The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) has created a tool that they hope will help truckers stay compliant with the new Hours of Service regulations.
FMCSA is calling the tool the Educational Tool for Hours of Service (ETHOS) module. Drivers can input their daily logs, or even fill out a test log to see if they’re in compliance. FMCSA says that the tool is intended to help motor carriers and drivers to understand the HOS regulations and changes that have been made.
To use the tool, drivers enter in a window of time, mark it as ‘off-duty,’ ‘sleeper berth,’ ‘driving,’ or ‘on-duty, not driving.’ Any time a violation is registered, the tool will send up an alert, letting the user know what rule has been violated.
The HOS changes went into effect on September 29th.
You can use the tool here, and read detailed instructions on how to use the tool here.
So I can’t believe how companies are as we as our government taking our rights away, all truck driver need to stop working for one day and see everything crash then we would get our rights back and not be told by people who never drove truck to stop making these rules
It takes more than one day to crash the economy going to take three days for the food to me, it’ll take a week for the hell you been doing but you’re going to be drivers after this won’t stop but the point
I’m willing to take 3 days or a week off. Say when!!
What’d he say? Nice writing nimroid.
I’ve been yelling about thus fir years, but it is now too late!
There I said it: its too late!
Unless you have a plan to get ALL OF THE U.S. FOREIGN IMMIGRANT drivers to get on 1 accord (AND STOP THINKING ABOUT MONEY MONEY GET ALL THE MONEY), it is too late!
Big Company C E.O.s have now saturated trucking with more immigrant drivers than real American Drivers, my guess
75% foreigners / 25% Americans
by 2022 we will be looking at
85% / 15% Americans….
The changes are worthless and the owner operators get the shaft. Now the guy who pushed this through is working for a driverless company from China. He set himself up real good at the cost of the O/O.
Can you explain how it affects owner operators instead of responding emotionally?
How does having a tiny bit of flexibility give the shaft to O/O’s and not to Company Drivers?
Serious Question.
I will answer!
Because these f’ks are not asking us shiz-nit!
They are just sitting in D.C. and having their “oh yeah” moments and making insignificant elog changes every 3 months.
OOIDA should be out at every truck stop nationwide instigating
a national/ Mexican+ Canadian driver participation truck strike!
we may not agree with B.L.M & ANTIFA methodology however, we truckers blew a great opportunity by not joining them and seeking out media with our demands.
WITH NO APOLOGIES!
Class a CDL driver with hazmat endorsement , tanker ,
These changes really helps nobody as a driver i choose to continue the same way as before the changes.this was only put in to relieve some of the pressure off the face by the government
Well, they’re helping the hell out of us. Being able to pause your time has always been wanted by drivers.
The pause is the best I always wished we can pause instead of loosing precious time it could be the difference between sleeping at home or a truck stop
But only if you use the sleeper berth option. If you the off duty nothing changes I myself don’t used sleeper berth when I was a rookie it got pounded into my head but other drivers who I was friends with. The best way to help us is to takeaway the 70 hrs clock and maybe just too make it simple do a 12 on and 12 off routine but at least give the drivers who use the off duty option the same things as if we use sleeper berth.
Complete BS, worthless and a continued shame and shaft to the real truck driver who’s truly attempting to earn a real living wage while also maintaining a real family life.
Now for all the newer steering wheel holding while pushing buttons and last but not least texting types, you should love these new no changes that do nothing except to confuse you and your like minded idiots further. Safety First””””
Stop being so negative, it is more flexible now than before, I just wish we could do the old 5 and 5 split. But being able to use a fuel stop as your 30 min break and only counting driving time towards your 9 hours is huge advantage.
How I use the off Duty instead of sleeper berth how does it help me I don’t have the pause clock option unless I use sleeper berth the 30 min. Is no big deal we usually stop somewhere for 30 minutes during the day but I’m old school and I do long haul maybe thats why I see it the way I do
If you can’t figure out how to make it work for you, that is a YOU problem. It’s called adjusting.
It’s not exactly rocket science to figure out how to best make this work for your clock and your hours.
You make an excellent point!
Be safe!
They yes want to make it hardest for us
They want big companies to profit of it but small owner operators go out of business
That’s sad.
Unfortunately there’s not a lot of old school drivers out here anymore such as myself, 50 yrs and still going, the old school log system was kind of like the new regulations except in this case the pause was a longer period. Your clock stopped. If you have 11 hrs of driving time left for that day, say you drive 6 hrs, but your run in longer than 6 hrs, but you just can’t seem to stay awake , you can take up to a 3 hour nap, yes you’ll arrive later than expected,but the way I see it you’ll still have hours left from that day and the nap time a driver took will not be deducted from your 11 hrs. And you’ll arrive safely instead of taking that chance when you couldn’t seem to stay awake.
Thanks for the explanation I agree
42 years here, and bailing out in 2 more years….I can’t wait!
These HOS of service have nothing to do with safety, it is all about Corporate America. Like State weigh stations, just a piggy bank!
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IDK where you got your info from, but in 2020? It’s almost ALL old school drivers?
The Avg Truck driver is 55-60 years old and the average OTR driver has more than 15 years experience.
There are not very many young drivers starting in our industry, it is very top heavy with veteran truck drivers. And once they start retiring, there isn’t another crop of drivers to step up and fill that void. That is why there is such a push for automation. Almost all of America’s truck drivers are OLD truck drivers.
The point is can you take a good nap or good sleep ?? Too many noisy neighbors around ! Can’t win !
Blame on DOT . Stupid people ! Make it simple . As long as you take 10 hrs off each day and 30 minutes break . You can drive safely for 14 hrs , on duty included driving ! Freedom ! Feel safe without worrying , therefore drivers can relax , slow down , etc .
you really have to wonder when the guy who pushed it through is now with a driverless outfit. i know it was a bigger issue than one person, but still. what i want with ‘more flexibility’ is to be able to choose to avoid possible trouble if i can define trouble spots. reality is it only helps w/ long-haul as day to day traffic and weather problems will never be forcastible to a degree that will help. just in time plans are weeks out if not months and the production plans/supply must be met. plan a concrete pour, once the day is chosen things are moving a week or more in advance.
to me, being able to get over donner or snoqualmie the night before a snow storm can mean days of availability compared to 3-4 hours of over -clock shift. or creeping through a 20 mile stretch of urban highway for three hours when it could take 20 minutes and then just waiting outside shipper/ receiver will not ruin a week of panned p/u- del. nobody, and i mean NOBODY, wants to drive when they are tired, it is a horrible feeling to be nodding and have no place to stop. the recent push to close off all points where drivers used to stop for that 1/2 hour nap is the most dangerous thing in transportation right now, except for am unmonitored electrical system zipping 80K down the street. of course with traffic now pounding out 70 mph as a norm, vehicles pulling into traffic is a concern. perhaps that is the problem. it seems to me everything arrived on time when we were going 55. and could make a choice; but what the hell let’s get another 3 million trucks sitting in the truckstops all night idling away sitting there watching the clock that knows when a driver can drive ‘safely’. if you can’t trust a driver to know when to stop he /she probably shouldn’t be behind the wheel in the first place. it’s when you get a dispatch that tries to shove a 1/2 dozen days in a row of these shift extensions onto the driver. the driver knows when he is getting in over his head. to dispatch it is just a ‘little’ more, the driver is living it.
It don’t matter what rules they put into effect cause drivers will never be happy every driver wants rules that fit their Narrative if it don’t fit it’s not for them there’s nothing but a bunch of cry baby drivers out here now . NOTHING BUT CRY BABIES. Here’s an idea if you don’t like the rules quit driving a truck I been driving for 10+ years never had and issues with the HOS or the Regulations and still made money. It’s as simple as this if u don’t wanna deal with it anymore get out of the truck or park it for good
That’s because you’ve never driven under the old rules, 10/8 with a 4/4 sleeper split.
I’m an o\o and it works for me! With the 150 AIR miles I no longer need to run a log! Just a time card with 14 hours to complete my day. Much simpler for me and many others. BTW I run a 93 KW W900 so I’ve been on paper this whole time still.
Oh and remember it’s air miles. Which according to the FMCSA would equal 172.6 statute miles.
What a bunch of whiners.
I just don’t like having the 30 min break forced. If it takes 30 or more minutes to drop and hook at a busy DC after driving only 1 hours, that 30 min break kicks in. The result? Having to take another 30 min break before end of shift. Since the clock doesn’t freeze until 2 full hours off, that cuts into the remaining 14 hour clock. It makes no sense to force it so soon.
you are a absolutely correct.. I have been back otr 20 years now..