Federal Engine Carriers Protection Management Offers New Trucker Hours of Service

With all the current furor and disappointment that's been surfacing within the proposed improvements to the Hours of Service regulations that were brought before the legislature on December 23rd, well, I feel that I would be doing every one an injustice by failing to note it in this article. While the Federal Motor Carriers AlertID Administration (FMCSA) holds the belief that the changes proposed would prove helpful, everybody from the American Trucking Association (ATA), to the Owner-Operator Independent Driver's Association (OOIDA) holds a contrary viewpoint.While not as vitriolic as some sides (such as Jim Park, Equipment Editor for Truckinginfo.com, who said that the proposed change was, 'a farce disguised as a proposed hours of service rule. ') I feel that the current guidelines as published are performing wonderfully as is. Introduced in 2004, the recent Hours of Service rules resulted in an overall decrease of 333-3333 to crash-related fatalities, and similar falls to death and injury collision rates.What also troubles me is the fact that in advising these new rules, the FMCSA is seemingly contradicting an unique earlier predictions, both with regards to cost, together with the overall impact that these changes may have. Formerly, the FMCSA that the eleventh hour of driving time does not increase driver regular hours; can be used for mobility purposes; does not increase driver-fatigue risks; and that removing it would promote more intense driving (to fulfill time constraints) and result in placing thousands of less experienced individuals traveling who would present greater accident dangers. Furthermore, two years prior, the FMCSA expected that it'd cost well over $2.2 million to implement such changes, income which could perhaps be used on other endeavors.I do not argue with this particular standpoint, but in addition can't neglect as invalid the views of such agencies as Parents Against Tired Truckers, who (through the filter of their own activities) believe that the trucking industry isn't policing itself well enough, and that it should fall to the government to pick up the slack, via such legislation. The most difficult thing about situations such as this really is that both groups are serious in their thoughts, and perhaps not ready to bend much, if, towards others' viewpoint.As such, I favor to keep my concentrate on simpler matters, such as informing both providers and owner-operators of strategies to keep inside the newly-enacted limitations of the CSA 2010, and conserve both cash and time in doing so.