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Agency working to ‘thoroughly analyze’ HOS study before sending it to Congress

Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration Spokesman Duane DeBruyne says FMCSA has finished collecting data for the MAP-21 mandated study on the Hours of Service restart provision and said “the agency is working to thoroughly analyze the findings and have the report peer-reviewed before sending it to Congress.”

He made the comments in response to media reports of comments made by Rep. Richard Hanna, R-NY, that FMCSA will miss the study’s Sept. 30 deadline.

The study only examines the 34-hour restart component of the HOS rule, and the MAP-21 restart field study was enacted after the HOS final rule was published and implementation was begun.

FMCSA was not asked to delay portions of the rule while the study was conducted.

Hanna was a major participant in sending a letter by 51 representatives to U.S. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx last month finding fault with HOS and stating that moving forward with the rule (which began being enforced July 1) before the study was completed was counter to commonsense.

Hanna vowed to “restore some commonsense to this flawed regulatory process.”

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