Retailers warn economy will be slowed by new trucker scheduling rules

The Hill ^ | 1/12/12 | Keith Laing

[savagesusie]

and force more hours to the Mexican truckers.

[aimhigh]

..truckers could drive 82 hours per week.

I thought slavery was outlawed. I'm all for this change.

[Grams A]

and force more hours to the Mexican truckers.”

We drove back from southeast Colorado to southeast Texas over Christmas. Grandson and I kept track of the number of trucks we passed which had a Mexico or Canada address on their rig. Less than 10% were from the U.S. Once it turned Midnight not many trucks on the road but the service areas were jammed with them stopping for a few hours rest.

[Alberta's Child]

These FMCSA hours-of-service rules have undergone multiple changes over the last ten years. This is just the latest generation, with other major changes in 2002 and 2005.

[1010RD]

Nope, SOP for Cook County, IL.

[1010RD]

Familiar?

Yes, try FDR and look up Wickard v. Filburn.

[1010RD]

This is good for truckers in general as it means a higher demand for truckers.

And here I thought this was a conservative site. Why not just reduce the max hours down to 38.5 and double the number of truckers needed? No wait, you could eliminate trucks and then get the donkey breeders employed!

There's a real need for basic economics training here on FR. Read Bastiat, Smith, and look up FEE or Austrian Economics. In the meantime, stop commenting on economic issues. FDR was wrong.

[tcrlaf]

“This should be good for the average driver as there will be fewer sleepy truck drivers on the road.”

No, it just means more will be cheating on the logbooks.

The easiest way to control someone is to make a criminal of them

[hoosierham]

Cheating on the logbooks(which has always been common) is becoming rather harder with the installation of computerized logging systems onboard the truck.Big companies are doing this for liability reasons and I heard these devices will be mandatory in trucks in a couple years by federal law.Well,maybe only in U.S. trucks...

[who_would_fardels_bear]

And I thought reading comprehension was a prerequisite for understanding the works of the Austrian economists.

Silly me.

[Brad from Tennessee]

[Where do you suppose the waste goes when the truck has a outhouse hole in the floor?]

Getting off the subject, I’m old enough to remember when the toilets of passenger trains flushed directly onto the tracks. Conductors would lock the bathroom doors when the train was stopped at a station.

[Domandred]

Must have been a lot from Canada because only 2 or 3 carriers have been approved for Mexico to USA cross border, totaling as many trucks. One of those trucks being a straight hauling sea food in the Tijuana to San Diego area.

As much as people are freaking out about Mexican trucks coming up here the Mexicans don’t want to mess around with the FMCSA and on-board recorders that they’d be required to use.

Earlier this week Lockridge was reporting that only 6 carriers total had even applied. So chances are you didn’t see all that many trucks from Mexico.

Just sayin...