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Hours of Service: Page 22
Hours of Service
Flexible split sleeper berth exemption extended 4 more years
Private carrier McKee Foods has been granted an extension to its 2015-granted waiver, which allows its drivers to divide their 10 required sleeper berth hours into 5/5, 6/4 or 3/7 splits. FMCSA’s own commissioned research has shown split sleep has little to no bearing on truck driver fatigue or safety. Truckers, however, still must abide by the rigid 14-hour rule.
April 19, 2016
Overdrive Extra
Teamsters, safety groups to Congress: Don’t touch hours of service
Two key trucking items likely to see action in the appropriations process include a fix to the hours of service legislative screw-up from Congress’ 2016 DOT appropriations law and the revival of the so-called “federal authority” provisions floated in recent transportation-related bills.
April 18, 2016
Hours of Service
Hours exemption for Oregon loggers extended per 2015-passed highway bill
The extension of the expiration date is in response to a provision in the December-passed FAST Act highway bill that extended exemptions in effect when the bill was enacted. The bill extended the exemptions to five years from the date they were were issued from two years.
March 28, 2016
Hours of Service
Request to allow some drivers to use detention time as off-duty time denied by FMCSA
An exemption request from the American Trucking Associations that would allow drivers to exclude detention time at a natural gas or oil well site from their total 14 on-duty hours has been denied by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration.
March 28, 2016
Hours of Service
Fireworks haulers want hours exemption renewed, loggers seek securement exemption
The FMCSA is seeking public comment on two exemption requests – one for fireworks haulers from the 14-hour rule during the July 4 holiday period, and one for the Great Lakes Timber Professionals Association from certain cargo securement regulations.
March 15, 2016
Hours of Service
34-hour restart fix left out of FAA extension bill
Hopes that Congress would undo a provision passed in December that could kill the 34-hour restart entirely came up empty when the House’s Transportation Committee unveiled the aviation-focused legislation Thursday.
March 10, 2016
Hours of Service
POLL: Ideal future for the 34-hour restart?
With Congressional attention back on the 34-hour restart in the hours of service after language of the FY 2016 appropriations bill put its very existence in a kind of limbo, what’s your preferred version of its future?
February 22, 2016
Hours of Service
Trucker in Tracy Morgan crash again pleads not guilty to vehicular homicide, manslaughter charges
The truck driver involved in the accident that killed one man and injured comedian Tracy Morgan in June of 2014 pleaded not guilty to all charges when he was arraigned in Superior Court in N.J.
February 4, 2016
Hours of Service
6 states issue hours-of-service waivers for emergency loads in wake of Winter Storm Jonas
Six East Coast states have issued temporary and limited hours-of-service exemptions for certain relief load haulers in the wake of the historic winter storm that impacted about a third of the U.S. population.
January 25, 2016
Hours of Service
Required 34-hour restart study finished, advances to next step, says FMCSA boss
A Congressionally required study of truck operators and FMCSA’s 2013-instituted 34-hour restart regulations has been completed and is now under review by the Department of Transportation’s Office of the Secretary, said Scott Darling, nominated administrator of FMCSA.
January 20, 2016
Hours of Service
FMCSA to study hours, sleeper berth flexibility, wants to recruit 200 trucker participants
The key goal of the research is to determine the safety viability of allowing truckers to split their off-duty time into segments rather than the current requirement that it be 10 consecutive hours or the limited 8/2 split.
January 8, 2016
Hours of Service
Trucker in Tracy Morgan crash indicted on homicide, assault charges
Kevin Roper, the truck driver at the center of the fatal June 2014 tractor-trailer crash involving actor Tracy Morgan, has been indicted on the manslaughter and vehicular homicide charges brought against him in the aftermath of the crash, court records show.
December 23, 2015
Hours of Service
President signs spending package that includes continuation of 34-hour restart regs suspension
The U.S. House passed Friday the $1.1 trillion omnibus spending bill that continues the suspension of certain 2013-implemented hours-of-service rules.
December 18, 2015
Hours of Service
Rollback of 34-hour restart regs further entrenched by Congressional budget deal
FMCSA will have to prove its 2013-implemented rules are better for driver fatigue and highway safety than previous hours rules before they can go back into effect, Congress directs.
December 16, 2015
Channel 19
Getting in bed with the railroad
Ever taken a 10-hour break on a train? The Truck Ferry project would turn freight flatcars into rolling sleeper berths for multiple tractor-trailer rigs/drivers.
November 3, 2015
Hours of Service
DOD granted renewal of 30-minute break exemption
The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration has renewed the Department of Defense’s exemption to the 30-minute break requirement of 2013’s hours-of-service rule.
October 6, 2015
Hours of Service
Hours rules suspended in Carolinas following historic flooding from Hurricane Joaquin
Drivers hauling relief or emergency loads in North Carolina and South Carolina have been granted a temporary waiver of hours-of-service rules and size and weight limits.
October 6, 2015
Overdrive Radio
Podcast: Will FMCSA give sleeper berth flexibility in next hours-of-service rule?
In this brief interview, Overdrive News Editor James Jaillet talks with the Truckload Carriers Association’s David Heller about potential changes to hours of service rules FMCSA and Congress could be working on.
October 2, 2015
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