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I checked the article and it didn't say anything about sleep deprivation. It simply said that the cause was under investigation.Originally Posted by street_sweeper
There's a certain double standard:
When you're working for the government you're literally above the law. I was driving up until a few years ago. It was common to pull sixteen hour work shifts. The longest i ever ran was 22 hours but i was the B team. The A team guys were running as much as 35 hours straight and pulling over 100 hours a week.
I never had a physical.
I was never subjected to random drug testing over a fifteen year period.
We never kept log books.
Never saw a weigh scale. Weight limits were not a consideration as long as you didn't break the springs on the truck.
Law enforcement never pulled us over.
Technically .... we weren't even required to have a class license, however most of the guys had a class A and had logged in excess of a million miles over the road working for private industry.
I'm not saying that this is right but our safety record was pretty good despite all of the craziness.
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