With the first significant overhaul of federal hours of service regulations in over 15 years taking effect in a little over a month, FMCSA’s Joe DeLorenzo, the agency’s chief for the office of ...

How the hours of service rules for truck drivers ever became a safety regulation is a question that has vexed many in the industry. The rules came into being in the 1930s as a combination of labor and ...

Work exhaustion and lack of effectiveness to properly carry out job functions to the highest standards put people at risk on a railroad. The Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) makes it a strong ...

In what the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration chief called a “common-sense approach,” the agency has proposed five key revisions to truck driver hours-of-service rules. The changes were made ...

THIS ARTICLE outlines interim enforcement policies for certain sections of the new hours-of-service (HOS) regulations taking effect Jan 4, 2004. The American Trucking Associations (ATA) has petitioned ...