FMCSA misses the bus on HOS rule: Newly introduced studies raise more questions than answers

摘要

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration's last-minute move to add four new studies to its hours-of-service docket was a point of discussion at last month's CCJ2011 Spring Symposium in Birmingham, Ala. The studies are intended to supplement the agency's assertions that changes to the current hours-of-service rules are necessary to further reduce safety-critical events for interstate carriers, but their late addition and requisite 30-day comment period will cause FMCSA to miss its July 26 deadline to issue a final rule.