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Originally Posted by ironeagle_2006
Rev here is an article I copied from the Web on the case you CLAIM DID NOT EXSIST.
I wasn't aware that I claimed anything did not "exsist". :roll:
Perhaps you should read that articles you just copied and pasted.
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Trucking Hours-of-Service Rules Overturned
Many things have changed in the motor carrier industry since 1939 when the original hours-of-service (HOS) regulations were prescribed for truck drivers. Our roads are better designed, constructed, and maintained in a nationwide network to provide greater mobility, accessibility, and safety for all highway users. Vehicles have been dramatically improved in terms of design, construction, safety, comfort, efficiency, emissions, technology, and ergonomics. These factors, combined with years of driver fatigue and sleep disorder research, led to a January 2004 revision of the HOS regulations for drivers, the most important component of trucks operating on the highway.
A July 16 court decision, however, has overturned the recent Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration's (FMCSA) hours-of-service rule. The rules allowed truckers to stay on the road for up to 11 straight hours, one more hour than they had been allowed. In addition, it required drivers to take at least 10 hours off between shifts, two more than before. According to the court ruling, “FMCSA failed to consider the impact of the rules on the health of drivers.” Teamsters General President, Jim Hoffa, claimed that the court’s decision to overturn the hours-of-service ruling was a victory for all truck drivers. “Working behind the wheel of a truck is hard, and our concern with this set of rules was that they would increase driver fatigue. We know fatigue creates danger on the highways.”
FMCSA has 45 days from the date of the court decision (July 16, 2004) to decide whether to seek other legal action. However, during that period the hours-of-service regulations put into place in January 2004 will remain in effect. We’ll continue to update you on this issue in future editions of Loss Control Insights.
Back to Insights Newsletter Fall 2004
Source is EMC Insurance
2004 is before 2005, the last time the regulations were altered. :roll:
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And this one is for the FMCSA website
FMCSA 12-07
Tuesday, December 11, 2007
Contact: Melissa Mazzella DeLaney
Tel.: (202) 366-9999 or (202) 366-2309
FMCSA Announces Retention of Limits on Truck Driver Hours of Service
WASHINGTON – Truck drivers will continue to be limited to driving only 11 hours within a 14-hour duty period, after which they must go off duty for at least 10 hours under an Interim Final Rule (IFR) made public today by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA). The IFR was developed after new data showed that safety levels have been maintained since the 11-hour driving limit was first implemented in 2003.
“This proposal keeps in place hours-of-service limits that improve highway safety by ensuring that drivers are rested and ready to work,” FMCSA Administrator John H. Hill said. “The data makes clear that these rules continue to protect drivers, make our roads safer and keep our economy moving.”
The agency noted that, in 2006, the fatality rate per 100 million vehicle miles traveled was 1.94 – the lowest rate ever recorded. Similarly, since 2003, the percentage of large trucks involved in fatigue-related fatal crashes in the 11th hour of driving has remained below the average of the years 1991-2002. In 2005 alone, the agency noted, there was only one large truck involved in a fatigue-related fatal crash in the 11th hour of driving while in 2004 there were none.
In addition, between 2003, when the 11-hour driving limit and the 34-hour restart were adopted, and 2006, the percent of fatigue-related large truck crashes relative to all fatal large truck crashes has remained consistent. And the agency’s estimates show that only seven percent of large truck crashes are fatigue related.
Hill noted that the agency also is working to finalize a proposed rule that would require drivers and trucking companies with serious or repeat hours-of-service violations to track their hours of service using electronic on-board recorders.
The agency issued the new hours of service rule in response to the recent decision by the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals vacating key provisions of the existing hours of service rules effective on December 27. In order to ensure no gap in coverage of these important safety rules, today’s rule temporarily reinstates those two provisions while the agency gathers public comment on its actions and the underlying safety analysis before issuing a final rule.
So the first article is prior to the date of the last change, and the second article states very clearly that the HOS regs were retained. Do you need a dictionary to help you understand the word retained?
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So REV YOU WERE WRONG YET AGAIN.
I'm waiting anxiously for you to tell me where exactly I am wrong. :lol: