FMCSA Amends HOS Requirements
- Monday, 16 September 2019 11:15
The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) last week formally amended some outdated hours-of-service (HOS) requirements, removing provisions that required 34-hour restart, which included two periods between 1 a.m. and 5 a.m. The requirement also limited the use of a restart to once every 168 hours.
In a series of appropriations acts, Congress suspended the provisions, pending completion of a naturalistic study. Completed in 2017, the study found no statistically significant benefits from the restart rule. A 2017 appropriations act voided the restart rules, but the provisions remained in the Code of Federal Regulations until last week. The FMCSA’s action on September 12 was intended to avoid confusion.