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Sometimes, half a loaf just isn’t enough. And that’s especially true when that half a loaf actually consists of something bad that the other guy didn’t do to you after he had threatened to do so.

American Trucking Associations asked a federal appeals court on Tuesday to review the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration’s recently published hours-of-service rule, citing “changed assumptions” by the agency that went into developing the rule.

After all the evidence is weighed, there is only one conclusion: CSA in its present form is not a trustworthy tool for either the FMCSA or the public at large to use in qualifying carriers.

The new hours-of-service rules passed recently by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration are a concern for us because our drivers rely on the 34-hour reset as it stands now.

A controversial 34-hour restart provision in the new hours-of-service rule will help ensure that truck drivers do not experience cumulative fatigue, Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration Administrator Anne Ferro told Transport Topics.

Representatives of the bus travel industry told federal regulators Monday that hours-of-service rules for interstate bus drivers need not be changed, while drivers asked for more restrictions, the Fort Worth Star-Telegram reported.

Once again, the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration of the U.S. Department of Transportation has failed to put forth common sense with regards to longhaul truckers’ hours of service.

At least some trucking industry analysts said they expect the latest version of the hours-of-service rule to land back in federal court because the rule seems to satisfy no one.

The top Republican on the House Transportation Committee said Friday he is “concerned” that the federal government may lack adequate data to support the new hours-of-service rule it published last month.