Why CSA 2010 and E-Logs are a good thing.

Those of you who are hoping for e-logs......Just wait till you run out of hours and your 30 miles from home! see how you like them then.

Outlaw truckers are the ones who built this business! They will never go away! Those of you wishing they would are just sad candy ### truckers.

 

that's easily remedied...simple thing called "thinking ahead"! If you know (or suspect) you will not have the legal hours to get to home....back off and take a break with a split sleeper, or just stop and take a full 10 outside of the close proximity to home so you won't be tempted to run "outlaw".

While in your mind, they may have "built this business"...what they have done is caused this HOS petty rules to be needed. I grew up around truckers, somehow they all managed to run legal! Maybe it was because they had respect for rules and regulations instead of being of the mindset to always push to see what they could get away with!

 

Come on... you can come up with something harder than that can't you? You are making this too easy! I am on E-logs. I have had the situation you mention a couple of times. Easy. Drop the trailer (I have prearranged several locations in a 60 mile radius of me I can drop a trailer at), then go to OFF DUTY DRIVING and drive on home. No foul. If the trailer is empty and I am not going to get a load, then that also is a no brainer... just go to OFF DUTY DRIVING and take truck and trailer both home. No different that what someone can legally do on paper now.

Yes, it is legal to drive a commercial truck OFF DUTY as long as you are not heading somewhere under dispatch, do not have a load in the wagon, or are bobtail. Check your little green FMCSA book sometime. Yes... I have been stopped and checked doing this. No warnings, No citations. Max distance I have done this is 240 miles. There is no mileage limit specified in the regulations.

 

It is for someone like you, but not for a company driver.

 

Depends on the company. DHE allows the drivers to use the "unladen exemption"...I'm sure, with the issue of tight hours being used up, many more companies will be joining the ranks.

 

Majority will not allow them the ability to drop a trailer and drive it home.

 

OK...how do you drive it home if you already dropped it?




You knew that was coming....didn't you?!?

 

And this 'thinking ahead' would help someone on their 70hrs... how? Gasp! Yes, some of us do run up on our 70 every week... You know, the drivers that are out there really working... or the 'Git-R-Done' types as we are refered to on this forum. If you think that I'm gonna take my 34 off, 30 miles from my home... please quit driving now... you will NEVER pass your next drug test... as your obviously smoking crack.

What caused the HOS petty rules IS a desire for revenue. There is NOT a shred of evidence that suggests HOS rules have improved safety.

 

What if there were no rules?
Would the road be safer?
Would dispatchers let the driver sleep when he was tired?
Would drivers have the sense to stop when they needed to stop?
Would you earn more and have a better life if there was no rules?

 

Over 30 years in this business and it has gone to crap from all the self proclaimed "Super Truckers". I'll be glad when they are finally run off and I don't have to compete with them anymore.

Yes, they do keep the rates down, by running loads illegally for the same rate it takes to run them legally. If you're going to be illegal, at least take lessons from true criminals and make good money for the risk, instead of being amateurs.