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Mar 10, 2007

Study * USA - Drivers need flexibility within work, rest rules

USA -eTrucker -9 Mar 2007: -- Commercial truck drivers need greater flexibility within federal driver work and rest rules to allow them to select sleep times and duration based on individual need, according to a study released Tuesday, March 6, by the American Trucking Associations and sleep research firm Circadian International... Through a first-of-its-kind research project, ATA and Circadian evaluated whether features of the current hours-of-service rules are meeting their intended purpose of improving sleep, driver alertness and safety. One such provision is the sleeper-berth rule, which requires drivers to split sleeper-berth rest segments into two periods, one of which must be eight hours...

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