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In the wake of Hurricane Sandy, the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration has announced that trucks carrying emergency-related materials to affected regions are exempt from the federal hours-of-service regulation, according to Overdrive Magazine.
The declaration of emergency allows commercial motor vehicles to forego the trucking safety regulation to help offer relief after the storm. Professional drivers with a CDL license will be able to bring post-disaster necessities like food and water to customers in a timely fashion.
"This exemption applies only to those operations providing direct assistance to the emergency relief effort," the declaration explained. "Direct assistance terminates when a driver or commercial motor vehicle is used in interstate commerce to transport cargo or provide services not destined for the emergency relief effort or when the motor carrier operation dispatches such driver or vehicle to another location to begin operations in furtherance of commerce."
Connecticut, Delaware, the District of Columbia, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, Virginia and West Virginia are all included in the exemption, the source reported.
The HOS waiver will remain active until midnight on November 13, 2012.
FMCSA suspends HOS regulation for vehicles helping hurricane relief effort
Tuesday, October 30th, 2012
In the wake of Hurricane Sandy, the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration has announced that trucks carrying emergency-related materials to affected regions are exempt from the federal hours-of-service regulation, according to Overdrive Magazine.
