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These dunderheads in Washington, D.C., need a check-up from the neck up. How about mandating minimum rates coming out of the ports so the drayage operators can afford to buy newer trucks without federal funds? That’s a good way to save a few million dollars on the deficit, don’t you think?

This never-ending hours-of-service regulatory process reminds me of a quip from a John Wayne movie: “We’re burnin’ daylight.” Trucks continue to roll down our nation’s highways, with drivers more confused than ever on pending legislation.

Proposed changes to the federal hours-of-service rule are unwarranted and would harm small businesses nationwide, a trucking executive told a Congressional panel Tuesday.

Now that the comment period on the latest twist in the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration’s long, drawn-out trek to a permanent hours-of-service rule has expired, it’s time for the agency to reaffirm its support for the very successful regulation that already exists.

BALTIMORE — The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration expects to complete work on hours-of-service rule revisions by late October, three months later than its original target date, according to Administrator Anne Ferro. 

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration is reopening its hours-of-service proposed rule to public comments in order to allow review of four new studies.

American Trucking Associations is endorsing a federal proposal that trucking companies use electronic logging devices to monitor drivers’ compliance with hours-of-service rules

American Trucking Associations is “poised” to file a lawsuit against the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration if the agency adopts a proposed rule that could cut driver time to 10 hours a day, ATA Chairman Barbara Windsor said.

As the latest round of hours-of-service regulatory change plays out in Washington, I have come to the realization that the trucking industry is broken.