The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration is asking truck drivers and industry stakeholders for information about driver detention times at shipping and receiving facilities and the potential impacts those delays have on highway safety.

1. FMCSA asking for feedback
from truckers on detention time

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“The Federal Motor
Carrier Safety
Administration is asking
truck drivers and industry
stakeholders for
information about driver
detention times at
shipping and receiving
facilities and the potential
impacts those delays have
on highway safety.”-
According to the article in
overdriveonline.com and
its author Matt Cole.

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“Specifically, the agency is looking for information on whether data is currently available on
accurately recording loading, unloading and delay times; if technology is available to compare
prompt loading and unloading times to extended delays; what the agency should use as an
estimate of reasonable loading/unloading time; what the agency can do to help reduce loading
and unloading times; and more. A full list of questions can be found in the notice here. “- Cole
also wrote in his article.
FMCSA will accept public comments for 90 days — until Sept. 10 — when the notice is
published in the Federal Register. Comments can be made at www.regulations.gov by
searching Docket No. FMCSA-2019-0054.
www.itrucker.com

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In 2018 Office of Inspector General at U.S. Department of Transportation released a report, in
which they wrote” estimated that a 15-minute increase in average dwell time—the total time
spent by a truck at a facility—increases the average expected crash rate by 6.2 percent. In
addition, we estimated that detention is associated with reductions in annual earnings of $1.1
billion to $1.3 billion for for-hire commercial motor vehicle drivers in the truckload sector. For
motor carriers in that sector, we
estimated that detention reduces net income by $250.6 million to $302.9 million annually.”
But according to FMCSA , while the OIG and other studies were able to estimate overall wait
times, “they were not able to separate normal loading and unloading times (e.g., the time it
would usually take to load and unload a commercial motor vehicle under typical schedules)
from detention time (delays in the start of the loading and unloading process that disrupt the
driver’s available driving and/or on-duty time). This is a critical data gap in our understanding
of the detention issue.”-John Gallagher wrote in his article.
www.itrucker.com

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Source:
https://www.itrucker.com/2019/07/27/fmcsa-asking-for-feedback-from-
truckers-on-detention-time/