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Well you made it, anyway. Mine are easy to reach, but switching back after 2 months in a Star is awkward, I use the electric horn more often because this one actually works.
It's not loud enough. I want these.

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So am I getting this straight? They want to reduce our hours even further? Did I read that properly?

What they wanted to do a few years ago is to get rid of the 34 hour restart and go back to 10 hours driving.
The safety bone heads think that we can drive more hours a day with the current rules than the old ones.
Which in a perfect world is actually true.
If you have 100% drop and hook and no waiting at all for loads you can drive more under these rules.
Drive 11, rest 10, drive 11, rest 10 drive 11, rest 10 ect. Till out of driving time on 70, then take a 34 and repeat.
In a perfect world this is possible, but since we do not drive in a perfect world. We do not have 100% drop and hook and no delays. Also we have to log pretrip, fuel, load and unload ect, all at at least 15 min. This sucks up the hours also.
So there idea is fundamentally flawed. But they do not get it.
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I want a set of those for my pickup truck!
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I want a set of those for my pickup truck!
That's about as close as you can get to striking the traffic in your way like the fist of an angry god without having charges filed against you.
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What they wanted to do a few years ago is to get rid of the 34 hour restart and go back to 10 hours driving.
The safety bone heads think that we can drive more hours a day with the current rules than the old ones.
Which in a perfect world is actually true.
If you have 100% drop and hook and no waiting at all for loads you can drive more under these rules.
Drive 11, rest 10, drive 11, rest 10 drive 11, rest 10 ect. Till out of driving time on 70, then take a 34 and repeat.
In a perfect world this is possible, but since we do not drive in a perfect world. We do not have 100% drop and hook and no delays. Also we have to log pretrip, fuel, load and unload ect, all at at least 15 min. This sucks up the hours also.
So there idea is fundamentally flawed. But they do not get it.
So you're saying the 10hr rule would actually be beneficial to us? You lost me.
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That's about as close as you can get to striking the traffic in your way like the fist of an angry god without having charges filed against you.
No doubt!

I had a friend of mine one time meet me at the truckstop so we could run down south together. I had been running hard for 4 straight days with very little rest and while I was sitting at the TS waiting on him to show up I fell asleep still setting in the drivers seat. It's dusk and he gets there sees me sleeping and decides to wake me up ( what a friend lol ) he has train horns on his truck so he noses up to mine shines his brights on and lays on the train horns for a good 10 seconds! Needless to say I went from to to in about 5 seconds. He said he thought I was gonna jerk the steering wheel off the column and kick a whole in the floor. He still has payback coming though and you know what they say, payback is a mother!
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F them all. Switch all company drivers to hourly. O/T after 40, etc etc.

Watch the US die on the vine.
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F them all. Switch all company drivers to hourly. O/T after 40, etc etc.

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At what hourly rate?
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At what hourly rate?
Knowing the feds? Minimum wage.
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Knowing the feds? Minimum wage.


Federal or state?

If State, the state law where they live or where the company is located?

If where the company is located, I foresee many moving to Mexico.
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