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Appeals court upholds FMCSA preemption over California meal/rest breaks
ATA calls ruling ‘victory for common sense over bureaucracy’ California rest break laws preempted by federal HOS regs. (Photo: Jim Allen/FreightWaves)
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit has upheld a determination by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) that California cannot enforce state meal and rest break (MRB) rules that conflict with federal hours-of-service regulations.
The FMCSA’s determination, made in December 2018, granted petitions submitted by the American Trucking Associations and the Specialized Carriers and Rigging Association and was quickly appealed by the International Brotherhood of Teamsters and the state of California.
In a loss for California labor officials and the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, a federal appeals court on Friday upheld the Trump administration’s determination that federally regulated trucking firms do not have to provide drivers with meal and rest breaks otherwise.
Regulators propose more sleeper berth flexibility
FMCSA to evaluate allowing drivers to have 6/4 and 5/5 split rest periods FMCSA looking for 200-400 drivers for sleeper berth project. (Photo: Jim Allen/FreightWaves)
The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) is looking for drivers to participate in a proposed pilot program to evaluate splitting the 10-hour sleeper berth rest time into 6/4 and 5/5 periods.
According to the proposal announced on Thursday, which will be open to comments for 60 days after publishing in the Federal Register, FMCSA wants to recruit 200 to 400 commercial driver’s license (CDL) holders who regularly use the sleeper berth provision. The agency wants to include drivers from small, medium and large carriers as well as team drivers and owner-operators.