My honest opinion

Who sleeps 10 hours a day or even 8 for that matter? I doubt I've slept more than 8 hours in a night since I was 16 years old. I usually go 6-7 hours sleeping then I'm awake and ready to rumble. Doesn't matter if I'm home or in the truck. The problem with the rules are that they assume every person is exactly the same. Some people need more sleep than others. All the 10 hour break has done for me is allow me to get really good at the games on my phone and read a ton more books.

 

Apparently those chuckle heads at FMCSA in their infinite wisdom have decided that they need to do a sleep study with a view to going back to the old way of splitting sleeper hours.
I've no idea what sort of conclusions they're going to come to as you can figure out that the drivers have got their own way of rest.
What works for me probably won't work for the next guy. Why, on earth do they need to do another study. Study what, the variances of sleeping habits?
Just another waste of time and more Govt meddling. Give us the option to split the rest times. It worked before. Let's have more flexibility or is that too much to ask?
i don't need anymore than 6-7 hrs sleep a night. I'm ready to roll after that but I do like an afternoon power nap after lunch which gives me more energy to drive on.
But the bottom line is we are an easy target for LE. We are sitting ducks and the cops don't have to do much to pull us over and enforce the regulations.

 

I kinda like to sleep when and where I want, Take a nap when and where I want, Eat when and where I want, shower when and where I want, Fuel when and where I want. I do these at different times and different locations. In other words, I can think for myself.

 

This is true. But........ These pilots, engineers and captions do not cross paths with so many officials in a day that can ruin their records with half baked citations. We cross paths with dozens of these people every day.

 

We are like other jobs where regulations exist and have existed for a long time.

If you don't like it, then either come up with a way to change it, like voting and talking to those who you elect or go to another job because it ain't going away.

I don't think so.

 

Oh NO! Big brother can't have that! You cannot be allowed to think for yourself! That might threaten the very existence of all the high ranking bureaucrats, who are too lazy and dumb to ever get buy in the private sector.

 

Where do people get this from?

When I was OTR, I would run into one a week, not one every hour.

Pilots are highly regulated, when there is an accident, even a minor one, the pilot may end up talking to people for weeks, a trucker may be 20 minutes.

Try working at a company that has embedded regulation enforcers on site, that's a PIA and trucking has nothing close to this, crap as easy as this is and as much leeway we have, this is truely a cakewalk of a job.

 

My honest opinion is that I don't truly have one, because I don't get a straight answer. Apparently I enjoy turning though, so it's all good.