Article: EU Truck Drivers Demand Shorter Working Hours

Article: Groups Challenge Dangerous Rule That Dramatically Increases ...
Targeted News Service;  December 18, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... will lead to exhausted truck drivers who literally can fall ... health and safety of truck drivers, much less anyone ... clearly shows that truck drivers, like other workers ... from excessively long working hours. "Congress created ...

Article: Rule changes for working hours: of truck ...
Charleston Gazette;  January 3, 2004 ;     700+ words ...Starting Sunday, truck drivers will have to change their working and resting hours to comply ... holiday overload at tollbooths, but this week it is notifying truck drivers that, as of Sunday, their hours of service will change. Gordon ...

Article: Rule Changes on Working Hours for Truck ...
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News;  January 3, 2004 ;     615 words ... ... By Susan Williams, The Charleston Gazette, W.Va. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jan. 3--Starting Sunday, truck drivers will have to change their working and resting hours to comply with new federal regulations. The new regulations are designed ...

Article: Ring in the new regs.(working hours rule for ...
Food Logistics;  November 1, 2003 ;     700+ words ...The New Year is just around the corner, and with it comes the revised Hours of Service (HOS) rule. Come Jan. 4, the controversial rule rolls into effect--and could cost the industry millions of dollars. In a nutshell, the new HOS rule changes a driver's allowable "on-duty" time to 14 consecutive

Article: EU agrees on shorter hours for truck drivers
AP Worldstream;  December 7, 2005 ;     497 words ... ... 2005 Dateline: BRUSSELS, Belgium European truck drivers can look forward to shorter working hours and longer rest stops, thanks to a draft ... their current 74-hour work week. Also, truck drivers will have a mandatory weekend off every ...

Article: PROPOSED RULES PUT TRUCK DRIVERS AT RISK.(MAIN)
Albany Times Union (Albany, NY);  July 3, 2000 ;     519 words ... ... transported by truck. The impact of additional rest area overcrowding and shortage problems. Regulated working hours for truck drivers are necessary. But scientific studies have shown that hours of service be based on hours of rest, not hours ...

Article: EC to call time on long working hours; Change could ...
The News Letter (Belfast, Northern Ireland);  November 19, 1998 ;     645 words ... ... is studying proposed new restrictions on the working hours of truck drivers and hospital doctors amid warnings that the ... s a tolerance level for junior doctors or truck drivers which means that at the margin there is a willingness ...