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Jun 18, 2014

TRUCKERS TROUBLES * USA

* North Dakota - Trucker troubles sharing the road 

Fargo,N.D.,USA -The Valley New Live -Jun 16, 2014: -- The Valley New Live, discovered what safety precautions local truckers take to make sure you're safe on the roads... Traveling over three million miles, trucker Craig McManus has made a lifetime career of driving big rigs. Safety is always a top concern... The ND Highway Patrol tells me truckers have to obey the 11-14 hour rule. A driver can only be behind the wheel for 11 consecutive hours in a 14 hour window. Then, that truck's got to be parked. And, for every eight hours hitting the tar, a 30 minute break is required...
* New York - Truckers resist rules on sleep, despite risks of drowsy driving
(Photo credit Oklahoma Highway Patrol: The scene of a June 2009 accident near Miami, Okla., in which 10 people died. Investigators said the 76-year-old driver of the semi, which plowed into stopped and slowed traffic, had probably fallen asleep) 
NY,USA -The New York Times, by JAD MOUAWAD and ELIZABETH A. HARRIS -June 16, 2014: -- The tractor-trailer set off at 2:30 a.m. from Springfield, Mo., the usual time and place. Nearly 11 hours later, along the Will Rogers Turnpike in Oklahoma, fatigue caught up... At mile marker 321.5, near the town of Miami, the semi plowed into a line of cars stopped on the highway. Ten people were killed. The 76-year-old truck driver, who survived, had probably fallen asleep, federal investigators later concluded... What is remarkable about these events, which took place five years ago this month, is how common such accidents are. For decades, federal authorities have tried to ensure that truck drivers get adequate rest. But in a business that lives by the clock, miles mean money. Commercial truck operators have resisted, arguing, in effect, that Washington cannot regulate sleep... But now sleep-deprived driving — an open secret among truckers — has once again come to the fore, after the June 7 accident involving the comedian Tracy Morgan on a dark stretch of the New Jersey Turnpike 45 miles south of New York City. Prosecutors say the Walmart truck driver whose tractor-trailer slammed into a van carrying Mr. Morgan, critically injuring him and killing another passenger, had not slept in more than 24 hours... Still, truckers work under enormous pressure. Independent drivers are paid by the mile and therefore have big incentives to drive as much as possible...

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