> It has pushed to allow truck drivers to work 82 hours a week, up from the current 70 hours over eight days, by eliminating the requirement that drivers take a

> It has pushed to allow truck drivers to work 82 hours a week, up from the current 70 hours over eight days, by eliminating the requirement that drivers take a two-day rest break each week; There was a different problem with the two-day rest break: > Must include two periods from 1 a.m. to 5 a.m. home terminal time. Because obviously the trucking industry shouldn't be working graveyard. That's the part that was suspended. It screws with scheduling. 1 a.m. to 5 a.m. is arbitrary. http://www.fmcsa.dot.gov/regulations/hours-service/summary-hours-service-regulations http://www.fmcsa.dot.gov/regulations/hours-service/summary-h... > discouraged the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration from investing in wireless technology designed to improve the monitoring of drivers and their vehicles; Either this is VERY recent news or just misleading. This is happening as far as everyone can tell. The mandate for electronic logging devices in all vehicles should be coming down late September, with a deadline of October 2017. http://www.ccjdigital.com/e-log-mandate-advances-fmcsa-sends-rule-to-white-house-for-approval/ http://www.ccjdigital.com/e-log-mandate-advances-fmcsa-sends... http://www.overdriveonline.com/eld-mandate-poised-to-begin-two-year-countdown http://www.overdriveonline.com/eld-mandate-poised-to-begin-t...