New HOS rules taking effect next month.

Electronic logs cannot.

Paper is one way.

Recap is the way I learned, so no big deal for me.

I do not work over 50 hours in a week anymore unless I decide to go on a long trip for a change.

 

Can't see doing the recap myself. 8.75 a day means way too much time sitting IMO. If I'm not home I want to be running.

I'm gonna do my best to make it home before 01:00 every Saturday. Can't see that working for long though as things beyond my control will take over and my reset will keep moving further into the week.

I'll see how it goes but I could see me looking for a new job that allows me to stay in Canada. Hard to believe the US has become the nanny state that dictates to such a degree when people have done enough work.

 

The last month or so, I have been working Sunday, Monday, Tuesday and home Wednesday.

 

I can see that the 30 minute break thing is going possibly cause more problems than the people who implemented it think it will solve.

My company is already 'friendly suggesting' that we no take any breaks at all before 6 hours have passed since we started our 14 hour clock. It won't be long before 'friendly' becomes 'direct order' and drivers who normally would have pulled over for a few minutes are now going to be afraid of showing line 1 time before 6 hours and therefore will push on and wreck out.

 

All this whining is not doing any good it is just another day in trucking .
That's the ting about trucking it is always the end of the world with every little change in the rule book .

Remember when they started putting brakes on the front axle and we all swore it was the end of safe driving on wet roads and we would all be dead in a wreck in a years time ?
Remember when the CDL was going to keep everyone safe because it would take all the bad drivers off the road ?
Remember when the random drug test was going to stop the west coast turn around usage ?
Remember when we were all going to be broke and homeless when the 14 hour rule started?
How about the time that they said that 34 restarts would kill more poor defenseless four wheelers as them killer trucker4s would not be rested enough to be safe ?

So I will just say it again like I have in times past the worry is worse that the reality .....we have survived all the other ends of trucking as we know it and we will survive this .
It will take some us longer then others to adapt but adapt we will and we will just keep on trucking because no matter how much it seems like they want to do away with us they can't live without us ....We know that as well as they know that .

So when the world ends on July 1st 2013 you find me out there just trucking along like the 33 years that I have been doing it before and the next 17 I plan on doing it after 1 July 2013 ..... or as long as me and the old Marmon can get on down the road !!!

 

2 days off a week will do the trick for me. Saturday-Sunday nice .

 

I was worried about the reset thing as well, but I haven't had a reset in 3 weeks. Taking one now and was still able to utilize my hours available. Guess its like we had to do before there was a reset. I also wonder how they figure you can choose which reset you want to do on Elogs. If I take a reset because I'm maxed out on hours. Then 2 days later I take home time. Saying that the first reset didn't count. That would probably make me over hours. Just hope your company can keep you busy and not on back roads and sitting in city traffic burning up your hours. If so it will hurt. Also the taking the 30 minute thing sucks because as others have said I can drive 11 straight no problem. Taking and extra 15 minutes off when you fuel holding up progress in a truck stop is not good. Or sitting on the side of the road and now going to be 30 minutes late because you had to take a break you didn't need is going to cause even more confusion. But like the one hand said. A SUPER TRUCKER WILL SURVIVE not in those words but when you hand a super trucker lemons. He makes Ice tea baby. Yeeee hawww. Getter done.

 

Nice. I've thought about cutting back but I'm at a point right now where I want to get as much as possible so I can do much less in a few years.

 

Truck is in the final month of payments. Maintenance will be the issue from here on.

The last 6 years felt like I was working for the truck.

55 years old and just do not feel like killing myself every week.

 

I still don't see the panic...... forget the 34 and start recapping again. Take the half at the fuel dock or at lunch and roll on. Dropping and picking worked fine for years and it will work fine again.

JMO