OTTAWA, Ont. -- Organizations from across the continent, including trucking associations, shippers and law enforcement agencies, have panned the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration's proposed Hours-of-Service rule through official submissions to the agency.
The Canadian Trucking Alliance (CTA) has said the proposed changes will have a significant negative impact on the efficiency and productivity of the North American supply chain and would be particularly disruptive to the shipment of US exports with no appreciable benefit to driver safety.
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The US Chamber of Commerce has also weighed in with comments for the FMCSA, calling the proposal a "direct contradiction" of President Obama's order to reduce burdensome regulation on business. "If implemented in its current form, this regulation would be a model for such regulation that actually produces lower safety standards while simultaneously hurting business productivity in the domestic and global supply chain," the organization said in its comments.
Comments were taken from the public regulatory docket FMCSA opened for its proposal.
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