Why doesn’t the NT follow the national driving hours regulations?
The Northern Territory has unique driving conditions with long straight roads, greater distances to cover, low traffic volumes, and climatic extremes. It is not practical to require a driver to stop in the middle of a spinifex plain in 40 ° + heat because she or he has reached their prescribed driving hours limit. The regulations do not take into account important issues in the management of fatigue, for example, driver health and lifestyle, quality and time of rest (body clock), and vehicle accommodation.
