League Continues Fight to Keep Unrestricted 34-Hour Restart

The League, the trucking industry and their customers joined together this week in asking Congress to keep the Department of Transportation (DOT) from moving backward on a key element of truck driver hours of service (HOS) regulations.  The Senate Appropriations Committee is drafting its fiscal year 2017 “T-HUD” bill, legislation to direct how funds may be used by the DOT (and Housing and Urban Development.) This week, over 90 organizations asked senators to keep a successful driver rest rule in place by fixing a technical problem in previously passed legislation. READ MORE