The people who enforce trucking safety had difficulty with a key aspect in the Department of Transportation’s proposal to change hours of service, but now their organization, the Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance, has called for completion of the rulemaking.
The hours proposal calls for five different categories of drivers, each with different time limits on driving and resting. Roadside inspectors balked, saying it would be hard to know which category of driver they were dealing with when pulling over a trucker.
But now CVSA is saying it’s more important to update the regulations, especially with regard to driver fatigue, than to quibble over the details.
“We need something more than a gut feeling from our officers on the road as to what constitutes fatigue,” Dick Henderson, CVSA’s director of government affair, told Transport Topics Aug. 2.
For the full story, see the Aug. 7 print edition of Transport Topics. .
