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Hours of Service Regulations

A team of researchers associated with the Trucking Industry Program and the University of Michigan's Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations studied the relationship between the costs and benefits of truck driver hours-of-service regulations. While this research could not definitively determine whether the benefits of the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration's proposed HOS outweighed the costs, we present two components of this research as a contribution to the discussion.

The first paper was published in Transportation Journal, Summer 2002. The second paper remains a working paper and contains the full draft report.

The Case for Stengthened Motor Carrier Hours of Service Regulations (PDF 1706kb)

Proposed Changes in Motor Carrier Hours of Service Regulations: An Assessment (PDF 2324kb)

Report to Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration on the relationship between truck driver compensation and highway safety, September 2002

Paying for Safety: Executive Summary (PDF 224kb)

Paying for Safety: An Economic Analysis of the Effect of Compensation on Truck Driver Safety (PDF 2037kb)

Are truck drivers working too many hours? You be the judge.

"Let it be Palletized: A Portrait of Truck Drivers' Work and Life," Dale Belman, Kristen Monaco and Taggert J. Brooks, December 1998 (PDF 1830kb)

Thomas Hubbard-American Trucking Association's Critique of University of Michigan Trucking Industry Program Driver Survey Data

Reply to Thomas Hubbard-American Trucking Association's Critique of University of Michigan Trucking Industry Program Driver Survey Data (PDF 19kb)

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