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Trucking rules * Canada - Tackle a serious issue
New hours of service rules introduced to tackle the issue of driver fatigue
Vancover,BC,Canada -The Vancover Sun, by Jim Mickey -June 07, 2007: -- The Jan. 1, 2007, amendment to the number of hours that professional truck drivers can legally work has, without a doubt, forced our industry to make significant adjustments... The changes Ottawa introduced reduce the number of hours that truckers can work in a 24-hour period to 14 hours from 15. Truckers are paid by the mile, so these new rules, with their reduced window of driving time, will mean fewer miles, and therefore, lower income... What is forgotten amid the carping over these new hours of service rules is that they were introduced to tackle the serious and sometimes deadly issue of driver fatigue... The amendments require drivers to take better, continuous breaks between their on-duty shifts -- a total of 10 hours every 24 hours. Previously, continuous blocks of rest time were not mandated...
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