I'd take driving a truck and having to piss in a bottle over working in a steel mill or a coal mine 100 times out of 100.
Fortunately the work of drivers driving big lorries is more tightly regulated with the worker's wellbeing also taken into consideration so that there's a fixed time interval per day you are allowed to drive, after which you have to literally stop at the first parking spot at the side of the road, no matter what the boss screams in your phone from half-way across the continent.
Are they not required to comply with driving time trackers?
From https://ec.europa.eu/transport/modes/road/social_provisions/...:
"Daily driving period shall not exceed 9 hours, with an exemption of twice a week when it can be extended to 10 hours."
Unfortunately not for the smaller vans. In your link they mention:
> road haulage and passenger transport vehicles,
which "road haulage" I'm pretty sure means the regular big lorries we all think about. But when driving a Mercedes Sprinter [1] the same rules don't apply. You can actually drive that Sprinter with a regular driver's license, while for a regular lorry you need to take additional exams so that you can get into the "you can drive a lorry/big truck" category.
[1] https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a2/20...
But a lot of door-to-door delivery these days uses "independent contractors" who use their personal vehicles and fuel, and get paid e.g. £120 for 180 deliveries.
Nobody's enforcing digital tacho cards for people's personal vehicles.