The U.S. Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration plans to issue a supplemental hours-of-service proposed rule that could involve small concessions to trucking.
Transportation Secretary Rodney E. Slater announced the agency’s plans Thursday, in an effort to diffuse lobbying efforts by the trucking industry to get Congress to kill hours-of-service reform in the 2001 transportation budget.
The secretary could provide no details about what changes to the proposal the supplemen-tal rule would make, or when it would be issued. But he did say changes would be based on public comments and information uncovered during three recently scheduled hours of service roundtables.
Slater said that the plan to issue a supplemental rulemaking based on stakeholder input was evidence that “the process was still open and we are still open.”
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