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Trucking Industry Deregulation
and Trucker Fatigue in Spotlight Again
By Jennifer
Anderson
"Federal rules designed to keep long-haul truck drivers in the
United States awake and alert at the wheel, which were relaxed by an
administration committed to deregulation, returned to the spotlight
again on December 2 in an article published in the New York Times.
In the debate before the changes were made, ideological arguments
drowned out warnings about the risks.
The warnings are well supported. Ergonomics research shows that
fatigue increases the risk of accidents and decreases efficiency and
productivity. The Times article was the first in a series about the
impact of President George W. Bush’s deregulation strategy, which
has repealed enforcement or completion of hundreds of federal
rules."
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