A federal court sitting in Washington DC has struck the administration’s rules increasing the administration’s 2005 decision to increase the maximum driving hours of truck drivers. The Court indicated the FMCSA had ignored the results of a study, which indicated a substantially higher risk of fatigue-related accidents in the extra hours of service allowed by the new rules.
The hours had been increased from 60 to 77 over a period of seven consecutive days, and from 70 to 88 over eight consecutive days.
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