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HOS - USA - New amends short-haul rule
Black boxes not included
WASHINGTON, DF,USA -Today's Trucking/Canada -Aug. 23, 2005: -- While Canadian carriers are still adjusting to the news that the US's new hours-of-service rules will no longer include a split-sleeper provision, some short-haul truckers south of the border are celebrating a different amendment... Operators and delivery drivers who work within a 150-mile radius of their starting point will no longer have to maintain logbooks. According to the new HOS regime published by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration last Friday, the change was prompted by safety data that shows short-haul drivers make up over half the commercial fleet yet are involved in less than 7 percent of the nation’s fatigue-related fatal truck crashes...
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