[Libloather]

Obamaville.

[org.whodat]

Wrong, this started way before obummer.

[Kenny500c]

They will drive faster and safety will be compromised.

[formosa]

Every new rule and regulation that comes out of this administration is created to employ the most amount of havoc and economic destruction they can incorporate into the daily lives of every breathing creature.

[Publius]

From Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged, Part 1. A group of regulations imposed by Wesley Mouch. One of them was:

Railroads are to slow down and run smaller trains, and to run an equal number of trains in multi-state districts designed by the government for just that purpose.

Familiar?

[patlin]

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Association (FMCSA) announced last month that its new rules for trucker scheduling will limit the number of hours a driver can work to 70 per week. Under the old rules, truckers could drive 82 hours per week.

Limit the number of hours from 82 to 70? For who? Long haul trucks haven't been able to go over 70 hrs per week for decades.

[Elsie]

Retailers warn economy will be slowed by new trucker scheduling rules

Oh it will not!

I can guarantee you that people WILL spend their money on SOMETHING.

What ELSE would they do with it?

Save it???

HAHAHAHA!

[xzins]

There are very few truckers who do 7 straight 11.7 hour days to total 82 hours a week. I don’t know any. Can’t say I ever met any. I’m sure they exist, but I’m thinking they’re not all that common. Maybe they meant team-driving.

[hoosierham]

I deal with truckers in my work,and too many drive tired.

Businesses want the stuff delivered but nobody wants to let the trucker park in THEIR lot and get some much-needed sleep.Truckers have falsified their driving logs for decades in order to keep their job.The trucking companies and their dispatchers routinely expect drivers to do whatever it takes,legal or not,to get the freight delivered on time.I’ve seen trucker who could hardly keep their head up splash water on their face and start another run.And truckers sick with the flu yet pushing 40 tons down the road.

The much-vaunted deregulation enriched a newly created class of brokers who took the profits that should have gone to the drivers.

And no,I don’t now,and never really wanted to drive a truck.But I’ve met thousands in my career and they are mostly good people trying to make a living.

[who_would_fardels_bear]

It says that there is already an 11 hour per day limit for drivers. So that means that legally a driver can only drive 77 hours per week.

So this would be just a 10% reduction in hours driven per day.

I don't see how this would lead to more trucks on the road. It would just mean 10% more truckers needed to put in the driving hours necessary to get the goods to where they need to go.

This is bad for those truckers that get paid by the hour and want all the hours they can get. This is good for truckers in general as it means a higher demand for truckers ... unless of course the 10% is filled by Mexican truck drivers.

This should be good for the average driver as there will be fewer sleepy truck drivers on the road.

The average consumer will see the delivery cost go up about 10% since trucking companies will have to hire more truckers.

Those who are against the 70 hour/wk limit should presumably be against any limit at all. So even the current 82 hour/wk limit should be anathema. If the average person only needs 8 hours of sleep, then truckers should be allowed to drive (24-8)*7 = 112 hrs/wk.

[hoosierham]

All the night driving and early deliveries is because the retailers don’t want to “waste” space having a stockroom.

The old saying was a city would be in trouble after 4 days without deliveries;I wonder how many now would have problems in 2 days?

The JIT meme is fine IF nothing ever breaks down.

[Drew68]

Trucking must be a miserable occupation these days. It's one of the few jobs that is always hiring. They'll even pay you while you're training.

So what's the catch?

[1010RD]

Nope, SOP for Cook County, IL.