unconstitutional truck driver issues

Amendment VII: "Excessive bail shall not be requiered, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted".
Although truck drivers are demanded as proffesionals, are treated as unskilled labourers. Assuming an anual income of $40,000, since it would represent for a OTR driver a 24/7 availability, and an effective on duty dedication of about 14/7, the $40,000 figure becomes deceptive at the time of evaluating the excessiviness of the fines truck drivers are subjected aginst. A fine of only $500 can actually represent between half to a whole week's income of a OTR driver. Another employee working on 40 Hrs./weeek basis, with all the sick-call benifits and others, making the same $40,000/year, to overcome an $500 fine could just do some overtime, or take a few hrs. second job. In the case of the OTR truck driver, the mented fine would end up being paid also by inocent people, his or her dependents.

Amendment XIV: Section I:"....No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States;........;nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws".
Whimsical split speed limits, in the one hand, and the exclusion of truck drivers from the benefits of Labour Act, in the other; are appropiate examples of unconstitutionality. Are them not? All the hopelessness, abuse and mistreatments that regularly occure in the industry with the highest turover rates, yet making record profits is one of the well seen consequences of this unconstitutionality. The other, not so easily seen would be unsafity. No HOS with or without recording devices, will ever repair this unconstitutionality.

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