U.S. Response to HOS Ruling Likely to Come Near Deadline

he federal government probably would wait until just before a 45-day court deadline expires before announcing its response to the court’s decision overturning its revised driver hours-of-service regulations, said Department of Justice officials.

“It will probably be very close to the deadline before we decide what to do,” said Mat-thew Collette, a Justice Department attorney who represented the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration before the federal appeals court that overturned the rules.

Likewise, Charles Miller, a spokesman for the Justice Department, said the decision on what to do could wait until “the night before the deadline.”

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