{"id":1492,"date":"2013-12-02T10:00:32","date_gmt":"2013-12-02T16:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/injury.robertkreisman.com\/?p=1492"},"modified":"2013-11-29T09:19:45","modified_gmt":"2013-11-29T15:19:45","slug":"new-regulations-for-truck-driver-hours-of-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/new-regulations-for-truck-driver-hours-of-service\/","title":{"rendered":"New Regulations for Truck Driver Hours of Service"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--[if gte mso 9]&gt;--><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Many truck accidents are caused by truck driver fatigue.<span>\u00a0<\/span>There are new federal restrictions on the number of hours a driver can be in service under the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fmcsa.dot.gov\/\">Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration<\/a> (FMCSA), which created the hours-of-service rules.<span>\u00a0<\/span>Under these new rules, a driver is limited with respect to how long he or she may drive a commercial motor vehicle without a break.<span>\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Truck accidents and truck driver fatigue are linked based on many years of study.<span>\u00a0<\/span>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.infoplease.com\/encyclopedia\/history\/interstate-commerce-commission.html\">Interstate Commerce Commission<\/a> began limiting hours in which a commercial truck driver could operate a truck beginning in 1937.Recently, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dot.gov\/\">Department of Transportation (DOT) <\/a>has emphasized the need to limit the hours that a truck driver may drive without a break.<span>\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The purpose behind the revised regulations deals with the connection between truck driver fatigue and accidents on the highways.<span>\u00a0<\/span>It is well known that a driver who has driven for many hours is at greater risk of a crash than one without extended hours on the road.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/new-regulations-for-truck-driver-hours-of-service\/#more-1492\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many truck accidents are caused by truck driver fatigue.\u00a0There are new federal restrictions on the number of hours a driver can be in service under the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA), which created the hours-of-service rules.\u00a0Under these new rules, a driver is limited with respect to how long he or she may drive a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":795,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[38,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-federal-law","category-truck-accidents"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>New Regulations for Truck Driver Hours of Service &#8212; 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