Government agency maintains 11-hour limit on truckers hours, instead of proposed change to 10The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration on Tuesday maintained a regulation that allows truck drivers to stay on the road for 11 hours in a row, rather than a limit of 10.
In a conference call, administrator John Hill said that there was no evidence that safety of travelers is jeopardized by having truck drivers on the road for 11 hours.
Safety advocates say the industry is putting the public at risk by allowing truckers to drive too many hours.
The trucking industry's main trade group, the American Trucking Association, has been a proponent of maintaining the 11-hour limit, arguing that further limiting trucker's hours would have been costly and would have required the industry to retrain drivers and operating personnel, reprint logs, reengineer routes and make other changes.
A spokeswoman for the group said the ATA was pleased with the decision and noted that current safety rules, first established in 2004, have already resulted in safer highways. The ATA represents companies including UPS Inc. and YRC Worldwide Inc.
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