[Xss3]

If youre doing 56mph, as you would be in the EU, then you can drive for 4.5hrs and cover 250miles before your first mandated break.

So it almost seems optimised for the mandated break timing.

On average truck journeys in europe are only 72 miles anyway so...

[macintux]

> On average truck journeys in europe are only 72 miles anyway so...

That’s astonishing. I’d be curious to see the median and mode distances compared between the U.S. and E.U.

[Symbiote]

Many journeys will be from the distribution center to the supermarket or similar, or even multiple supermarkets, which would really bring down the average.