Originally Posted by TheRoadWarrior

Thats when im done....august 30th....to many hands from the goverment digging into trucking... i refuse to ever run E-logs or on board recorders....im not going to have some machine tell me how long i have to driver or when i have to stop....and the way companies treat drivers these days only make me happier that im an O/O... Sad but very true...

Can't say I blame ya. If I had been doing this for that long and facing these changes, I'd probably say Eff It as well. I've got another dozen years, though. But I'm always keeping my eyes open for the right opportunity.

Isn't it funny, though. So much technology has gone into these trucks we drive to make them inherently safer and far more comfortable than in years long past. Yet, the paper-pushers in DC that can't even spell the word truck are hell-bent on legislating a "perfect world", (at least in their eyes) because of what they view as problems in the industry, which in turn are at least based upon rules written during the Franklin Roosevelt presidential administration.

Sad indeed.

Originally Posted by 48Packard

Isn't it funny, though. So much technology has gone into these trucks we drive to make them inherently safer and far more comfortable than in years long past. Yet, the paper-pushers in DC that can't even spell the word truck are hell-bent on legislating a "perfect world", (at least in their eyes) because of what they view as problems in the industry, which in turn are at least based upon rules written during the Franklin Roosevelt presidential administration.

Sad indeed.

The funny part is at 5 o'clock when they jump in their 4 wheelers and drive like maniacs to get home.

Of course we all have to give it up after December 22
right?

roadmedic, the drivers you know who got ticketed for P/C. did they have it logged in ther log book before they got pulled over?

i think there lies the problem, guys plead personal conveyance AFTER they get pulled over and checked. if ya got it in the log when its handed to the officer its say much for the intent, and in fact if it isnt there the log could said to be not current, the same if you dont drop to line 3 when you begin driving.

and if ya lose at the first court level, you can appeal to the next highest court.


call and ask treutlen county, ga (soperton, ga) about the idiot(their term) who fought a ticket for a mud flap being to short for 2 years (35 dollar ticket). went to court over 6 times , but i won.

find out if they had it logged beforehand, be interesting to know

Originally Posted by skateboardman

roadmedic, the drivers you know who got ticketed for P/C. did they have it logged in ther log book before they got pulled over?

i think there lies the problem, guys plead personal conveyance AFTER they get pulled over and checked. if ya got it in the log when its handed to the officer its say much for the intent, and in fact if it isnt there the log could said to be not current, the same if you dont drop to line 3 when you begin driving.

and if ya lose at the first court level, you can appeal to the next highest court.


call and ask treutlen county, ga (soperton, ga) about the idiot(their term) who fought a ticket for a mud flap being to short for 2 years (35 dollar ticket). went to court over 6 times , but i won.

find out if they had it logged beforehand, be interesting to know

Yes. Logs reflected it.

From what I've seen once you get comfortable operating in the gray, you start to live in the gray. It's good while it's good, but once it goes bad it goes really bad. I'd prefer to stay in the black and white and take the average work to make it better.