Trucking
New regulations will change
the trucking industry.
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As
much as truck drivers are worried about their paycheck after the
new trucking rules will take effect, carriers are equally concerned
about the loss of hours during loading and unloading. The trucking
industry as a whole is not happy with the new trucking rules, because
there is strong belief that wages will be lost and also the productivity
will suffer a great deal of loss.
Trucking
companies are also concerned because of the cost of hiring more
drivers and buying more trucks. Some
trucking companies are even concerned that they have to close
their doors or cheat on the new HOS rules.
The breaking of the new rules will be no walk in the park for the
trucking industry. HOS violations could cause a truck driver to
be placed out of service; drivers and carriers could face fines
of $550 to $11,000 per violation.
Shippers
and receivers are also effected by these new HOS rules. When drivers
are delayed more then 1 hour, charges must be assessed and paid
by those causing the delay. Shippers and receivers have to solve
this problem. We hope, if charges will be assessed that the trucking
industry will forward these assessments to the drivers because they
are the ones who will loose the most when their wheels aren't turning.
The
trucking industry estimated that with a 10 percent decrease in productivity
their will be a need for an additional 200,000 to 300,000 drivers
in the United States.
Therefore, the industry has to make truck driving more attractive
to get more drivers.
The bottom line is, that rates will go up and will effect a weak
economy. The consumer will at the end pay for the new HOS rules,
lets all hope that the truck driver will not pay also because his
paycheck he is taking home is less then before the new rules took
effect.
The
following advice was issued from the industry:
Invest in and deploy communications technology.
Communicate the impacts of the new HOS rules to individual shippers
and receivers.
Do not blind-side transportation purchasers with a double digit
rate increase in January, instead, they advised, start an honest
dialog now.
Encourage shippers to work with their consignees and train drivers
to understand the rules on both sides of the border.
Don't cheat, penalties are stiff and lives are at risk and prepare
for additional demands on capacity, it will take more drivers to
move the same amount of freight.
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