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Drivers' Work - Canada - Alberta's HoS announcement sends shockwaves through industry
EDMONTON, Alta.,CAN -Truck News, by Adam Ledlow -15 Nov 2006: -- On Nov. 8, the Office of the Provincial Minister of Infrastructure & Transportation shocked the Alberta's trucking industry with the announcement that the province would not be adopting the new Federal Hours-of-Service which come into effect across the country in 2007... Even though there have been ongoing consultations provincially, nationally and internationally over a 15-year period, the announcement said that, “…more consultation (is) required before any changes to provincial Hours-of-Service rules for truckers.”... “It also forces the enforcement community to have to interpret and apply all of the complexities of two sets of legislation,” Mayne Root, executive director of the Alberta Motor Transport Association, continued. “This places the drivers, carriers and enforcement officers in a very difficult and confusing position in their attempts to insure compliance.”...
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