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: New Orleans Personal Injury LawyerNew Rules on Trucking Hours Struck Down by Appeals Court
By Jenny Albano
A federal appeals court voided a new rule that increased limits on the amount of hours truck drivers could drive in a week. The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration increased the maximum driving hours for truck drivers to 77 hours from 60 over 7 days, and 88 hours from 70 over 8 days, in 2005.
The United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit said that there was not enough evidence provided to justify and support the safety of the increase in driving hours for truck drivers. The court found that the agency ignored that results of a study that showed 50,000 trucking accidents from 1991 to 2002. The study found that there is a substantially higher risk of fatigue-related accidents since the new rules were put into action.
Full post as published by New Orleans Personal Injury Lawyer on July 26, 2007 (boomark / email).
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