California Motor Carriers Rest Easy: 9th Circuit Upholds Preemption of California Meal and Rest Break Rules | Arent Fox
Background The FMCSA is a federal agency within the Department of Transportation tasked with issuing regulations on commercial motor vehicle safety. Coupled with that power, the FMCSA is authorized to decide whether state laws on the same topic of safety are preempted. In 2018, the FMCSA made a determination that federal law – the FMCSA’s own rest break regulations – preempts the CA MRB Rules as applied to drivers of property-carrying commercial motor vehicles. Previously, in 2008, the FMCSA declined to preempt the CA MRB Rules as applied in this context, finding that it lacked authorit...
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