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DRIVERS' Hours Of Service
* Canada - CTA offers new HoS reference book
TORONTO, Ont.,CAN -Truck News, by Adam Ledlow -30 Oct 2006: -- The Canadian Trucking Alliance has prepared an Hours of Service reference book to assist drivers, trainers and managers understand the new Canadian rules, which come into affect Jan. 1... The book incorporates the interpretation guidelines that will be used by enforcement officers, and also includes explanations of the US rules and tips for fatigue management together with the detailed regulations for both Canada and t
* Australia - Discrimination: One rule for govt, another for drivers...
Australia -ATN -27 Oct 2006: -- The reaction of state governments to doctors complaining of long working hours is in total contrast to their policy for truck drivers... The Australian Medical Association has raised the issue of doctor working hours, showing doctors working up to 20 hours straight, and 50 hours across three days... It has asked government owned and operated hospitals to cut back hours for doctors to reduce fatigue. Many of the extra hours worked by doctors are unpaid. Doctors also complain that regardless of the extra hours worked on one shift (a 12 hour shift that runs to 19 or 20 hours, they are still expected to turn up for the next shift, even if it is just 3 to 5 hours later). Doctors are also expected to sleep at hospitals without rest facilities to stay 'on call' although they are out of hours. Doctors also complained of working excessive night hours... As an example, the longest hours recorded in the AMA survey was a Tasmanian doctor who worked 113 hours in a week while a quarter of doctors worked more than 80 hours a week with most not having a full day off in the week. One doctor reported working 34 hours straight - in intensive care surgery! The average doctor in NSW hospitals worked 70 hours a week plus one weekend in six... When the same situation applies to truck drivers, albeit at lesser hours than worked by doctors, the governments have reacted by applying a 12 hour limit per 24 in working hours - and huge fines on drivers and employers for working one minute over legal times... Is it a fact that government feel free to legislate impractical working arrangemnents where a private sector employers (in trucking) have to pay, but are unwilling to change even worse or more dangerous working hours where government has to pay?... Is a shortage of skilled workers a good enough excuse for not introducing reasonable working and rest hours? If so, why doesn't it apply to the private sector like the government employers?...
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