Congress Completes Truck-Driver Hours-of-Service Fix

Special legislation, in the form of a Continuing Resolution, that contains language to fix the legislative glitch that threatened use of a 34-hour restart as part of the hours-of-service rule for truck drivers passed the Senate late Friday night, Dec. 9.

The 63-36 vote came less than an hour before the midnight deadline that would have triggered a government shutdown. President Obama signed the measure shortly after the Senate took action.

The trucking-specific provision within the C.R. requires that DOT “follow the existing 34-hour restart hours of service rule for truck drivers to ensure continuity in federal rest regulations, should the report on the rule (mandated in prior Acts) not meet the criteria set by Congress.”

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