Proposed new rules• Limit “on-duty” time to 13 hours, from 14 hours per day• Limit maximum driving within the 13-hour driving window to 10 hours, from 11 hours• Limit consecutive driving hours to seven• Must rest for two consecutive nights once per week to “restart” 70-hour work clockSource: Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration
Daphne Izer, founder of Parents Against Tired Truckers, lost her son in 1993.
It was his 17th birthday.
Jeff Izer and his four friends had pulled over to the side of the road on the way to a haunted hayride. They didn’t know it, but the driver of an 80,000-pound tractor-trailer just behind them had fallen asleep at the wheel. He plowed into the stopped car, killing Jeff and three of his friends, she said.
A fourth survived with serious physical and mental injuries.