Re:Lyft Is Said to Seek a Buyer, Without Success
by remarkEon on Friday August 19, 2016 @05:58PM
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> If you think about it, taxi cab drivers barely need any qualifications to drive a cab. Truckers need more...
Well, part of those rules and regulations do things like specifically limit how much they can drive per day (11 hours is the limit, I believe). There's also super high turn over in the trucking industry and they've had driver shortages fairly regularly. A lot of these rules are about protecting the human driver from themselves (fatigue, misbehavior etc). When I think about the problem it seems that regular, predictable freight movement from port to warehouse would be a logical place to start because a) it's easier and b) the labor market for drivers is so severely distorted right now.
Edit: It's 11 hours but I'm remembering there's other restrictions too, like limits on consecutive blocks of 11-hour driving without rest. I'll look it up later.
Well, part of those rules and regulations do things like specifically limit how much they can drive per day (11 hours is the limit, I believe). There's also super high turn over in the trucking industry and they've had driver shortages fairly regularly. A lot of these rules are about protecting the human driver from themselves (fatigue, misbehavior etc). When I think about the problem it seems that regular, predictable freight movement from port to warehouse would be a logical place to start because a) it's easier and b) the labor market for drivers is so severely distorted right now.
Edit: It's 11 hours but I'm remembering there's other restrictions too, like limits on consecutive blocks of 11-hour driving without rest. I'll look it up later.