Trucking News: DOT's Chao calls hours-of-service rules 'inflexible'

[Mike]

U.S. Department of Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao described the current hours-of-service regulations as “inflexible” during a U.S. Senate subcommittee hearing on Wednesday, March 27.

The comment was in response to a question from Sen. John Hoeven, R-N.D., about the Modernizing Agricultural Transportation Act, which would provide regulatory relief for the transportation of agricultural products.

“Well, this is what happens when there’s a one-size-fits-all solution – it doesn’t work across the country because our country is so diverse,” Chao said. “And obviously with electronic logging devices, that created hardships for small truckers and also created hardships for agricultural interests, farmers, people who are hauling in rural areas.

DOT's Chao calls hours-of-service rules 'inflexible'

 

[Ontario Outlaw]

Dumb

 

[Mike]

Dumb

she is agreeing with the majority of us, why is it dumb?

 

[Ontario Outlaw]

she is agreeing with the majority of us, why is it dumb?

That it took this long to realize

 

[Mike]

That it took this long to realize

It's basically what I preached for a long time here on the forum while everyone was raising hell about the ELD. The ELD was the only thing that could bring the flaws of HOS to light.

It happened pretty quickly, actually.

 

[Electric Chicken]

It's basically what I preached for a long time here on the forum while everyone was raising hell about the ELD. The ELD was the only thing that could bring the flaws of HOS to light.

It happened pretty quickly, actually.

Yeah everyone was getting mad at the device. The device is a good thing.

HoS is what sucks. HoS can't be fixed without data. Hiding it on paper provides no data.