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US Truck Driver Hours of Service Rules to be Re-Written
So it did pass. Well add some more confusion to the mix. Proper revision is needed. More pot stirring with no real results is not. Will be interesting to see what actually comes out of this. The trucking industry needs to become more involved in this process and find a way to greater influence the outcome. This includes drivers not just corporations. Letting this all up to the delegates, auto groups and insurance industry is only going to hurt the trucking industry even more.
Let me share a posting from Jeffery Trainor at LinkedIn:
Breaking News: US Truck Driver Hours of Service Rules to be Re-Written
The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA), in response to a legal challenge to the current hours of service (HOS) regulations, will completely rewrite the 2008 HOS regulations. The agency will issue a proposed rulemaking within 9 months and a new Final Rule in less than two years.
This settlement is in response to a legal challenge brought against FMCSA by Public Citizen, Advocates for Highway and Auto Safety, the Truck Safety Coalition and the International Brotherhood of Teamsters. In March 2009, the groups asked a D.C. Appeals court to throw out the HOS rule. The March 2009 challenge was the third challenge to the Bush Administration’s HOS rules.
Posted by: The DOT Doctor AT 05:23 pm | Permalink | Email
CSA 2010 is Coming : Are you prepared?
We all know 1 truck or 1 million trucks, the DOT is coming. The free DOT HELP group we run on Yahoo addresses this issue with so many small companies. I speak with their "safety clerk", who professes they are clerical and haven't a clue, on how to conduct a safety department. Not only is this unsafe practices; the drivers walk all over them. Drivers are not stupid. They know when the safety person is clueless and they use that to their advantage. Can you blame them?
Having said this - I want to share a posting from LinkedIN
CSA2010.com states: “DON’T WAIT! What you and your drivers are doing RIGHT NOW will affect your company's new safety rating with CSA 2010. FMCSA assessment has already begun and will use the data they have been collecting to levy corrective actions or even declare drivers and companies “unfit” to continue service!”
Need help getting ready! Drop us a line - info@thedotdoctor.com
Remember Safety is everyone's business
Posted by: Dr. Andrea Sitler PhD AT 12:11 pm | Permalink | Email
Read this article on another site and felt it worth a mention. We teach fire prevention beginning in 1st grade. Maybe we should look at what these other countries are doing that places us so far behind them.
From: Virtual LAMP POSTm October 16, 2009
<http://cms.firehouse.com/content/article/printer.jsp?id=66049>
Fire officials in the State of Guanajuato in Mexico have a belief that the best fire department isn't the one that responds to the most calls. Rather, it's the one that prevents the most fire.
A new "best practices" report shows virtually the entire world does a far better job at reducing fire causalities than the United States by as much as 50 percent in some cases.
The final installment of a three-year study examining how 10 nations handle fire prevention in their countries was recently released. The report, commissioned by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), was researched and written by System Planning Corporation's TriData Division in Arlington , Va. The principal researcher was TriData's president Philip Schaenman .
"It's not that other nations are doing anything that we haven't tried, it's just that the scale in which they do it is just spectacular compared to what we do here in the United States," said Schaenman, who in the late 1970s and early 1980s, served as the U.S. Fire Administrator in charge of the National Fire Data Center.
Best Practices Report Part 1 (PDF)
http://www.firehouse.com/WorldStudyPart1.pdf
Best Practices Report Part 2 (PDF)
http://www.firehouse.com/WorldStudyPart2.pdf
Best Practices Report Part 3 (PDF)
http://www.firehouse.com/WorldStudyPart3.pdf
Posted by: The DOT Doctor AT 12:11 pm | Permalink | Email