8 day 70 hour rule?

If'n you stop for ten during your 14, you get a new 14! Not that complicated... I just reset at a receiver so I can run a load this afternoon and try to hit GA before Wednesday is over.

 

Actually, I think that's the Unions....so they don't have to compete with people that live on the road, versus their homebody membership.

 

Could you ever get permission to log offduty in certain situations when you know you are gonna wait for hours at a shipper/receiver and you may run out of driving hours later to make that delivery/pickup?

 

Yes, if your employer specifically gives you a letter specifically giving you permission to be off duty (meaning you are not responsible for anything during that time) for breaks, eating, etc... as long as you are NOT supervising, waiting for paperwork, etc... you are off-duty, you can. If you are working, you're working.

 

If you are just waiting and you don't have any responsibilities like counting or watching it get loaded, I would say yes. Do not take my word for it as I could be wrong. I may look that one up.

 

My dog eats my log book all the time.

 

You have to remember that I worked with Congress on lots of this stuff. Yes the unions want to keep the wage up for truckers. The teamsters did much to make our life better. The problem is that we are way to independent to join unions now. We all get upset when someone hauls cheap freight because that drives down our profits. Newbies who work for 25 cents a mile take our jobs. Cross boarder folk who work cheap drive down the cost of wages. Congress wants us to work safe but the folks who write the laws (lobbyist) are also interested in wages. During regulation of the trucking industry profits were insured. Now, folks undercut all the time. It is human nature. Unions are not the problem. An industry that is part union and part non union is the problem. A house divided and all that.

Everyone should work for 45 cents a mile except me. I should be paid more.

When you run illegal, you are costing yourself money in the long run. Punny but true.

 

The real fact is the union officials want more trucks to be needed so more drivers will be needed to boost their decreasing membership . The union is the problem because their demands for higher wages and benefits cause private fleets to sell their trucks and get Schneider and U.S. Xpress to distribute their products with dedicated accounts .

 

"You" who ? ALWAYS ? I'd say that isn't true for most of us . I am rarely at a shipper or receiver more than 2 hours and detention time starts after that . Sit for 9 hours ? I'd love it . A day's pay for doing nothing .

 

Under those circumstances a letter isn't required . The letter is required for lunch breaks but not for time when you have no responsibilities .