📋 Tender Overview
The Infrastructure Commission (CI) approved, on Tuesday (18), the holding of a public hearing to discuss the viability of some points of the, known as the Trucker Law. The hearing complies with the request () made by Senator Esperidiao Amin (PP-SC), which questions the precariousness of the resting and resting points on the countrys highways. The senator stated that the law established for truckers, in the name of safety, working hours with stops at rest points for drivers, with pauses of 30 minutes every 6 hours of work.
However, a decision of the Supreme Federal Court (STF), in 2023, defined that truckers must comply with every 24 hours of work an full rest of 11 hours, which is impractical, in the assessment of Esperidiao Amin. Drivers stop and rest points were not built, there is an absolute controversy between the legal and the real. In my state, for example, there is only one stopping point on a federal highway, built less than a year ago. The Supremes decision is correct, as well as the aspiration of the professionals for rest, but the reality we have is another, he pondered.
President of CI, Senator Marcos Rogerio (PL-RO) agreed with Esperidiao Amin. He recalled that the lack of rest points on Brazilian roads is a national problem and said he has already dealt with the matter with regulatory and inspection agencies, such as the National Land Transportation Agency (ANTT) and the National Traffic Secretariat (Senatran). - In the negotiations I made with ANTT, of the Trucker Law Regulation, the regulatory body itself states that, in order to comply with the law, it was necessary that the entire infrastructure be offered. What happens today is that fines are applied to these drivers, without the structure for rest and rest is offered - argued.
