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(8/28/09 ) Consumer, Safety and Labor Groups File Brief to Overturn Bush Administration Midnight Rule on Truck Driver Hours of Service

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(3/9/09 ) Safety Advocates Ask Court to Overturn Bush ‘Midnight Regulation’

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(12/18/08 ) Groups Challenge Dangerous Rule That Dramatically Increases Working Hours for Professional Truck Drivers

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(11/18/08 ) Bush Administration’s Rule Forces Truckers to Drive to Point of Exhaustion, Puts Motorists at Risk

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(12/19/07 ) Bush Administration Trucking Rule Disregards Courts, Puts Lives At Risk, Public Citizen Tells Senate Subcommittee

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(12/18/07 ) Bush Administration’s Trucking Rule Risks Lives, Creates Trucker ‘Sweatshop,’ Public Citizen to Tell Senators

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(12/11/07 ) Federal Agency Misses the Point – Again; Rule Governing Trucker Hours Puts Drivers at Risk

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(10/1/07 ) Unhealthy Hours-of-Service Rules to Stay in Effect Just 90 Days; Court Ruling Supports Safety Groups

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(1/11/07 ) Agency Fails to Require Electronic Recorders in All Trucks, Doesn’t Protect People on Highways from Tired Truckers

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(2/27/06 ) Trucker Hours-of-Service Rule Creates Hazard, Allows Drivers on Road for Too Many Hours, Safety Groups and Teamsters Tell Court

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(10/17/05 ) Safety Groups Release List of Most Lethal States for Truck Crashes; Victims Urge Congress to Resist Industry Pressure to Weaken Hours of Service Rule

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(10/17/05 ) Victims’ Misery Underscores Need to Strengthen Truck Hours of Service Rule; Congress Should Not Pass Dangerous Rule Into Law

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(7/27/05 ) Administration Effort to Harm Truckers Is Deplorable

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(7/19/05 ) Groups Call for Investigation Into FMCSA Meeting With Trucking Industry Regarding Last-Minute Amendments to the Highway Bill

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(3/9/05 ) Wal-Mart’s Sweatshop-on-Wheels Amendment Withdrawn in House but Battle Not Over as Highway Bill Moves to Senate; Statement by Public Citizen President Joan Claybrook

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(3/8/05 ) “Wal-Mart Amendment” Would Increase Trucker Hours, Endanger Motorists

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(3/8/05 ) “Wal-Mart Amendment” Discounts Danger of Tired Truckers; Creates Sweatshops on Wheels with 16-Hour Workdays; Statement by Public Citizen President Joan Claybrook

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(9/13/04 ) Congress Should Respect D.C. Circuit Court Decision on Hours of Service, Consumer Groups Say

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(2/25/04 ) OMB Reliance on Cost-Benefit Analysis Threatens to Undermine Vital Public Protections

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(6/30/03 ) Safety Groups Sue Over New Rule Governing Truckers’ Hours
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