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Trucking rules tackle a serious issue

Trucking rules tackle a serious issue

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6/7/07

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The Jan. 1, 2007, amendment to the number of hours that professional truck drivers can legally work has, without a doubt, forced our industry to make significant adjustments.
The changes Ottawa introduced reduce the number of hours that truckers can work in a 24-hour period to 14 hours from 15. Truckers are paid by the mile, so these new rules, with their reduced window of driving time, will mean fewer miles, and therefore, lower income.
What is forgotten amid the carping over these new hours of service rules is that they were introduced to tackle the serious and sometimes deadly issue of driver fatigue.

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