Hours Of Service * WORLDWIDE

* Brazil - Court injunction in, wins truckers a shorter working day

Cuiaba,Mato Grosso,Brazil -International Transport Workers' Federation 27 February 2008: -- A court in Brazil has ruled that companies should limit truckers’ working day to eight hours... The preliminary injunction, which was imposed by prosecutors in Cuiaba in Mato Grasso, applies to transport companies across Brazil. It responds to evidence that trucks are involved in 70 per cent of accidents on Mato Grosso highways; that some 51 per cent of truckers passing through Mato Grosso use or have used drugs to stay awake and that 46 per cent work more than 16 hours a day... The injunction outlines that tachographs, which record distances travelled by trucks and the speeds at which they are travelling, are to be used to monitor how long a driver is working. Where limits are exceeded, fines amounting to US$1000 will be imposed on the company employing the driver. The injunction also applies to owner-drivers...


* USA & Canada - Other Unions - What their doing...
USA -Trucking Boards, by Canadian, Seasoned Veteran -28 Feb 2008: -- A court in Brazil has ruled that companies should limit truckers’ working day to eight hours... ITF-road transport union: International Transport Workers' Federation: News online... Trucks all over the country are set to stop where they are at noon on Wednesday, as their drivers honour dead colleagues and protest substandard highways in Norway: See below: To stop where they are * Norway - truckers protests -