Maine Woman Lobbies for Full Monitoring of Driving Time
Portland Press Herald › March 13, 2007
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A Maine woman is lobbying the federal government to require the installation of recording devices on all cargo trucks in an effort to fight driver fatigue, which she said killed her son in 1993.
The Transportation Department issued a proposal this year requiring data boxes on 465 trucks to monitor the number of hours driven, but the founder of Parents Against Tired Truckers, Daphne Izer of Lisbon, Maine, contends that devices should be installed on all 700,000 trucks on the road.See the full content of this document
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Maine Woman Lobbies for Full Monitoring of Driving Time
"No load of freight is worth a human life," Izer said during a news conference Monday. "We want them on every single truck."
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