House Panel Schedules Hearing on HOS Rule
Anne Ferro, head of the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, will testify before a House hearing on the hours-of-service rule for truck drivers that went into effect in July.
The hearing is set for Nov. 21 by the Small Business Committee’s subcommittee on contracting and workforce.
The subcommittee chairman is Rep. Richard Hanna (R-N.Y.), who introduced a bill Oct. 30 to suspend the 34-hour restart provision within the new HOS rule.
Hanna’s bill would suspend the rule until six months after the Government Accountability Office completes an independent assessment of the methodology FMCSA used in writing the 34-hour restart regulation.
The title of the hearing is “Wrong Way: the Impact of FMCSA’s House of Service Regulation on Small Businesses.”
Tilden Curl Jr. of Tecco Trucking in Olympia, Wash., is scheduled to testify on behalf of the Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association, while Duane Long, chairman of Longistics, will speak for American Trucking Associations.
Also testifying will be Brian Evans, president of L&L Freight Services in Cabot, Ark.; and Paul Jovanis, an engineering professor and director of the transportation operations program at the Larson Transportation Institute at Pennsylvania State University.
