The 960-hour cap is breaking “next-morning delivery”
In a world of 59 criminal referrals and an 81.6% violation rate, can printers turn delivery terms from “effort” into “contracts and products”?
More days are ending the same way: the truck shows up, and nothing gets unloaded. Miss your slot in a reserved loading bay and you may have to re-queue. And waiting over 30 minutes can now become something that must be logged. Carriers can no longer “soak it up with overtime.” The cap on overtime for motor vehicle drivers is 960 hours per year. Regulators inspected 4,328 workplaces and found violations at 81.6% of them. And 59 cases were referred for prosecution as serious or malicious.
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When delivery slips, a printing company loses the “last step it could still control.” That last step is the escape hatch: load the finished job and get it there by the next morning.
“Last” here doesn’t mean the last unit off the press. It’s the end of a chain: sales replies, “We can print it tonight,” production squeezes in the changeover, finishing throws extra hands at inserting even if it runs late, and finally a truck still comes to pick it up. When transport clogs,…
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