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WASHINGTON — Adding flexibility to truck driver hours-of-service regulations in 2020 may have...
The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration successfully defended changes to the trucking hours-of-service (HOS) regulations enacted two years ago against a challenge from safety groups and the Teamsters union alleging the changes increase crash risks and make the roads less safe.
In a petition filed in December last year, the union and the three safety groups — Advocates for Highway and Auto Safety (Advocates), Parents Against Tired Truckers, and Citizens for Reliable and Safe Highways —...
https://www.freightwaves.com/news/dc-appeals-court-denies-driver-hours-of-service-challenge
In May 2020, the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration changed the hours-of-service rules that govern the workdays of the nation’s truck drivers.
“The Department of Transportation and the Trump administration listened directly to the concerns of truckers seeking rules that are safer and have more flexibility — and we have acted,” said Jim Mullen, who was the acting administrator for FMCSA at the time. “These updated hours-of-service rules are based on the thousands of comments we received...
https://www.freightwaves.com/news/how-calark-leveraged-tech-to-benefit-from-short-haul-eld-exemption
The California Court of Appeals recently held that federal law preempts California’s meal and rest period requirements for short-haul drivers. In doing so, the California Court of Appeals reiterated that federal law preempts the meal and rest period requirements for motor carriers as a whole.
Background
A truck driver filed a lawsuit against his employer alleging various wage and hour violations, including failure to provide meal and rest periods, unfair business practices, and representative...
https://www.freightwaves.com/news/viewpoint-court-win-for-california-employers-of-short-haul-drivers
Representatives of small-business truckers have asked a federal appeals court to deny safety advocates’ challenge to hours-of-service (HOS) rule changes, saying the challenge is not based on truck-driving realities.
In a petition filed in support of the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, the Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association outlined how its members are benefiting from more flexibility provided by the changes — a somewhat rare occasion in which OOIDA, large carriers and...
https://www.freightwaves.com/news/truckers-safety-groups-ignore-realities-of-driving
Three safety groups and the Teamsters union have filed their initial petition in federal appeals court challenging the federal truck driver hours-of-service (HOS) final rule that went into effect last year. The groups zeroed in on the new short-haul and 30-minute rest-break provisions.
In a filing late Friday with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, Advocates for Highway and Auto Safety, Parents Against Tired Truckers, Citizens for Reliable and Safe Highways, and the...
https://www.freightwaves.com/news/hours-of-service-challenge-laid-out-in-dc-appeals-court
Small-business truckers want to make sure their voices are heard when a federal appeals court takes up a challenge to the recently amended hours-of-service (HOS) regulations.
The Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association (OOIDA) on Friday filed a “motion to intervene” with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit in support of the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA), which is defending its rule changes from the challenge filed in September by the...
https://s29755.pcdn.co/news/owner-operators-opposing-teamsters-in-hos-lawsuit
Four safety groups and the International Brotherhood of Teamsters filed a joint petition Tuesday with the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) to delay the hours-of-service (HOS) final rule scheduled to go into effect on Sept. 29.
The Teamsters, along with Advocates for Highway and Auto Safety (AHAS), the Truck Safety Coalition, Parents Against Tired Truckers, and Citizens for Reliable and Safe Highways (known as CRASH) assert in their formal petition for reconsideration that the...
https://www.freightwaves.com/news/breaking-news-safety-groups-teamsters-seek-delay-in-hos-final-rule
Top officials at the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) are confident that the hours-of-service (HOS) final rule will go into force on Sept. 29 as planned.
Speaking at webinar hosted on Wednesday by the National Tank Truck Carriers (NTTC), Joe DeLorenzo, director of the FMCSA’s Office of Compliance and Enforcement, said his agency is “not anticipating any delay in implementation,” when asked if the rule could be held up.
Asked if the rules are still subject to an approval process...
https://www.freightwaves.com/news/fmcsa-expects-no-delay-in-hours-of-service-effective-date