Restricting hours?

Cunobelin

In another thread, driver fatigue was discussed.

After a coach trip at the weekend, I was chatting to the driver.

Professional drivers are restricted to the hours that they drive.

It would be illegal for a driver in his position to drive for several hours, work, and then drive for an extended number of hours. Yet some reps and others do exactly this.

Would there be a place for restricting the time spent driving in the same way as for professionals?




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eternal_headwind

I read a report once that indicated the risk of a british rep dying in a road accident, which the report considered an industrial accident, was higher than the risk of a very low income miner in south america dying in an industrial accident.

So yes, this is a very real problem.

Most sales reps log their business mileage for tax reasons (it is a company car tax benefit thing) so on a company car you could always install a tacometer.

I actually like this idea because it would also force fuel efficiency and have positive carbon footprint issues.

Anonymous

it's the same as a person working a 10 hour day coming home hooking up the caravan to the car and heading to the south of France

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Tourist Tony

Why bother? Just allow them to accelerate out og their fatigue!

Indeed, there's a way to cut coach deaths.....

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