If you missed the Great American Trucking Show or the agency’s webcast last week, you can sit in on the first hour and more of the hours of service listening session held at GATS in Dallas Aug. 23, 2019, via the video above and/or podcast player below. This was the first listening session held by the FMCSA following its introduction of a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking that offered some changes to truckers aimed at increasing both safety and some measure of flexibility for drivers.
Two significant elements of that were revisions to split-sleeper-berth regs as well as the proposal to allow up to a three-hour pause to the 14-hour duty clock daily with an off-duty mid-period break. Read more about the proposed changes via this link.
Comment on the proposal at Regulations.gov via this link.
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At the end of this selection from the listening session, you’ll hear FMCSA reps reading from a commentary with a particular question about the proposed split-sleeper changes in the hours of service NPRM. There are two central aspects to those changes.
