The American Trucking Associations filed a petition for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia to review the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration’s final hours of safety rules. The new hours of service rules (HOS) reduce by twelve hours the maximum number of hours that a commercial truck driver can work within a single week. Under the old rules, the drivers could work on average 82 hours per week. The proposed HOS rules reduced that number to 70 hours per week and mandate a thirty-minute rest period within every eight hours worked. The new rules let stand the 11-hour daily driving limit within a 14-hour, non-extendable window from the start of the workday, following 10 consecutive hours off duty, which advocates had opposed because of possible risks to public safety on the highways.
Bettina Altizer- Attorney at Law
Altizer and Altizer
324 Washington Avenue
Roanoke, Virginia, 24016
540-345-2000
No comments:
Post a Comment