Rules that limit daily hours truckers can drive could be relaxed

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{"text":"OPAL, Va. — Editor's note: The video above is from March 2019, and reports on a trucker protest in Georgia over working conditions.\n\n\nTruck driver Lucson Francois was forced to hit the brakes just five minutes from his home in Pennsylvania.\n\n\nHe'd reached the maximum number of hours in a day he's allowed to be on duty. Francois couldn't leave the truck unattended. So he parked and climbed into the sleeper berth in the back of the cab. Ten hours would have to pass before he could start driving again.\n\n\n\"You don't want even a one-minute violation,\" said Francois, a 39-year-old Haitian immigrant, recalling his dilemma during a break at a truck stop in this small crossroads town southwest of Washington.\n\n\nThe Transportation Department is moving to relax the federal regulations that required Francois to pull over, a long sought goal of the trucking industry and a move that would highlight its influence with the Trump administration. Interest groups that represent motor carriers and truck drivers have lobbied for revisions they say would make the rigid \"hours of service\" rules more flexible.\n\n\nBut highway safety advocates are warning the contemplated changes would dangerously weaken the regulations, resulting in truckers putting in even longer days at a time when they say driver fatigue is such a serious problem. They point to new government data that shows fatal crashes involving trucks weighing as much as 80,000 pounds have increased.\n\n\nRead more:\nhttps://www.wcnc.com/article/news/rules-that-limit-daily-hours-truckers-can-drive-could-be-relaxed/507-4953f263-0a77-402f-9cce-45776ea2f395 ","videos":"[]","link":"{}","pics":"[]","canComment":true}

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625878 发表于 2019-07-02 04:04:52 When you are that close to destination, you are allowed to put the ELD on P.C. \n\nIt is very obvious this driver didn’t want to go home

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{"replyTo":"","text":"Funny. Happened to me last week. I was 12 minutes short of making back to the yard. Pulled over for my 10.","replyToPid":0}