Originally Posted by blackf3504dr

The Super 10 is a whole different animal. Unlike a staight 10 or 13 you don't go through the gears, flip the button and do it again. You start out with the button in the low position but instead of grabbing the next gear you flip the button to high , let off the throttle and the tranny shifts. When you're ready to "move the stick" you flip the button back to low and move the stick to the next gear. You're only moving the gear shift 4 times (unless you start out in low) so it's really a lazy mans transmission... The first time I drove one I loved it, it was an older International coe. it was at the Eaton Road Ranger training center in Marshall Mi.,The company I drove for sent the drivers there for the defensive driving course (it was a lot of fun!) . As luck would have it the next company truck I got had the Super 10 ....

Originally Posted by Tuckster

I have a similar situation..... no recent class "A" experience. Went out and got my own authority and ready to buy a truck and even took a refresher course at a CDL school but only Progressive (so far) is willing to insure me and they have a 500 mile radius which ain't gonna work. I'll keep looking but I'm not real confident at this point. I really want to go independent so going to work for someone else is not an option ( at my age).
Boy am I glad I didn't buy a truck 1st. I never saw this coming.
I could drive it to the grocery store but wouldn't be able to haul cargo.

Originally Posted by Royedw

Kay,

After a little more than two weeks on the road I have learned, the 14 hour rule is BS and if you use all 11 hours you have a day to drive you will have to shut down because you will run out of hours! (your company ain't going to like that!)

I have learned that most drivers under these new rules are "recreating" log sheets every day to gain work time and/or shorten their work day to start their 10 hour break earlier to get back on the road. For me, 10 hours is too long to have to sit, if I sleep for 6, I'm ready to go. And counting sleep or off duty time as part of a 14 hour day almost forces you to change your book at the end of the day to pick up valuable work hours. I have spoken to a number of drivers at shippers, receivers and truck stops and they all agree, that's why companies are giving drivers loose leaf log pages now. No more pads that DOT can look at to see of sheets have been removed...

The company runs us hard and if I want to make money I have to run hard. When I told a dispatcher I only had 2.75 hours to drive after he told me my pickup was 4-5 hours away, he put me on the phone with the Safety Director and I was told, "be creative"!! I have also found out it is a learning experience to do logs under the new rules, and split logging right now is too damned confusing! / lyion here,warning ,warning,warning- i guess you dont no about what may happens if you are cault by dot first of all if dot pull-es you in and decides to look at every thing you have they my wont to look at all your papers im talking about your manifest for all the loads you have in the truck.if they see you picked up at a certan time and place look at fuel receipts any thing that show you some where El's there going to fine you big time and put you out of service and it will go on your dmv record no.2 if you have a bad accident or your company gets a dot odit if they find your logs out or if they find another drivers logs out there probly going to dig a lot deeper like i said if they find you are out on your logs they will come after you along with the company and could coast you a lot of money .dot can go back 3 years on you if they come to your home terminal .your required to keep the last 8 days of logs in your truck for where you ran that past 8 days.its hard to hide that say you in cal and 2 days ago you were in fla your in trouble.the only way of hiding every thing while your on the road is to buy a new log book every day and showing 34 ours off duty but like ive said you syned for the freight for the load your on it should have the time and date the load was picked up they see that your be fined and put out of service. i guess sence your new in trucking you have no idea how much your be find if your caught.some states it may be only
$80 or $90 bucks cal.Connecticut could be $2,000 or more ?do you have the money to pay it some require you to pay it right then and there are you could be put in jail are have your truck could be put under bond and untill the bond is payed that truck wont be alloyed to go any where may be in pounded.and no.3 if you get ot-ed by the IRS they will wont to see all your log books for tat past year and if they find your logs off they can go back farther .now you better take this as a warning from a driver who noes i was pushed when i had my on truck and when even i was a company driver. i went for almost a year buying new log books every day because i was runing 4,000 to 4,500 . i no very well were out here to make as much money for the company and our selves especially today you need every dollar you can make but remember that few hundread dollars you may make will be chump change if you get cault by the wrong dot in certan states so you might wont to be very careful with your log books .any thing and every thing dot can use against you they will because its there job to make money for there state thats why they just dont give out warning they wont the money. like most Rockey's the police and dot get raises when they give out a lot of tickets with promotions to boot.you can take my advice or not but now you no what can happened.ask some drivers wove gotten cault in cal.or some other states what it coast them when they got cault. may be it will give you a second look at wheather its realy wearth it to do it .just my 2 cents, been there and done that and got cault.it will also go on your dack report ,its on mine.good luck to you drive when your not tired pull it over when you get tired regardless what your company says you a lone are responceable your the driver your the first one there go after remember if you have a bad accident and you kill some one out on the road if dot or police find your logs deliberly falsified you may go to prison for a long time .listen to what your body tells you, pull it over if your tired it may be the diference
between you liven another day or going to a one way ticket to the morg.
Roy