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B4 THE ASTORIAN • TUESDAY, JULY 2, 2019 Drive-time rules for truckers to be eased permit truckers to drive up to 11 hours each day, are already “exceedingly liberal in our estimation.” There were 4,657 large trucks involved in fatal crashes in 2017, a 10% increase from the year before, according to a May report issued by the Fed- eral Motor Carrier Safety Administration, an agency of the Transportation Department. Sixty of the truckers in these accidents were identifi ed as “asleep or fatigued,” although the National Transportation Safety Board has said this type of driver impairment is likely underreported on police crash forms. The NTSB has declared fatigue a “pervasive prob- lem” in all forms of trans- portation and added reducing fatigue-related accidents to its 2019- 2020 “most wanted list” of safety improvements. A groundbreaking study by the Transportation Depart- ment more than a decade ago reported 13% of truck drivers involved in crashes that resulted in fatalities or injuries were fatigued at the time of the accidents. The trucking indus- try has developed a strong relationship with Presi- dent Donald Trump, who has made rolling back lay- ers of regulatory over- sight a top priority. At least a dozen transportation safety rules under devel- opment or already adopted were repealed, withdrawn, delayed or put on the back burner during Trump’s fi rst year in offi ce. “First of all, this admin- istration is not as aggres- sive as the prior,” said Bill Sullivan, the top lobby- ist for the powerful Ameri- can Trucking Associations, whose members include the nation’s largest motor carri- ers and truck manufacturing companies. “Most impor- tantly, the partnership with them has not been as sus- picious of industry as in the past.” By RICHARD LARDNER Associated Press OPAL, Va. — Truck driver Lucson Francois was forced to hit the brakes just fi ve minutes from his home in Pennsylvania. He’d reached the max- imum number of hours in a day he’s allowed to be on duty. Francois couldn’t leave the truck unattended. So he parked and climbed into the sleeper berth in the back of the cab. Ten hours would have to pass before he could start driving again. “You don’t want even a one-minute violation,” said Francois, a 39-year-old Hai- tian immigrant, recalling his dilemma during a break at a truck stop in this small crossroads town southwest of Washington. The Transportation Department is moving to relax the federal regula- tions that required Francois to pull over, a long sought goal of the trucking indus- try and a move that would highlight its infl uence with the Trump administration. Interest groups that rep- resent motor carriers and truck drivers have lobbied for revisions they say would make the rigid “hours of service” rules more fl exible. But highway safety advocates are warning the contemplated changes would dangerously weaken the regulations, resulting in truckers putting in even lon- ger days at a time when they say driver fatigue is such a serious problem. They point to new government data that shows fatal crashes involving trucks weighing as much as 80,000 pounds have increased. “I think fl exibility is a code word for deregula- tion,” said Cathy Chase, president of Advocates for Highway and Auto Safety, an alliance of insurance companies and consumer, public health and safety groups. She said the hours of service requirements, which Japan resumes commercial whaling despite low demand By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO — Japanese whalers returned to port Monday with their fi rst catch after resuming com- mercial whaling for the fi rst time in 31 years, achieving the long-cherished goal of traditionalists that is seen as largely a lost cause amid slowing demand for the meat and changing views on conservation. A fl eet of fi ve boats left the northern Japanese port of Kushiro earlier Monday and brought back two minke whales. A crane lifted them and slowly placed them on the back of a truck to be taken to a portside factory for processing. Workers in blue plastic overalls poured sake from paper cups onto the fi rst whale to express thanks and celebrate the fi rst catch. It was the fi rst commer- cial hunt since 1988, when Japan switched to what it called research whaling after commercial whaling was banned by the Interna- tional Whaling Commis- sion. Japan gave six months’ notice that it was withdraw- ing from the IWC, a move that took effect Sunday. The Fisheries Agency said the hunts will stay within the country’s exclu- sive economic zone, and the catch quota for the rest of this year will be 227 whales, fewer than the 637 that Japan hunted in the Antarctic and the northwestern Pacifi c in its research program in recent years. The announce- ment of the quota, originally planned for late June, was delayed until Monday in an apparent move to avoid crit- icism during this past week- end’s Group of 20 summit in Osaka. As the boats left port, whalers, their families and local offi cials in two major whaling towns, Shimono- seki in southwestern Japan AP Photo/Masanori Takei A whale is unloaded at a port in Kushiro, in the northernmost main island of Hokkaido. and Kushiro in the north, celebrated the fresh start, hoping for their safe return and a good catch. Shi- monoseki is Prime Minis- ter Shinzo Abe’s electoral constituency. “We hope commercial whaling will be on track as soon as possible, contribute to local prosperity and carry on Japan’s rich whale cul- ture to the next generation,” Deputy Chief Cabinet Sec- retary Yasutoshi Nishimura told reporters in Tokyo. Offi cials said the catch of the two minke whales was a nice surprise because they were not thought to be in the area and whalers were expecting Monday’s trip to be only ceremonial. Fisheries Agency offi - cials said the whale meat will be auctioned at a local fi sh market Thursday and later hit stores, mainly in the region but possibly in Tokyo. Whalers are hoping for a special price for the historic meat that is higher than the average 2,000 yen per kilo- gram ($18 per 2.2 pounds) that their counterparts from Antarctic research whaling used to get. While the resumption of commercial whaling was condemned by many con- servation groups, others see it as a face-saving way to let the government’s embattled and expensive whaling pro- gram gradually succumb to changing times and tastes. Despite massive atten- tion, tax money and politi- cal support from ruling party lawmakers, whaling in Japan involved only a few hundred people and accounted for less than 0.1% of the total meat consumption in fi scal 2017, according to govern- ment data. Whale meat was an affordable source of protein during the lean times after World War II, with annual consumption peaking at 223,000 tons in 1962. But whale was quickly replaced by other meats. The supply of whale meat fell to 6,000 tons in 1986, the year before the moratorium on commer- cial whaling imposed by the IWC banned the hunting of several whale species. Under its research whal- ing, which was criticized as a cover for commercial hunts because the meat was sold on the market, Japan caught as many as 1,200 whales a year. It drastically cut back its catch in recent years after international pro- tests escalated and whale meat consumption slumped at home. Today, about 4,000-5,000 tons are supplied in Japan annually, or 30-40 grams (1-1.4 ounces) of whale meat per person a year, Fish- eries Agency offi cials say. The research whal- ing program lost money for years — 1.6 billion yen ($15 million) in the last year alone. Japan will stick to a very strict catch quota and will continue conducting research, Hideki Moronuki, a Fisheries Agency offi cial and the chief negotiator at the IWC, said in a recent interview. He said Japan’s commercial whaling will never harm whale stocks. The commercial whal- ing will be carried out by two groups. The mother fac- tory ship Nisshin-maru and two support boats that used to go to the Antarctic will travel as far as Japan’s 200 nautical mile exclusive eco- nomic zone to catch minke, Bryde’s and sei whales. Five other smaller ships will stay closer to the coast but also hunt minkes, in addition to 168 Baird’s beaked and two other kinds of small whales they used to catch outside of IWC jurisdiction. 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