This week, the House Transportation & Infrastructure Subcommittee on Highways and Transit held a hearing that looked at the role of federal regulations as it pertains to Commercial Motor Vehicle Safety, including Hours of Service regulations. AGC submitted a statement outlining our transportation reauthorization priorities on issues affecting the construction industry under the jurisdiction of the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration.
These priorities include, expanding the current construction industry exemption from Federal Hours of Service Regulations (HOS), extending the HOS exemption for construction transportation in emergency circumstances, expanding the construction industry exclusion to eliminate the 30-minute rest period requirement, deferring the implementation of the new restart provisions in the new truck driver HOS regulations that became effective July 1, 2013, and applying a construction exemption to the requirement that all motor carriers who maintain Record of Duty status for HOS recordkeeping use electronic logging devices.
AGC will continue to push for the inclusion of these priorities as Congress works on completing a surface transportation reauthorization bill.
For more information, please contact Sean O’Neill at oneills@agc.org or (202) 547-8892.