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More Regulation, Please, ATA Sues to Get DOT to Issue HOS Regs
One of the dreaded pieces of red tape for truck drivers and trucking companies alike are hours-of-service regulations. Congress passed a law in 1994 requiring the Department of Transportation to specify the standards for supporting documents for hours-of-service, but the federal DOT has yet to have done so. They have unofficial standards in place but no firm regulations on the issue.

The American Trucking Association has filed a lawsuit in the District of Columbia appeals circuit court to try and force the DOT to make those regulations. The ATA has filed what is called a mandamus action, in which a court can force an agency to do its job under law; since the law was passed 15 years ago and the DOT has yet to craft formal regulations on the issue, the ATA seems to be on solid footing to go to court on this issue.

One possible outcome would be the use of electronic methods of tracking how many hours a driver is behind the wheel; that would make paperwork a lot easier and a lot harder to fudge, even if it has a Big Brother feel to it for many people.

Business doesn’t like uncertainty, and getting some closure on the HOS standards would make life easier for both drivers and trucking service companies. The Teamsters might be against increasing the maximum hours that drivers can work in a day (a proposed regulation from 2003 moving the hours from 10 to 11 a day is still in the taking stage), but this is a regulation that both parties could agree on.

Sources:
http://www.truckinginfo.com/news/news-deta...s_category_id=3
http://www.handyshippingguide.com/shipping...rs-records_1165
http://www.joc.com/node/416155
Posted on 05 Feb 2010 by mfreight

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All Change Begins With a First Step, Freight and the environment, freight transport
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There’s an old Chinese saying, “If you want to change the world, begin with the world around you.” This is exactly the direction the freight transport industry has decided to take after the dissatisfaction felt with the results achieved last month at Copenhagen’s climate summit. Taking the lead in the discussion over the need and methods that should be used to compile the data on carbon emissions and how we should go about reducing the carbon emissions. The freight transport industry will collect data on the freight industries carbon emissions using a plan devised and implemented by the Freight Transport Association (FTA). This plan will be used to provide those who make the rules and regulations with a database to help formulate future blueprints for plans to reduce carbon emissions.

Called the Logistics Carbon Reduction Scheme (LCRS), the plan aims to collect data on carbon emissions, inform the proper authorities of the numbers, and then use the data to help formulate plans to reduce the carbon footprint of the freight transport industry. The plan is backed by 23,000 drivers and members of the FTA that conduct owner operator trucking on a daily basis.
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