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ROADS SAFETY * USA: Truckers' rest areas
* Minnesota - U pilot project helps truckers combat drowsy driving
Maple Grove,MINN,USA -The Star Tribune, by TIM HARLOW -September 22, 2014: -- In its 2006 Large Truck Crash Causation Study, the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration found fatigue to be a leading factor in truck crashes... Federal regulations limit truckers to a maximum 70-hour workweek, down from 82 hours since tighter rules went into effect in July 2013. The rules, enacted to combat drowsy driving, require truckers who reach their weekly limit to rest for 34 consecutive hours before starting another 70-hour work period. Truckers also are limited to a 14-hour workday and no more than 11 hours of driving in a single day... Kind of like motel vacancy signs, new signs near three rest areas along eastbound Interstate 94 now tell truck drivers how many parking spaces are available... The signs are part of a pilot project led by the Minnesota Department of Transportation and the University of Minnesota designed to give truckers real-time information about where they can find a safe place to pull off the road when they have reached their driving limit... Rest areas testing the system are the Big Spunk Rest Area near Albany, Enfield near Monticello and Elm Creek in Maple Grove... Cameras scan the lot to determine how many truck spots are open. The information is sent to a computer, which relays it to electronic signs, the MnDOT website and directly to truckers whose cabs are wired to receive it... The system has worked at 95 percent accuracy since it went live in April, said Truck Availability Parking System (TAPS) project manager John Tompkins...
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