Trucking and shippers groups reacted swiftly and negatively to the Department of Transportation’s final hours-of-service rule, citing the potential for more congestion and saying it will not improve highway safety.
On the other side of the issue, a citizens’ safety group also said the rule was flawed, though for different reasons.
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The final rule “puts safety in the back seat,” American Trucking Associations said in a statement following the rule’s release Thursday.
“Even with an uptick in truck-involved fatalities in 2010, since the current rules went into effect in 2004, fatalities have fallen 29.9%, even as overall miles traveled for trucks has risen by tens of billions of miles,” said ATA Chairman Dan England, chairman of truckload carrier C.R. England.
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