Essentially demanding an industry critique of its hours of service regulations that became effective in January 2004 and that were thrown out by an appeals. For the Driver; ...

To paraphrase Shakespeare, one might wonder if the changes that the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration made to the hours of service rule in 2020 amount to much ado about not much.

AFTER holding eight public hearings, conducting three round-table sessions to solicit comments, and reviewing more than 53,000 written comments, the Federal ...

The DOT will launch two pilot programs aimed at providing truckers more flexibility in the hours of service. OOIDA pitched ...

Several groups petitioned FMCSA for an exemption to allow a 16-hour on-duty period with 15 hours of drive time. Also: Plans underway for new trucker-focused healthcare network; overnight I-17 ...

In its long-awaited field study on the current hours rule, FMCSA has concluded that the two 1 a.m. to 5 a.m. period requirements of the 34-hour restart provisions of the rule cause truck operators ...

The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) has announced the first substantial change to the hours-of-service rules (HOS) since 1939.

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 made public ...

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration last week published its latest version of changes to the 60-year-old regulation governing commercial driver work rules.

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, in a notice to be published in Wednesday’s Federal Register, said it was making no changes to its controversial hours-of-service rule.

Trucking companies like the changes, while the Teamsters have serious doubts. The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) has published a notice of ...

“It’s time to have an honest conversation about hours of service,” said FMCSA Administrator Ray Martinez on Tuesday. The agency is looking for feedback around extending drivers’ 14-hour ...