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ATA asks court to stay hours ruling
By Avery Vise
The American Trucking Associations filed a motion Sept. 6 asking the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit to stay the effectiveness of its decision voiding the 11-hour and 34-hour restart provisions of the hours-of-service rules. A stay would leave the two provisions in place pending a review by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration.
ATA says its motion for a stay was necessary because FMCSA failed to respond to the group’s request for an interim final rule that would have readopted the 11-hour and 34-hour provisions for a short interim period. Without a request by some party to the case for a stay, the court’s decision could have become effective on Friday, Sept. 7.
The mere act of filing a motion for stay serves as a short-term stay because under normal procedures, the appeals court will consider responses to ATA’s motion during a period of approximately 14 days. So the 11-hour and 34-hour provisions should remain in effect at least until late September, ATA says. In addition, the delay gives FMCSA additional time to consider whether it wants to adopt an interim final rule as ATA previously requested.
The appeals court ruled July 24 that provisions of the HOS rule that allow 11 hours of driving before mandatory rest and a resetting of the cumulative duty-time limits following a 34-hour break were invalid because FMCSA failed to give proper notice of changes in the methodology it used for analyzing crash risk.
On July 31, ATA urged Transportation Secretary Mary Peters to seek a stay of the court's decision pending FMCSA review. As of Sept. 6, the government had not sought such a delay in the ruling's effectiveness. |
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