It also wants Transport Canada to explain why it is proposing to allow 84 to 96 hours per week in Canada while the current and proposed limit in the U.S. is 60. Canada already allows the longest driving shift in the regulated world. Scientists say that fatigue is a factor in up to 40 per cent of fatal big rig crashes.
Truck drivers are already underpaid and overworked in the trucking sweatshop industry.
They need more pay, not more work.