Had a clown today and I mean clown. I'm looking at his log book and the previous day he started in Orlando, FL and made a run to Ruther Glen, VA in 5 hours. Making this trip myself many times over the years to my folks place, it was a easily discovered bunch on BS. I think the best I ever did it was between 11 and 12 hours and that was with no traffic. Driver had no clue why he was placed out of service. Not only that, just about every day he was shaving anywhere from 2 to 4 hours off trips. Then his toll and fuel receipts hinked him up as well.

Then shortly after I was done with him, the next truck I stopped was messed up to. I thought I had seen most things someone could do with a log book. But, this was a first for me. The guy tells me he loaded in Florida on friday. However his log doesn't show this at all. Saturday and most of the day on Sunday he logs off duty. But somehow his manifest shows the load was loaded and the manifest printed on Saturday, a whole day after he says that he loaded but failed to log. So in the middle of his 34 hr reset he's loading, when he says he was in North Carolina off duty since Friday night, but loading in the Miami area. Another puzzled look today by another confused driver.

Originally Posted by otherhalftw

Well here we go again...there is no provision, any different wording, or any regulation that REQUIRES the use of any kind of "tie down" or "restraint" while in the sleeper berth...that I have ever been witness to or heard about or read...if there is please show me!......The sleeper berth is not a passenger area, the passenger seat is and is covered by the seat belt laws...not the sleeper berth.!

So then....WHY!!! Does the DOT check to see if the ###### thing is there when they inspect?

Not every time but they have checked mine a time or two and my buddy with the big mouth that I mentioned previously has had his checked so many times he can't even remember when was the last time they didn't check to see if it was there.

Originally Posted by otherhalftw

The "harness" in the bunk is a recommendation, a company "policy", a warning it should be used to further the safety of the occupant. However, I have yet to have anyone, with any rescue training or experience tell me, show me, or prove to me that the "harness" will aid in your remaining safer, or less injured, if you have it on and your student wrecks the truck...in fact the "harness" can, and will become a clear and present hindrance in evacuating or extricating an individual from the wreckage if that were the case...those things are a tangle...a spiders web when a body is getting tossed around in the bunk area...just what I want is to be tangled in a harness when I should be getting out of the inferno!

There you go OBGYN, how's that? NEXT CASE!

I agree that the things are one of the dumbest items installed on a truck and mine is tucked under the mattress which a DOT cop in Indiana told me was not kosher but that he was gonna act like he didn't see it.

If I could get a straight answer out of someone regarding the thing I will remove it altogether if I can.