Do they not like locals driving 5 days/week?

Oh come on, that's not the explanation I was initially going for, merely a tangent. Go ahead and rub it in. My plan will come together, one way or another. I fancy the thought of not doing logs, if possible. Simply a paradigm shift for me (hadn't considered resets on paper for a while, yeah they do look different, my lines are about as squiggly as the roads I drive, no wonder I can't freehand a straight line), and I don't really want to consider the whole rule book if it's not in play for a given job. I'll see what they say on Monday, whether I should be available 5 or 6 days a week (or 4 if they want to be religious about Sundays, it seems that sleep is now every truckers religion).

 

Really? Maybe I can get a rationale for this, if not the 7/8 day time warp (it seems to me having fewer drivers might be the same difference as more with less earnings or hours, if that's about overhead), what's the diff?

 

Yeah, sure. If the FMCSA knew why, maybe they could tell us too. My question there, I think is most relavent to local driving, given that long haul doesn't have to deliver on Sunday to be on the road for it, that's all.

 

FMCSA say:

What is the purpose of the 168-hour provision?
The purpose of the rule change is to limit work to no more than 70 hours a week on average.

Okay, what is the purpose of limiting it to no more than 60 hours? Or do these provisions contradict each other...

 

Really? I hadn't heard that.