US Court of Appeals Stays Mandate of Hours of Service Rule
The US
Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia has stayed its manadate
overturning the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration's (FMCSA) Hours of
Service 11-hour driving limit and the 34-hour restart provisions.
The mandate is stayed until December 27, 2007. In the court's inital
vacating of the driving provisions, it had indicated that FMCSA had failed to
provide sufficent justification for the proposed driving provisions.
Presumably, FMCSA will use the additional approximately 90 days to provide
sufficient justification for the proposed changes. The American Trucking
Associations had requested an 8 month stay and the FMCSA had asked for a 12
month stay.
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