FMCSA Announces New Regulations
Changes Coming October 1, 2005
The FMCSA announced new regulations which will go into effect October 1, 2005, a scant
forty-two days after announcement.
Fortunately, they are allowing a three-month phase-in
period (through December 31, 2005) to allow for training, reprogramming, etc. (see
FMCSA Press Release for details)
Among the more notable changes:
- 34-hour consecutive rests will always reset a driver for the 60/7 and 70/8 rules
- Sleeper splits are going to require one of the rest segments be a minimum of eight hours,
while the matching split can be any combination of off-duty or sleeper time
- The 16-hour exemption can be applied twice in seven days for "local log"
operators (with a 150 mile air-radius)
Eclipse's development team has reviewed the new rules and believes that many of the
"gray areas" from the previous 2003 regulations have been eliminated and simplified.
While
implementing the new rules will be a substantial undertaking due to the new way in
which sleeper splits function, it is our best opinion at this time that RapidLog will
easily support the new regulations by the end of the transition period (Deceumber 31, 2005)
and possibly much sooner.
As we program the new regulations, we will post updates as to progress on our Home
page at http://www.rapidlog.com.
More Details
FMCSA Announcement
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