this is the perfect time to do everything and get what you want. REMEMBER if TRUCKS dont move AMERICA STOPS. I love my country but the people in it are doing us wrong. WE as TRUCKERS stay up all times of night barely getting rest and to be treated like we are the scum of the EARTH. STAYING AWAY FROM OUR FAMILIES AND OUR KIDS, LOOSING OUR WIVES AND CHILDREN .
FOR THIS KIND OF TREATMENT. THIS MUST CEASE TO EXIST. Some of us give our profession a bad name and it must stop. WE MUST UNITE BECAUSE EVERYONE AND I MEAN EVERYONE ELSE IS! IF YOU LOVE YOUR COUNTRY AND JOB WE MUST U N I T E !
I second this mans point and that all govt. officials that is involved with DOT should go out for whole 3weeks in a truck pickup/deliver loads eat at truck stops sleep in a moving semi then think what they’re HOS is doing to us HARD WORKING TRUCKERS day in day out while they sit on there behinds.
Maybe it is time to shut the FMCSA down! Maybe we should all go to this fellows house and maybe drive a truck or two through his house. We are sick of being over regulated and taxed to death! It’s time to turn the table around on these people.
New will wind up making drivers work longer hours without a rest or meal break.Making highways less safe. Split breaks will cause havoc with delivery schedules and planning of loads and deliveries. Too many variables in equation of timelines and how to use Hos
#DEFUND FMSCA.
DoT’s entire rulemaking authority descends from Congressional authorization to do so. If Congress passes a bill, it’s federal law, and it supersedes bureaucratic rulemaking based upon previous Congressional authorization.
DeLorenzo needs to pull his head out of his… narcissism… and remember what country he works for.
all bullshiznit!
why were truckers not out demonstrating during the past two weeks?
a great opportunity to put pressure on fmcsa- tel# – address- leadership names
All truckers are getting screwed one way the other. And we let them to do that. We are human bean. But we can’t do nothing without them. Brokers using us. And d.o.t. making rules to get screwed. And we let them.
Abolish the CSS and the ATA and do us all a favor
**abolish the FMCSA annd the ATA
They are just making things worse. FMCSA is a joke
Yeah relax everyone, my two million dollar policy because I haul military bases and oilfields too is only 86.00 a week, just raise your rate.
The FMCSA is wrong, in regards to Congresses authority, to delay implementation of these rules. Congress has congressional oversight, over nearly every department within government. Not sure why the author of this article, would want to be disingenuous, by convincing the reader otherwise. Other than to stir up further chaos, division, and controversy, in an already troubled, and unstable time period. The Constitution clearly spells out, literally, Congress’s responsibilities, and powers. This only demonstrates to me, that it’s not necessary, to know your subject matter. To actually know the law of the land, in order to engage in writing it, or writing about it. That apparently, you can just make it up, as you go!
The issue is that Congress made a law about the process by which to make rules, and the FMCSA followed that process, and now a few people in Congress are trying to tell them to NOT follow the rules that Congress itself ordered, and it just doesn’t work that way.
Congress has to follow their own rules as well, unless they want to go back and also change the original rules.
The rule change has already been made, and it’s already been published as Law, with a short delay to allow people to implement it, and now Congress wants to try to short circuit it’s own laws and procedures, and try to undo what was done properly.
Basically, Congress made one rule, and now this ammendment is contradicting their previous rule, so which one wins? The minor ammendment or the major law that defines how our government works?
So, it would end up in court, and the court would have to decide which of Congress’s laws were enforceable, and which were contradictory.
And hopefully the rule making process is the one that comes out on top, otherwise the entire system of agency rule making is tossed out, and the federal agencies are unable to function anymore (including the ones that pay for road repairs, farm subsidies, law enforcement, military, etc etc.)
The bill changes nothing unless it’s signed into law. Without going into detail, Congress does not make regulations. The law spells out what Congress wants and the agency writes the regulation that we abide by.
I don’t see any major change in any thing that matters just wasted a bunch of tax dollars for nothing
DEFUND FMCSA
I made more money 30 years ago than I do now still driving the same miles. What’s Wrong.
The company you are working for.
It’s so frustrating when you are stuck in traffic due to road work and your hos is running down to the last minute and what are you supposed to do. Park in the middle of the road for ten hours or wait for you thirty four hours reset. Need more rest areas
Where do you go if you get cited 4 something and feel it was sighted incorrectly how do you get your driving record back to normal when you haven’t done anything wrong well in a resting area not driving to cover the hour of Service rules of not driving I’m a concerned parent where do you go to get infractions corrected so that you can get a job and not lose the one you currently have there is no guidance whatsoever on how to file a complaint or correct the incident
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