Congressional Subcommittee to Study Proposed Hours-of-Service Changes

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congressional subcommittee has scheduled a hearing July 20 to look into the effect of new driver hours rules and examine possible changes to them, a congressional aide said.

Meanwhile, Rep. John Boozman (R-Ark.) will attempt to add a provision to pending six-year transportation legislation changing federal hours-of-service rules for short-haul drivers, an aide familiar with the issue said.

Boozman is not a member of the House-Senate conference committee now working to resolve differences between the versions of the transportation funding bill that the two congressional bodies have passed, and a legislative aide for the congressman said he would need an ally on the committee to add any changes to the bill.

Boozman planned to try to change driver-hours rules the Transportation Department put into effect in January, to allow short-haul drivers two 16-hour days a week instead of the one day the rules permit and to allow drivers two hours of flexible time per shift.

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