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HOS' DEBATE * USA - Truckers' Fatigue Is Deadly
So it was good news Tuesday when a federal appeals court in Washington, D.C., struck down a 2005 Bush administration rule that relaxed limits on the hours long-distance truckers could driveNew London,CT,USA -TheDay -27 July 2007: -- Each week about 100 people die in truck-related accidents in America. Anyone who travels Interstate 95 in Connecticut or other congested highways realizes the perils of driving side-by-side with tractor-trailers... The court determined there was no reasonable justification to increase the hours of service from 60 to 77 over seven consecutive days, and from 70 to 88 over eight days... In fact, the court found that the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, a division of the federal Department of Transportation, ignored its own data that showed the risk of fatigue-related accidents would substantially increase in the extra hours of service allowed by the new rules...
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