FMCSA extends comment period on HOS proposal

[Dreamer]

OOIDA’s Landline: FMCSA extends comment period on HOS proposal

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration has extended the public comment period to March 4 on its hours-of-service proposal. The FMCSA is also hosting a public listening session Thursday, Feb. 17, in Arlington, VA, on its regulatory proposal that would revise hours of service. The public listening session will be held at the Crowne Plaza Washington National Airport Hotel, 1480 Crystal Drive, Arlington, VA. The entire listening session will be webcast live at www.fmcsa.dot.gov.

The goal of the listening session is to gather a broad range of comments, ideas and relevant data as the agency analyzes responses to its HOS regulatory proposal issued on Dec. 23, 2010.

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[Jefferson3000]

Good deal.

 

[moose]

From 60 to 65 days,big deal.
i already send 22 signed copy's of my comment letter

Wanna bet that hotel don't provide truck parking ?
beside ,hoe can make travel arrangement in one day.
Oh yha, big money can...

ever notice how that hotel is right in the back yards to all of those 'safety advocates' ?

they do whatever they can to screw professional drivers once more...

should have held that in Iowa80 ,or the Joplin Petro.

it is up to each and every one of us to make his voice herd on that matter , simply follow the EZ to follow guidelines in the above link ,and submit your comment .

 

[Vinnie T]

Shippers and consumers should be the ones protesting this the most.

The industry will adjust and bill accordingly in order to do business. Product needs to be shipped! The people paying the most will be consumers.

 

[greg334]

Shippers and consumers should be the ones protesting this the most.

The industry will adjust and bill accordingly in order to do business. Product needs to be shipped! The people paying the most will be consumers.

Did anyone ever think that this is one way to shift the freight industry from OTR trucking to regional trucking with rail hauling freight long distances?

 

[OntarioVanMan]

Did anyone ever think that this is one way to shift the freight industry from OTR trucking to regional trucking with rail hauling freight long distances?

Just look at all the new Intermodel rail yards being constructed..new distribution centers....it is happening...

 

[golfournut]

Last year I spoke with some folks at the CSX railyard here in Baltimore. Currently to transport one boxcar from here to California could take anywhere from 10 to 15 days depending on how many cuts that car needs from each train as it goes from railyard to railyard. Kind of like a FedEx or UPS pkg being shipped only more hubs for adding or deleting cars from a train. A cut, depending on how many cars need to come out of a train and how many need to go back in, is very time consuming. Then that car could sit there a day or so waiting for the transfer train to add it to its train to head further west. Currently not the most efficient way for continental shipping, but is less costly compared to a truck from A to B if time is not an issue. For security reasons they wouldn't tell me how far each locomotive would take a train, but they did say it is somewhat of a regional thing when it comes to freight trains for the most part. Some runs are longer than others. They wouldn't give me specifics for outside of Baltimore.

I don't remember the the log book restrictions, but a new crew is transported to the train and the other removed by a van. Then after a layover gets on a train to go back where they started.

In the barge industry on the inland waterways there could be up to 3 captains and crew sets on a barge to transport freight because you just can't pull over and park in a "barge stop".