Overdrive Magazine reports…
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“The more restrictive hours of service rules took effect in July 2013, prompting widespread criticism by both fleets and drivers for preventing truckers from returning to duty until 5 a.m. after a restart, even if the restart had spanned a full 34 hours.
One of the chief arguments against the regulations were that it pushed drivers into early morning rush hour traffic — which caused safety and operational issues — and that FMCSA issued the rule with little scientific evidence to back up the restrictions.”
Well, now…
If THAT is to be the criteria for overturning these regs, I’m all for it.
One question, though… On what basis are we to assume that the now existing regulations meet the standard set here?
In other words, why should we believe that the EXISTING regulations make us safer? What standard did these unelected paper-pushers use to make this determination?
I mean, let’s leave aside for the moment it was the same type of unelected paper pusher whom by means of the so-called Environmental Protection Agency forced us into more expensive less reliable trucks that consume more fuel per mile in the name of saving the environment without any indication whatsoever that it is actually doing that.
Perhaps we should remember also at the point these supposedly Safer regulations were put into place the federal government’s own figures showed that 90% of car truck accidents were the fault of the CAR driver. Not the truck driver. Course, how does the federal government respond? They regulated the truck driver.
If nothing else the reversal of these regulations proves once and for all the inept and quite probably corrupt means by which these matters are dealt with.
I’d like to think that the current Administration and the current Congress have both the intelligence and the stamina to put a stop to all this nonsense.
But frankly, I doubt it.
