>>>>First of all, I'm a lot less interested in protecting me from myself, so I have no interest at all in mandating pointless inanity. If somebody wants to become fodder for the Darwin awards, that's their business. And there are areas (more sleep etc.) that are unenforceable so that it would be silly to legislate them.
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>>>But they are - for truck drivers we had (and probably still have) a limit of 8 hours driving before taking at least four hours off. Enforced by a gadget on the tachometer
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>>FYI "tachograph"
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>Yep - that's the name of the gadget. You got that in the UK too?
Yeah. Since the EC (now EU) they became mandatory many years ago. My cousin's husband was a lorry driver and before they became law, he showed me the one in his cab. It was like a thick black circle of ink where the same one had been in for years, written over and over. He wasn't happy about their becoming mandatory.
- Whoever said that women are the weaker sex never tried to wrest the bedclothes off one in the middle of the night
- Worry is the interest you pay, in advance, for a loan that you may never need to take out.
