On the occasion of ETF’s 6th Congress in Budapest, the Road Section presented an Emergency Motion on driving and rest time rules for the bus and coach sector. The motion was unanimously adopted and sets the course of ETF’s campaign aimed at stopping any attempt by policymakers to relax the existing driving and rest time regime in road passenger transport. Picture this: bus and coach passenger transport drivers driving 12 days without a single day off, with no more than 5 to 6 hours of rest per day, and this is only if they’re so lucky. Inhumane? Yes. And yet, this is precisely the European Commission’s intention. (....)