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Federal mandated breaks for truckers and enforcement
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Council Member Brooks-Powers inquires about the federal mandated breaks for truckers and their enforcement. Deputy Commissioner Beaton explains the requirements and recent changes in monitoring.
- Federal regulations mandate rest periods for truckers after a certain amount of time
- Recent changes involve active monitoring devices in trucks, leading to stricter enforcement
- Truckers must rest after fourteen hours of service
- Enforcement is a combination of federal oversight and NYPD enforcement of parking regulations
Selvena N. Brooks-Powers
0:41:57
In terms of the overnight truck parking pilot that you all launched, Could you briefly describe the federal mandated brakes truckers are required to take and how are these requirements enforced?
Eric Beaton
0:42:14
So the the the federal requirements and I'm trying to see if I have the details in front of me.
0:42:20
But it mandates rest periods after a certain amount of time.
0:42:24
And what really changed wasn't the change in federal requirements, but it was the monitoring that the trucks now have to have devices that actively monitor these things.
0:42:33
So a truck might previously have flouted those limits a little bit, they're now the federal enforcement is much stronger.
0:42:43
And so we do see trucks behaving better, which is obviously what we want in some respects.
0:42:48
But it does result in an increase in the problem of these trucks parking on city streets when they've reached their time of service limits.
0:42:57
That in turn is enforced by NYPD.
0:43:01
So they have to rest after fourteen hours.
0:43:03
Thank you.
0:43:04
So it's a combination of federal enforcement of the rest requirements and NYPD enforcement of where they can or cannot be on city streets.