Retail Chains - margin of profit first, margin of safety last

Retail Groups Challenge Trucking Rule | Laws & Regulations content from Supermarket News: "Peter J. Larkin, NGA president and chief executive officer, said NGA is supporting an amici curiae brief filed in support of the American Trucking Association's legal challenge to the rule, explaining, "The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration clearly failed to take into account critical information such as costs on the entire supply chain that NGA and others provided in public comments."

The rule, set to take effect next July, reduces by 12 hours the maximum number of hours a truck driver can work within a week. Under the old rule, truck drivers could work on average up to 82 hours within a seven-day period. The new hours-of-service final rule limits a driver's work week to 70 hours.

In addition, truck drivers cannot drive after working eight hours without first taking a break of at least 30 minutes. The final rule retains the current 11-hour daily driving limit.

The rule also requires truck drivers who maximize their weekly work hours to take at least two nights' rest from 1 a.m. to 5 a.m. as part of the rule's "34-hour restart" provision that allows drivers to restart the clock on their work week by taking at least 34 consecutive hours off-duty."

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