I am really confused with some of the posts on here regarding sleep. I have read a few threads where the driver is only getting 2 or 3 hours sleep a night? how is this possible? Correct me if I am mistaken but 14 hours is the max you can be required to work as an OTR driver? Do companies really push you to run beyond the legal hours? I am a total newbie to trucking so I could be full of it but the math does not add up unless you run illegally. I am a hard working vet and not against putting in a long day of work but I am not going to drive a semi truck weighing thousands of pounds on 2 hours of sleep. What is the reality in terms of actual hours spent doing work related activity and do you really have to run sleep deprived to get the job done.
10, 14, 24 hours
Discussion in 'Questions From New Drivers' started by Jumpman, May 13, 2021.
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You'll be using Elogs (Electronic Logs) so you'll always be able to get proper sleep.
Before Elogs many of us cheated and could go for days with very little sleep by using pills.
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In theory, you have 10 hrs off duty daily, but, there are times where you will sit allday waiting for a load, then get dispatched at 5 pm with a 7am delivery 500 mi away. So you had 10 hrs off, but did not sleep, right ? Now you have to adjust the ol' bod to stay up all night driving. Trucking....24/7 business.
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If you start your day at 8am you can work 14 hours till 10pm. Then you are required to take 10 hours off till 8am. Electronic Log Devices/books today have GPS and they are hooked into the truck engine. You can't drive more then 5MPH or change parking stops without logging something. So they days of 2 hour sleeping is over.
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Don't believe everything you read here. Most of us sleep at home every night, go to work at 10am and are back home by 3pm. It's an easy job and we make big bucks for doing it.
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