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Rule Changes - Canada - Put pressure on trucking firms
Industry already facing challenges in finding driversCalgary,Alberta,Canada -Business Edge, by Monte Stewart -22 June 2006: -- Canada's truck drivers will spend less time on the road under new federal regulations to be adopted early next year... Trucking-industry groups say the reduction in working hours will improve safety, but force companies to change their operations at a time when companies are dealing with a nation-wide driver shortage, rising fuel costs and many other challenges that make it difficult to compete... Starting Jan. 1, truckers will haul goods for a maximum of 13 hours per day and spend one more hour in service to deal with repairs and other needs. Under the current rules, drivers haul goods for 13 hours and spend two extra hours in service... Drivers will work a maximum of 70 hours per week and must receive 36 consecutive hours of rest in each seven-day period... (Photo by Bayne Stanley, Business Edge - B.C. Trucking Association executive director Paul Landry says Western Canadian firms will bear the brunt of new rules)
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