BREAKING NEWS: Senators introduce bill to require EOBRs

The secret is to work smarter (more $/mile) not harder (more miles /week)!

If you worked smarter, you could work less, make more, AND BE HOME MORE or gee I don't know, have a life that doesn't have anything involving a frucking truck!!!

I don't know about you guys, but I don't live to drive a truck, I drive a truck to live!
My life is alot more than diesel fumes and truck stops. I guess if that makes me less of a real man or driver, I'll just have to live with that!

 

That is a crock of ####, plain and simple. Not everyone was born with a silver spoon up their ###. Some of us have to work harder than others to support our families.

It becomes exponentially harder to climb the ladder of success, the further down you are. Like the old saying goes, "it takes money to make money". And when ya ain't got none...

Yep, that'd fill all the prisons in the country in about... oh... three minutes or less.

 

Maybe in order to make everyone happy, we need to audit the logs for everyone. If they are found waiting in the truck while doing work and logging it off duty, they need to go to jail as well. After all, they violated the rules as well.

Fuel stop as 15 minutes even though it might take 35 minutes, lynch them.

 

drivers for this eobr #### are too lazy to work. they're the ones that lay up on their fat stinking lazy arse fighting to be first to the buffet table.

if factory workers, cops, lawyers, judges and etc. can work 16 hours a day, i should be able to to do the same. i can kill you in a car or suv just as fast as i can in a big truck.

 

the gov. can pass a law allowing 6 hours of driving time and there will still be wrecks. after a few years they will be back trying to cut driving time to 4 hours of driving time, 20 hours sleeper birth and one week restart.

 

Want to stop the stupidity?

Issue massive fines to the company that pushes..

Seing as this would never happen, the issue wont be resolved.
The buck will just be passed on down the line.

 

All you have to do is change the pay rate to by the hours and 99% of the driving over hours will stop.

Mark

 

looking at it from this end, you would think so.

Reality is, if you did that, provided freight didnt go to intermodal-rail, the cost of consumer products would likley nearly double overnight..

if drivers were paid hourly you would see trucks sitting in TS for longer than necessary, and noone would give a crap.

While i think the current way ( for bargian basement operators ) is too far the other way, the industry needs incentive to work.

All i believe needs to be done, is elevate the base wage rate, and actually put a hourly price on holdups from shippers and recievers.

Per mile IS an adequete payment system 'WHEN IMPLEMENTED CORRECTLY'....
The problem is the charges that need to acrue under delays and such have been ignored.


I personally know of drivers that would take a significant pay cut by being moved to an hourly wage.....

Remember, money isnt the sole motivating factor for illegal running, Shipper/Reciever pressure and timeframes are the most prominent.

EOBR create more problems than they solve. beause where is the extra capacity coming from to cover the shortfall when people get hung out 30 min from their destination?

Facts are, this is a play to further erode the benifits of O/O flexibility which is one of the main areas large co's fall over. they need inflexibility because of liability issues and drivers whom are generally undertrained or just plain dont care.

Next time you see that swifty lounging about in a TS playing video games and not being interested in making a move on down the road, remember that the EOBR rules are intended to bring them into competitiveness...

I operate in an environment where larger companies are afforded the advantage, and all its done is drive the profits of o/o down and allow them to scoop that bit more cream off the top.

 

Oh, and its pointless snipping the context out of my comment.
I dont edit things people say to attempt to prove my point.
If i needed to revert to editing then i would be fighting for the loosing side.

 

Donk, how do you know people will take a cut in pay by going paid by the hour?

That would put most truckers into the overtime entitlement, so 40 hours straight, then up to 30 at time and a half.

I get paid by the hour and make more money than when I was OTR. I still work from 40 to 70 hours a week, but do drive less miles. Some days it hard to get over 150 miles in 14 hours.

With EOBRS swifty sitting at the TS playing games will not be getting paid.

Mark