Rotina do pé na tábua : quais os impactos da jornada de trabalho na vida dos caminhoneiros podem ser percebidos a partir das narrativas nos processos trabalhistas?

Abstract

The present work aims to reflect what the impacts of the workday are being borne by truck drivers in Brazil, from the workers' narrative in the labor lawsuits. In addition, it seeks to verify whether truck drivers are exposed to the practice of exhaustive hours and how the mechanisms of legal protection for these workers work. For this, the methodology used is the analysis of twenty-five minutes of hearings taken from labor proceedings that were judged during the year of 2019 in the Regional Labor Courts (TRT's) of the 1st, 2nd, 4th, 6th, 10th, 13th, 14th , 15th, 18th, 19th, 20th, 21st, 24th Region. The result of the survey revealed that truck drivers are exposed to an exhausting journey with a common duration of 17 to 19 hours followed by intense and exhausting work, with few rest intervals, precarious eating conditions, inadequate sleeping conditions, social and family isolation. In addition, in the current legal provision of the category, which is Law 13.103 / 2015, they do not protect truck drivers from an exhaustive workday, since the working hours limit established by the law, already quite elastic in the amount of 12 hours of work per day , it can be made more flexible by the employer without just reason and, also, it does not consider such waiting time as work time, which, as our research has shown, can last up to more than eight hours.