The United Kingdom is dealing with the same squeeze on the driver supply as in the U.S., and its main regulatory agency has just eased its hours-of-service rules for a month to cope.
The reaction? The country’s major trucking trade group is not happy with the move.
The U.K. had continued to use European Union rules on hours of service even post-Brexit. The Department for Transport, in its announcement of the eased rules for the U.K., referred to them as the “retained EU drivers’ hours rules.”
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