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  2. Transportation safety in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Hours of service regulations are issued by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) and govern the working hours of anyone operating a commercial motor vehicle (CMV) in the United States. The relationship between number of hours driven and the percent of commercial truck crashes related to driver fatigue is an exponential ...

  3. Transportation policy of the United States - Wikipedia

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    Federal transportation policy is codified under Title 49 of the United States Code and Title 49 of the Code of Federal Regulations . The need for federal transportation policy arose as the United States spread westward in the 19th century. The National Road was funded by the federal government in 1806 to connect the East Coast and the Midwest.

  4. India - Wikipedia

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    India also contains four of the world's 34 biodiversity hotspots, or regions that display significant habitat loss in the presence of high endemism. [n] [202] According to official statistics, India's forest cover is 713,789 km 2 (275,595 sq mi), which is 21.71% of the country's total land area. [70]

  5. United Kingdom agency worker law - Wikipedia

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    United Kingdom agency worker law refers to the law which regulates people's work through employment agencies in the United Kingdom. Though statistics are disputed, there are currently between half a million and one and a half million agency workers in the UK, and probably over 17,000 agencies. As a result of judge made law [1] and absence of ...

  6. Single European Railway Directive 2012 - Wikipedia

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    The Single European Railway Directive 2012 ( 2012/34/EU) is an EU Directive that regulates railway networks in European Union law. This recast the First Railway Directive" and consolidates legislation from each of the first to the fourth "Package" from 1991 to 2016, [1] and allows open access operations on railway lines by companies other than ...

  7. Workers' compensation (United States) - Wikipedia

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    Workers' compensation (which formerly was known as workmen's compensation until the name was changed to make it gender neutral) in the United States is a primarily state-based [1] system of workers' compensation . In the United States, some form of workers compensation is typically compulsory for almost all employers in most states (depending ...

  8. New Hampshire Department of Transportation - Wikipedia

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    Functions. NHDOT's general functions, as provided in NH RSA:21-L, are: . Planning, developing, and maintaining a state transportation network which will provide for safe and convenient movement of people and goods throughout the state by means of a system of highways and railroads, air service, mass transit and other practicable modes of transportation in order to support state growth and ...

  9. Labor policy in Italy - Wikipedia

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    Italy does not have a nationally unified labor code.Labor legislation is wide-ranging, with laws, regulations and statutes that bear on labor relations. The Constitution of Italy (articles 35–47) contains declarations of principle relating to fair payment, maximum working hours, vacation, protection of women and minors, social insurance, illness, disability, industrial diseases and accidents ...