Bush Administration Trucking Rule Disregards Courts, Puts Lives At Risk, Public Citiz

[Truckingboards NewsBot]

WASHINGTON, D.C. – A Bush administration rule allowing truckers 11 hours a day behind the wheel imperils both truckers and the driving public, Public Citizen President Joan Claybrook told a Senate subcommittee Wednesday, shortly before the consumer group asked a federal court of appeals to enforce its earlier decision striking down the rule.

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[hillbilly frog]

the interim rule issued last week by FMCSA is identical to the one vacated in the summer. It allows trucking companies to force drivers to spend seven consecutive days on the road with only a 34-hour break before they must get back behind the wheel. That could force truckers to drive 88 hours in an eight-day period.

Which is exactly what King George instructs them to do I'm sure.

The Bush administration has created a “sweatshop on wheels” for truckers and is ignoring glaring statistics that show 5,000 people a year are killed in crashes involving large trucks, Claybrook said. Another 110,000 are seriously injured each year in those crashes.

Weird how politics make for strange bed fellows.

[Dirtball]

The Bush administration has created a “sweatshop on wheels” for truckers

I am not a Bush lover but this has been going on for a lot longer than hes been around. When trucks became rolling wharehouses this crap began. Remember we gotta have this yesterday. It doesn't matter that it is being shipped tomorrow.