The White House announced this week that they object to several aspects of the highway funding bill currently being considered by Congress including the rider that would make the suspension of the 34-hour restart rule permanent. If the bill makes it past Congress, the administration stated that they would recommend that President Obama veto the bill.
Though it has not yet been voted on by Congress, the transportation funding bill, H.R. 2527, has multiple riders attached to it that have become incredibly controversial. One of the most controversial riders would see the currently temporary suspension of the 34-hour restart rule made permanent until the FMCSA is able to prove that it would actually make our highways safer (a tough task considering multiple studies have found that it did the exact opposite).
But that’s not the only aspect of the bill that the White House takes issue with. Also in its crosshairs are the riders that would permit heavier, longer trucks on the road; that would prevent any increase in the mandatory liability insurance minimums; and that would remove funding for wireless inspections on highways.
Aside from the restart rule rollback, the trucking industry seems divided on all of those rules. But the administration has one more objection that most in the trucking industry can get behind: There isn’t enough money in the budget to properly maintain and improve our nation’s roadways.
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I have been driving for 35 years every road in the us is under construction of some kind the roads are in worse er shap now then they were back in the 80s our rulroads are in better shap then our interstates and the same contract er is do the work get out of them luxury vehicles get in a big truck and go down the road lay down in that bed take you a nap going down the road then you will see what this message is about ; long haul trucker :
The roads are so bad, it is a wonder a truck even stays together. Drivers bodies are not even made to take the brutal beating day after day.
The 34-hour restart rule that they have suspended is totally a stupid rule to begin with. In a slow economy 34-hour restarts could be taken twice in one week while waiting for a load. With the new rule they suspended, the restart could only been done after about 168 hr, and it would be about the same time every week, longhaul truckers would end up having to sit more days than it is worth, and end up making less money in the long run.
It’ll never pass, people have actually READ this bill.
This government likes to pass legislation that nobody reads.
We’ll just wake up one morning to find it’s illegal to drive a truck, just walk to your nearest community center and wait for your Amazon drone to deliver your monthly Soylent ration.