Hours of Service Changes and Driver Fatigue: Pausing the 14-Hour HOS Clock Laws regarding truck drivers and their hours of service were first established in the U.S. in 1938 by the now-defunct Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC) to guard against driver fatigue. Since 1938 and before 2020, the HOS rules were changed just four times and…
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Coronavirus Pandemic Update: Is Trucking Life Returning to Normal? While truckers, companies, and the government have made great strides to protect the trucking industry from the coronavirus and get it back to normal, concerns still abound. Empty miles are up, new freight contracts are down, and more truckers than ever are out of work or…
