Mailing from coast-to-coast sounds like it would take a long time, but there are regular flights cross-country, and the sorting facilities bring mail to the middle of the coast, and then ship it straight across, east or west, depending. This means that the mail has to go first to a central sorting facility.
Truck and bus drivers must generally take a minimum of eight hours off between shifts, and their shift hours are often capped. Airline pilots are required to have 10 hours off between shifts to allow for transportation and rest time.
Many of the state laws we covered say nurses canât be required to work beyond âpredetermined,â regularly-scheduled shifts. Some states set a limit to how long those shifts can be, usually 12 hours, but others left it to hospitals and nurses to work out the actual length of a shift.