Question: Refer to the Front Page article and answer the question below. FRONT PAGE Sleep Rules Raise Trucking Costs The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (
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Sleep Rules Raise Trucking Costs
The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration FMCSA now monitors the sleep hours and practices of longhaul truck drivers. As of July the FMCSA insists that drivers:
Drive no more than hours a day.
Work no more than hours a day
Work no more than hours a week
Take a minute break in their first hours of driving
Rest for consecutive hours after completing a hour week, including at least two nights between the hours of and
According to FMCSA, the new sleep rules will reduce chronic fatigue and related crashes, saving lives per year. But the trucking industry says the new rules are too costly and even dangerous. They force drivers to sleep when they're not tired and to drive when they are tired. They also force trucks onto the road at commute times. The $ billion industry says shipping costs will rise to percent, upward of $ billion.
Source: Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration and news reports of July
How much will annual shipping costs increase for each saved life?
Instructions: Round your response to the nearest whole number.
$
million
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