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This nonsense about safety being a choice is the biggest load of cr@p I've ever heard, especially in trucking.
In many companies, there is an implicit expectation that certain rules and laws will be broken as a condition of employment. Don't like it? Go work someplace else.
"Don't like doing a 13-hour run in 11 logbook hours? I don't know what your problem is, driver! Log it legal!"

The trucking industry has proven itself to be unable to self-regulate.
The result is more and more rules and regulations.
New drivers are conditioned to this culture of lies from the beginning and everybody learns what to talk about and what goes without saying and what nobody talks about, but does anyway.
Drivers learn what to do to "make it work."

There are the rules and then there is the reality of the work.
Every driver knows this to be true.

It's easier to hew to the laws if you're on your own much of the time and you run with an honest company. Unfortunately, if you run with the roustabout cowboy run-and-gun crowd, you have to face the realities of that choice.

 

In my experience, the expectation to hide your real hours in 'off-duty' is pretty darn explicit.

Mileage pay, for one, has made drivers co-conspirators with companies in their own demise. 100-plus hour weeks are typical. Plus, there's kind of an adrenalin push to get running to the next load once you make delivery that also works in the company's favor and against the driver. We're all susceptible to it. Spending your life in a closet-sized space is as boring as jail.

Hauling freight breaks the monotony.

The OP references oilfield work, not OTR but it should come as no surprise that abuses are no different there. Drivers have been exempted from the most important wage/workplace protections.

We are a return to the age of sweatshops.

 

Oh BS. Every driver knows right from wrong and can say the word NO at any time. The "woe is me, I have to do what they say" mentality is embarrassing. We are adults. Most with fully functioning minds of our own. Nobody tells me to be unsafe or do it any other way than the way I think it should be done. Stop pretending to be sheep led to the slaughter. Put your man pants on already.

 

You're full of it.
Go up to the oilfields and tell your employer NO and see how fast you'll be out on your #####.

 

If it's unsafe you're darned right I'll tell them no. My life, not theirs.

 

LOL. OK, sparky.