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HOS DEBATES * USA: Tired truckers?
* New York - Do pilots need more sleep than truckers? The fight over Federal rest rules
NY,USA -Bloomberg News, by Justin Bachman -June 06, 2014: -- The people who drive large commercial trucks, fly cargo planes, and ferry millions of airline passengers are all subject to federal rules governing how much they rest. The U.S. government insists all such rules are guided by the science of sleep. Yet when Uncle Sam moves to enhance transport safety, it becomes clear that the rest rules are very much influenced by whichever industry or worker group is most pinched by government requirements... Cargo pilots at FedEx and United Parcel Service, for example, are not subject to rest rules that took effect in January for passenger pilots—an exemption that pilots unions call the “cargo carve-out” ... The Independent Pilots Association, which represents 2,600 UPS pilots, has sued the Federal Aviation Administration over the matter. The IPA and other pilot groups are pressing Congress to impose the same rest standard for cargo aviators, a proposal opposed by UPS and FedEx... “This (rule) isn’t pulled out of nowhere, this is based on a lot of science,” says Sean Cassidy, safety coordinator for the largest U.S. pilots union, the Air Line Pilots Association, and a captain with Alaska Airlines (ALK). Passenger airlines have avoided that conflict, satisfied by the changes for which they lobbied when the rules were being drafted...
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