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ATA: Congress must act to preserve current hours of service rules
AMERICAN Trucking Associations is urging Congress to quickly pass legislation to preserve the current restart rule that gives professional truck drivers the flexibility and opportunity to take extended off-duty periods.
ATA president Bill Graves said: "The flexibility to take additional rest that the restart provided for a decade, and is providing now, allows drivers to get additional off-duty time and rest, and we shouldn't be putting restrictions on that, certainly not ones that have been shown to push truck traffic into riskier daytime hours."
ATA said it was pleased that both the House and Senate have advanced legislation that would remove the threat of the restart being eliminated as a result of a drafting error in last year's Omnibus appropriations bill.
A statement released by ATA pointed out that fatal crashes involving trucks have fallen by 21 per cent since the current hours-of-service and restart rule framework went into effect in 2004.
According to the federal government, speeding and aggressive driving by other vehicles far outpaces truck driver fatigue as a contributor to crashes.
But the American Transportation Research Institute found an uptick in crashes after the restart restrictions were imposed in 2013 as a result of a shift of more truck traffic to daytime hours.
ATA president Bill Graves said: "The flexibility to take additional rest that the restart provided for a decade, and is providing now, allows drivers to get additional off-duty time and rest, and we shouldn't be putting restrictions on that, certainly not ones that have been shown to push truck traffic into riskier daytime hours."
ATA said it was pleased that both the House and Senate have advanced legislation that would remove the threat of the restart being eliminated as a result of a drafting error in last year's Omnibus appropriations bill.
A statement released by ATA pointed out that fatal crashes involving trucks have fallen by 21 per cent since the current hours-of-service and restart rule framework went into effect in 2004.
According to the federal government, speeding and aggressive driving by other vehicles far outpaces truck driver fatigue as a contributor to crashes.
But the American Transportation Research Institute found an uptick in crashes after the restart restrictions were imposed in 2013 as a result of a shift of more truck traffic to daytime hours.
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