Slater Says DOT Will Amend Hours-of-Service Proposal
The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration plans to issue a proposed supplemental rule for driver hours of service that could involve small concessions to trucking.
Transportation Secretary Rodney E. Slater announced the agency’s plans Aug. 24 in an effort to diffuse lobbying efforts by the trucking industry to get Congress to kill hours-of-service reform in the 2001 transportation budget.
The proposal to alter trucking’s work rules ran into a tidal wave of opposition from the industry and other groups when it was released in late April, which led the Senate to approve a one-year moratorium on DOT implementing any such changes. A joint House-Senate conference committee is due to take up the ban when Congress reconvenes next month.
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The secretary could provide no details about what changes to the proposal the supplemental rule would make or when it would be issued. But he did say changes would be based on public comments and information uncovered during three recently scheduled hours-of-service roundtables.
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