Are you attacked for 34hour restarts?

Uh.....you're being harassed because you follow the law????

 

I've ever had an issue with it.

 

Who ever told you that is full of crap. I have never heard of a company that dosen't like it when you use it. It gives you more hrs to run which means more frieght gets moved. So they (and you) make more money. As for the police. As long as you log it legal. They could care less.

 

Diesel driving school, lol. Not necessarily the wrong time, but sounds like the wrong "diesel" school for sure. Question him on it some. Show him your smarter than he is.

 

Not only have I never heard of companies or cops frowning on the 34 hour reset, I've never heard even one driver complain their company discouraged the 34 hour reset. Just the opposite is more likely to be the case. That is, some drivers complain that their company requires them to use the 34 hours reset, usually this takes the form of "I don't even get the weekend off work. They leave me home just long enough for the 34 hour reset and then I'm dispatched again." 34 hour reset is great for simplifying loogbook "gotchas." Just make sure your 34 hour reset is a full 34 hour reset or you will have real hours of service problems. If you don't use the reset you only pick up the same number of work/drive hours you used several days ago. Much better to use the reset and not need to keep track of the hours you used last week.

One thing I noticed very early once I entered trucking is the common tendency among many people in the industry to make no distinction between their personal preference, company requirement and what is law or regulation. I can't count the number of times some driver says "the regs require X or Y" and then you find out he's just retelling what his first company required him to do and so he thinks X and Y are law. You will absolutely see this problem once you get a trainer. Your trainer will likely want things done a certain way in the truck, because the company expects that or because that's how he does them. Do them that way, the trainer has to approve you to your company, but don't confuse his preference for the only way. Always be wiling to drop any habit if there is a better way.

 

There is no "right" diesel school . Knowing very well that there is a growing oversupply of drivers and most of their students will remain jobless these schools are just exploiting desperate people .