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HOS REGULATIONS * USA - Groups Seek Cut in Drive Times
Washington,DC,USA -Transport Topics -27 June 2010: -- A coalition of interest groups that has repeatedly succeeded in challenging the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration’s hours-of-service rule pushed for dramatically cutting the current daily and weekly work-time limits... FMCSA should slash the number of hours a professional driver could be behind the wheel to eight from the current limit of 11 and increase the daily mandated off-duty period to 12 hours from 10, the groups said... FMCSA, which has had its HOS rule rejected by federal courts twice after lawsuits by the coalition, has a July 26 deadline for publishing a revised hours rule... The coalition, which is led by Public Citizen and includes the Teamsters union, made its comments in a filing to the agency’s rulemaking docket... FMCSA Administrator Anne Ferro said the agency was on schedule to have the rule to the White House by July 26...Labels: HOS regulations
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