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Senate subcommittee to hold hearing focusing on HOS

HOS saga continuing with reported Senate meeting regarding Hours of Service.

The Trucker Staff

WASHINGTON — The ever changing Hours of Service saga took another turn Friday when it was learned that the Senate Commerce Committee’s Surface Transportation and Merchant Marine Infrastructure, Safety and Security Subcommittee would hold a hearing focusing on HOS Dec. 6.

While a spokesperson for the subcommittee would not confirm the hearing would be held, saying only the subcommittee’s hearing schedule “had not been announced,” the American Trucking Associations confirmed that it had been asked to provide testimony at the hearing.

It is also expected that John Hill, administrator of the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, will be called to testify, sources said.

Hill has been quoted recently as saying FMCSA hoped to issue some type of “guidance” late this month on the agency’s revisions to the HOS rules, two portions of which were overturned by a federal court earlier this year.

In October, the court granted a stay until Dec. 27 of its ruling, allowing the 11 hours of driving time and the 34-hour restart rule to remain in place until that time.

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