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Not in the US[1] . And truckers here have been cooking their books since they were actual paper and pen.

[1] https://www.usatoday.com/pages/interactives/news/rigged-forc...

I had a CDL-A a long time ago, that was the rule then. Big shops made sure you stuck to it (or so they said) but I also did here that they will indirectly force drivers to drive a lot more than that. When you hear about truckers making six figures, that isn't from 8hr days for sure. They even gave you a tip during training: if you open your truck's door, you're losing money. What happens when they force you is you don't get the trips you want or that are lucrative if you have a reputation of doing bare minimum.

I got you, I have tons of family who are truckers and the stories abound of shady company tactics. When GPS first started being used in trucks they would take a bucket or something and cover it, it simply 'lost service'.

None of this is new but it's definitely getting markedly worse.

Even still, I'd never heard of some of the evil things they are doing these days like closing the yard gates so they have to keep rolling.

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