Cirillo to Urge Some Changes to Driver Work Rule Proposal

(Michael James - TT) Julie Cirillo is the acting head of the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration.

Julie A. Cirillo, acting head of the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, said she would recommend incorporating some of trucking’s suggestions in the agency’s next attempt at revising its driver hours-of-service rules.

But she also said she would counsel against yielding to trucking’s demands to increase the maximum number of hours drivers would be permitted to work each day, or on the provision that trucks be equipped with electronic hours-of-service recorders.

Cirillo offered these insights during testimony May 9 before the House Transportation Appropriations subcommittee.

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