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.

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration's Hours of Service regulations were updated last year, going into effect September 29, 2020. The changes were two years in the making and came only ...

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; ...

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

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.

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

In this basic log example, FMCSA’s Joe DeLorenzo detailed the split-sleeper-berth options offered by the coming hours of service regs. Here, a driver goes on-duty at midnight, then off-duty for ...

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 ...

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 ...

“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 ...

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration on Thursday issued its latest hours-of-service proposal, though the agency has yet to decide if truckers should be allowed 10 or 11 hours of daily ...