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USA's HOS DEBATE * Canada - US HOS? No thanks, drivers say in survey
Toronto,Can -Today's Trucking, by Jim Park -11 Dec 2006: -- The Hours of Service rules are supposed to be about safety, right? Seems odd then, that a large majority of the drivers who responded to an exclusive HOS survey Today's Trucking and highwaySTAR conducted over the past few months said they didn't feel safety had been enhanced by the new, more restrictive rules that went into effect in 2004 south of the border... When asked if the American HOS regulations made trucking safer, only 18 of the 123 respondents agreed (90 disagreed, 14 had no opinion)... Not only did they believe the rules don't make for safer, less fatigued drivers, many truckers told us that they're often put in a position where they have to run when they'd rather be resting. In addition, they said the rules have changed eating habits for the worse (57 percent, versus 10 percent who said they had improved. One-third of respondents said their eating habits had not changed)... Opinions also suggest the new rules have done little to improve driver health and well being -- which one may recall was one of the arguments used by the Circuit Court of Appeals in Washington back in July 2004 to throw out an earlier, and many would argue, better, HOS rule...
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