HOS Violation

Better than Wimbledon!

Sirscrapntruckalot - Shh..don't disturb me, I'm watching the drama unfold.

 

6 days from now it never happen

 

The second one.

 

It's funny you said that,It actually happened to me in Va way long time ago. It turned out to be exactly 300lbs.I can remember walking through the tunnel(the scalehouse was nb I was sb)thinking, oh man, I'm screwed,it's going to cost me a $#!+load of money. I even asked if I could shovel it off, they said no. It turned out to be an axle weight and the fine was 37$, which believe it or not was a lot of money back then. Cash cows them scales are, learned how to go around them real quick, till someone told me to just use the bypass, never got another weight ticket.

 

You will go to jail if you have an accident in the next seven days! Better take a reset immediately!!

 

Ha! $37 ticket. Don’t ask what mine was.

 

In they're zest for safety they've forgotten 1 important fact. Life's a crapshoot and sometimes you roll snake eyes. I worked ground zero, all the safety in the world couldn't stop that mess from happening, and what they're doing is using that 1 incident as an excuse to try and control the masses.

 

I think your post is somewhat of a nature designed to tease a little bit. The Government knows nothing about what is possible or not.

Ive spent many a week both days and nights deep in trucking, sleep on sat and part of sunday to get going again sunday pm. (It's a young man's game)

What was impossible for this young man at 21 was to be dispatched by Port East of Baltimore with a Box at 2 am cross the Legion Bridge to Norfolk at sunrise, turn box in to ship and then stand around next to day cab all the way through to 5 pm awake and waiting for something back to baltimore, sometimes a box, many times a chassis. Get back at 10PM. Back at Port East yard at 3 am to do it again. I quit. Almost killed people north of Doswell from I-95 at US1 turn off bypass due to paving crews. 4 of them to be exact.

From all that I developed one very powerful thought.

"Driving sleepy. Is worse. Than driving. DRUNK." end of story. Dot. Period.

The one thing our blessed regulators refuse to do is give the Captain of the ship (The driver or team drivers) the ability to say: I am too tired to do this. and enforce same against anyone who tries to horsewhip them back out on the road. Regardless of the logbook situation.

That is all that is needed. You can run out your 70 hours any way you like. Open book. Just never drive tired. If you got into a accident and killed people and actually was tired, then it's the same penalties as driving drunk.

You cannot say, I am past 50 and am tired at 11 hours. That's BS. Im just getting started. Or to a 21 year old something else. Or everyone in between. As older as I am, 6 hours of sleep per day or night I am good for the next 30 hours give or take, which can be pushed (And does) to 50 hours if need be. (*Example taking care of ex in the ER or trauma at the VA, it will be a while before we get home again when she is taken care of and patched out.)

We have to have some kind of regulation. But I believe the Driver needs actual support to say "I am too tired" for a rest and not be afraid of being fired or whatever.

 

I agree. I knew a week prior those towers were going to go down, but if I called anyone and babbled crazy talk then they would have made me disappear in those days as a lunatic. Ive seen the burning piles at 930 PM on 9-12 crossing the GW in a grey KW2000 with a #### load of medicines for Linfield CT, I have no idea to this day the total load value. I do know the weights were up there and volumed out.

 

Stays on the books for 6 solid months back at the office. Auditors and more importantly, dog bite ambulance chasing lawyers will have discovery access to those logs and can convince a jury in your fatality crash trial that the driver had a history and pattern of exceeding legal time on their logs and if they were compliant his/her client might still be alive today so therefore they ask for $91 million in damages and the truck driver to do life without parole.