The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia has stayed its mandate overturning the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration's (FMCSA) Hours of Service 11-hour driving limit and the 34-hour restart provisions. The mandate is stayed until December 27, 2007. In the court's inital vacating of the driving provisions, it had indicated that FMCSA had failed to provide sufficent justification for the proposed driving provisions. Presumably, FMCSA will use the additional approximately 90 days to provide sufficient justification for the proposed changes. The American Trucking Associations had requested an 8 month stay and the FMCSA had asked for a 12 month stay.


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How many times have you came to work and dozed off at your desk? It only takes a split second in a truck at 60mph to crash when you doze off. With this new hours of service rule you have taken away my ability to stop and have a sleep before I do that. I don't understand how anyone could call these new rules safe. When I could split the sleep time I got at least 10 hours a day of sleep. This new rule is ludicrous at best. It definitely is not in the best intrest of safety. Thank you for your time. Bill.
Posted by Bill Hodgkins | September 14, 2008 4:57 PM
Posted on September 14, 2008 16:57