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Drivers call for hours changes
March 27, 2010
| by: Max Heine
Drivers and others in trucking called for more flexibility in sleeper berth regulations Friday, March 26, during the fifth public hearing on revising the hours of service rule.
The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration held the day-long meeting at a convention center in Louisville, Ky.
FMCSA Administrator Anne Ferro, who has attended some of the hearings, said the challenge is finding ways to make the regs more flexible, but in ways that will “protect us from those who abuse the system.”
She said there will be further opportunity for comment before the agency issues a final rule, which is due by July 2011.
Donald Miller of Swift Transportation said the lack of sleeper berth split flexibility works against smart timing for getting through urban rush hours and forces drivers to eat while they drive instead of taking a break.
Sue Walker of Enterprise Transportation said she has trouble with split sleeper berth restrictions when she’s forced out of her normal daytime body cycles. That happens “when I have to start out at midnight or 1 in the morning to pick up a load and drive through the night,” she said.
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This comment is for the HOS,let me ask you all the people who came up with these rediculous hos,have these people ever driven a truck,much less ever been on the docks or severe weather,traffic jams,or have these people simply been sitting in an office in front of a computer reading e-mails from other doin the same thing they are,we the ddrivers know what and how to do what we do let us the driver do it,no one is telling these office people when to take a 10hour break,or when to go home if people are not happy with how the proffesional truck driver is doing his/her job come out here and do it yourself then,i’ve been an owneroperator for 15years now and have 27years driving experience.
He is right. The more restrictions placed on us a as a whole truck driving community simply requires us to learn a new way to lie and so that we can get our time with our families and still earn a good living, while trying to keep he DOT and general uneducated public happy.
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