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FMCSA scraps split-sleeper berth study amid press for hours reforms
The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration has canceled a study meant to gauge the safety aspects of allowing truck drivers to split their on- and off-duty time into segments. The agency’s new — and pressing — move to propose changes to hours of service regulations has rendered the study moot, according to sources familiar with the agency’s decision, including a senior official at FMCSA.
David Heller, vice president of regulatory affairs for the Truckload Carriers Association, said a high-level official at the agency told him in late October that the study had been nixed. The FMCSA official said then that the “study is no longer needed,” Heller says, because of the advanced notice of proposed rulemaking (ANPRM) published in August that sought feedback on ways to potentially reform hours of service regulations.