Trucking org calls for removal of hours reform in Senate bill, says ELDs should guide new rules
The Trucking Alliance issued a statement May 2 urging Congress to forgo the recently unveiled changes to hours of service regulations for truck drivers and to wait on the implementation of the coming electronic logging device mandate before issuing any reforms to hours of service regs.
The May 2 letter comes in response to provisions included in the Senate’s 2017 Department of Transportation funding bill relating to hours of service rules. In short, the bill could set a new 73-hour cap on the amount of hours truckers can work in a consecutive seven-day period following a 34-hour restart. The new cap would be contingent on a pending study by the DOT’s Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration. Should the study find the hours rules currently in effect are safer than those in effect between July 2013 and December 2014, the 73-hour cap would take effect. For more details on the potential changes