FIRE THOSE "FATIGUED" DRIVERS, or maybe.......

Now, can you imagine if they enforced waiting time rules and fined the shipper/receiver?

This is the point I make in any of these issues: Don't expect the trucker to be an extension of the DOT! If you follow the rules %100, you will be unemployed. If you break the rules %100, you will be unemployed. So is there a expiration date attached to a CDL? Yes, along with the career that goes with it.

I was the lead driver at a logistics company here in Fort Worth Texas and I would tell the drivers where to park down the street and that I would come to wake them us as soon as we could get to them. A truck number, and they could go to sleep knowing that I would wake them up in order. We had drivers WANTING to haul out of our warehouse. If this were in the day of the cell phone #'s I would have used that as a wake up call.

They could all be like this but there is one difference. I like truckers! Most warehouses hate 'em.

 

amen to that...I agree I run when i want and stop when i want if im tired i rest etc...my wife and i have a motto we run on the rules god made...do whats right!! not what some one that has never even driven a truck decides what the rules should be...COMMON SENCE! is the way I run!!!

 

I once drove across Louisiana look for a place to stop on I-10 for the night. I was tired in Mississippi and ended up stopping in Texas.

 

Hey Jeep...you should have holleered out to OLDNEW..he would have let you park in his yard and rest...if you would have let him sit in the drivers seat and pull the horn cord!

 

Sorry oldnewbie, I said the same thing when I first started out that I would run completely legal but then I realized and understood why other's ran illegal, because if you don't at some point, you might as well walk into an interview and tell them you will work for free fifty free because even running illegal these day's ain't bringing home much. Thing is, I don't work for free. Not trying to be an ###-hole or mean anything bad by this but that's just the way it is in this industry. A couple of guy's ( no names) swore up and down I wouldn't make it in the trucking world but so far I've proved them wrong and I'll continue to prove them wrong.

 

Same thing happened to me on I-81. Got tired IN VA, finally found a spot to park in Carlisle, PA!!!

 

If you run 100 percent legal you are not supporting a family or your spouse has a good job!!also you are driving tired..becouse no one can run and sleep in an uneven pattern such as going to bed at 3pm today wake up at 1am drive 11 hours then go to bed at noon and get up 10 hours later and do it again...then unload reload take a break or what ever...say you go to bed at noon after unloading..sleep your 10 hours (who sleeps 10 hours??)example!! then find out no reload untill six am you sure as hell cant go to sleep you just slept 10 hours..so now your awake most of the night doing what ever..but at six am you are going to get loaded and are legal to drive...log books are good but the hours of service are rediculous sleep when tired and drive when you are rested...I always run illeagle simply becouse if i did not i would be driving tired and sitting when im not able to rest!!

 

Your posts have long bypassed weird. They have become surreal.

Maybe its time you actually got a job driving a truck, or at least a ride in one before continuing your crusades on here.

 

who you talkin to?