As founding president and CEO of Tri-National, Inc., Robert Rogulic oversees door-to-door trucking service across North America. Robert Rogulic maintains an in-depth knowledge of all government trucking regulations.
In December of 2014, the United States government suspended a reportedly problematic element of the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration's Hours-of-Service rules for truckers. These regulations state that a driver must cease operations after 60 hours on duty in seven consecutive days or 70 hours in eight consecutive days. A driver may resume after a 34-hour period off duty, though a 2013 addition to the legislation required that this period include two blocks of time between 1 a.m. and 5 a.m., and limited the use of the restart rule to once per 168 hours. An addendum to the 2015 Omnibus Appropriations Bill removed both the 1 a.m. and 5 a.m. requirement and the 168-hour rule. Drivers can now restart more than once per week and can take 34-hour breaks unrestricted by clock times. Trucking industry research group FTR estimates that the change will increase industry productivity by 2 percent, following a 3 percent to 7 percent productivity reduction since the 2013 legislation came into effect.
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