Kansas City Hours Hearing Draws More Than 200 Truckers
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The hours-of-service road show came to the Midwest on June 14 and 15 as the Department of Transportation held the fourth of eight public hearings on its proposal to revamp the regulations governing the amount of time truck and bus drivers could spend behind the wheel.
A panel of DOT officials sat in a dusty auditorium usually reserved for livestock shows and listened to 110 witnesses raise concerns about the proposal. The witnesses were eclectic in nature, ranging from a one-legged driver who worried that the shift to 12-hour limit on driving would put him out of business to the president of a large truckload carrier who damned the authors of the reforms as “well meaning” but not very knowledgeable about the industry.
“With your proposal, all my hard work to get my status back will be for nothing,” he said.
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Bill Daniels, a driver for Prime Inc. in Springfield, Mo., described his struggle to rebuild his career after losing a limb and getting a DOT waiver to resume work.
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