OREANDA-NEWS. September 23, 2011. The Ministry of Infrastructure of Ukraine has developed amendments to the Regulations on working time and rest time of drivers of wheeled vehicles. The relevant draft decree of the Ministry of infrastructure of Ukraine "On Amendments to the Transport Ministry order from 07.06.2010 №340" suggests to improve realization of the state supervision over the safety of road transport on long-distance bus routes.

According to the draft order the buses used for irregular and regular special passenger transportations, for regular passenger transportations on long-distance bus routes length over 50 km (instead of 500 km as it suggested earlier trucks with gross weight over 3.5 tons must be equipped with tachographs.

The introduction of tachographs is offered to be performed gradually: on the routes from 150 to 500 km - since June 1st, 2012, and since June 1st, 2013 - from 50 to 150 km.

The adoption of the proposed draft order will promote reduction of quantity of road accident and gravity of their consequences because of overfatigue of drivers at transportations in the regime of irregular, regular special and regular passenger traffics on the intercity bus routes.