CRASH Will Sue to Stop Hours Rule
A coalition of safety advocates plans to sue to stop the new hours of service rules.
A coalition made up of Citizens for Reliable and Safe Highways, Parents Against Tired Truckers and Public Citizen has asked the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia to review the new hours of service rule.
As Heavy Duty Trucking went to press the brief had not been filed, so details of the coalition's argument were not available. But CRASH and PATT believe the new rule allows too much driving time, and in any event, cannot be enforced because it does not include the requirement for on-board recorders to track driver hours.
"Safety groups believe that the FMCSA has placed trucking productivity ahead of safety in its decision-making process, thereby violating both the spirit and the letter of its enabling legislation, the Motor Carrier Safety Improvement Act of 1999," CRASH said in response to publication of the rule. "Increasing the number of consecutive hours that commercial drivers are permitted to operate their trucks is clearly an effort to trade off trucking industry economic interests against improved safety, an action that violates congressional instruction and intent."
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