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FMCSA Extends Pandemic-Related HOS Waiver Through November
Tuesday, August 31, 2021 - 4:14pm | 513Read More...The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration has tacked on another three months to its emergency declaration waiving some hours-of-service rules for pandemic-related trucking. The waiver that was first put into effect in March 2020 and was extended several times was to expire Tuesday. But it...
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FMCSA Asks: How Much Is The Industry Using The HOS Waiver?
Thursday, August 26, 2021 - 1:22pm | 782Read More...With another extension of the emergency hours-of-service waiver looming, federal regulators want the trucking industry to let them know to what extent carriers and drivers are actually taking advantage of the exemption. The first-of-its-kind, 50-state exemption was originally issued by the Federal...
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Roadcheck Week Results: HOS Violations A Bigger Share Of All Citations
Wednesday, August 4, 2021 - 4:41pm | 1016Read More...A comparison of the just-released results from International Roadcheck Week shows that hours-of-service (HOS) violations in both the U.S. and Canada rose as a percentage of all violations between 2020 and 2021. The data from the Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance shows most trends and percentages...
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Inside Hours-Of-Service Changes: How Driver Productivity, Safety Benefit
Wednesday, July 1, 2020 - 12:40pm | 1929Read More...If upcoming changes to hours-of-service (HOS) regulations provide the benefits the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) anticipates, carriers may have more productive drivers earning more money and compiling fewer HOS violations. It's too soon to tell how the adjustments, which...
