ATA Files to Intervene on Hours-of-Service Rule
American Trucking Associations has filed a motion to intervene in the third legal challenge by the Teamsters union and three other groups to federal truck driver hours-of-service rules.
ATA said late Thursday it was intervening to protect the interests of its motor carrier members, having participated in the administrative process and the prior court cases around HOS.
The HOS rules were first put in place in 2004 and challenged multiple times by the group Public Citizen and other groups, who earlier this week filed another lawsuit challenging the rules.
Based on the groups’ recently rejected petitions for reconsideration filed with the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, it’s expected that the groups will argue that scientific studies do not support the retention of the 11th hour of driving and 34-hour restart components of the HOS rules.
Twice before, lawsuits against FMCSA over the same HOS regulations failed to invalidate the science and safety of the regulations, ATA said.
The group reiterated that it “FMCSA has done an outstanding job explaining the scientific underpinnings of its decision to retain the HOS provisions.”
