The two senior-ranking House Republican members said the Obama administration should withdraw proposed regulations for truck drivers’ hours-of-service, Bloomberg reported.
House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) and Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) said revised HOS rules would raise costs and hurt the U.S. economy, Bloomberg said.
The regulations are an instance where the White House and Congress can work together to lift a potential “$1 billion in regulatory burden,” Boehner and Cantor said today in a letter addressed to Obama.
“Current rules have led to record low levels of crashes and fatalities involving trucks,” the two wrote, Bloomberg reported.
The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration — part of the Department of Transportation — is considering a proposed HOS rule that could cut a full hour of allowable driving time out of the legal workday for commercial drivers.
The move follows a recent call by Rep. John Mica (R-Fla.), chairman of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, who said last month his panel “will aggressively oversee any attempt by DOT to impose new regulatory burdens on the trucking industry by making changes to the current rules.”
