The two senior-ranking House Republican members said the Obama administration should withdraw proposed regulations for truck drivers’ hours-of-service, Bloomberg reported.
House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) and Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) said revised HOS rules would raise costs and hurt the U.S. economy, Bloomberg said.
The regulations are an instance where the White House and Congress can work together to lift a potential “$1 billion in regulatory burden,” Boehner and Cantor said today in a letter addressed to Obama.
“Current rules have led to record low levels of crashes and fatalities involving trucks,” the two wrote, Bloomberg reported.
The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration — part of the Department of Transportation — is considering a proposed HOS rule that could cut a full hour of allowable driving time out of the legal workday for commercial drivers.
The move follows a recent call by Rep. John Mica (R-Fla.), chairman of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, who said last month his panel “will by making changes to the current rules.”
