Split Sleeper Confusion with Company Regulations

I get paid by the mile. Not using split sleeper would cost me multiple hours in the flatbed world delivering and reloading the same day 3 times a week. It absolutely does cost me money in the long run.
You can believe what you want but my company and myself isn't mismanaging my truck. i did 160k miles last year on a flatbed running running 6 Western states for the most part.

Maybe you can, but I don't know how to control traffic. It takes 3+ hours on a good day to get out of LA in the afternoon going eastbound. Split sleeper helps me get out of it , otherwise I'd be stuck and unable to make deliveries later then usual losing a reload or more per week.

I'm not sure how that is mismanagement. To me it is the opposite. Knowing how to run your #### .

 

If it's costing you you're not being paid for your time. You're underpaid. It's just a way to legally fudge your logs in case somebody wastes your time so basically you're giving your time up for nothing. Or in your case so you can run really hard.

 

Running hard means making more money when u get paid by the mile. I'm not out here to play with my dick in truck stops . I'm out here to run hard and make as much money as possible. Pretty simple

 

Right, you have to jack around and use a loophole to meet someone else's unreasonable expectations to make a paycheck. If you don't your paycheck suffers. Where I'm at now we don't do split sleepers and the paychecks are steady. That's how it ought to be for every driver out here. Back when I was doing split sleeper every time I ever did one I was always tired and aggravated that I had to do it. No load or amount of money out here is worth driving fatigued and risking everything over.

 

AI hallucinations are why you cannot trust what Google or ChatGPT tells you without double-checking yourself. It's wrong.

I suppose the nuance is that dot cannot find you for it but you can #### well be fired for it with no consequences.

 

Well great for you bro !! Nobody gives a rats ###.
You run your truck . I will run mine . If we all did #### the same way, life would be pretty ##### lame..
just because u don't like the split, doesn't make it wrong. But with that attitude you will do well with a career in politics, thinking your way is the only way.

 

That's not what it is. It's just screwed up how trucking is. Everybody donates free everything and somebody else makes a buck because of it. You put your health and well being on hold splitting up rest breaks so somebody else isn't inconvenienced. You're trained pretty well to think that's reasonable and ok. If you end up in a ditch because you're tired they'll toss you under a bus real fast.

 

Dude just stop. u are talking pure ignorance. I have been doing split breaks multiple times a week ever since they changed the rule to make it worthwhile.. and let me add nobody is making me do what I do. I run my truck the way I do because that's the way I like it. My company is a perfectly fine company to work for and very reasonable.. but I will also add there is maybe a handful of guys here that run like I do. And guess what we all make more money then anyone else. not everybody is the same way in how they run. I run hard and make money. If u want to sit around all day and play with ur picker then go ahead, but leave me alone.

I am perfectly rested doing split breaks.. in fact i get more tired having to do 10 breaks. you sound alot like these politicians that think they know what's good for everyone.
if they would add a 6/4 or a 5/5 i would never do another 10 break ever again.. but unfortunately because there is monkey brains like you . we won't ever get to have something that nice

 

Back when I was pulling flatbed the 5 and 5 was amazing with paper logs. I could leave Sunday for Utah, do 2 rounds to Home Depot in Kalispell and do a Missoula Home Depot that delivered Friday night. Home early Saturday morning and leave again about 5 on Sunday afternoon. It was dang good money 20 years ago. Get 5 hours of sleep a day and the other 5 was unloading and reloading and tarping. Let the book catch up and take off again.

I love the split sleeper now and contrary to some opinions I don’t use it because my time is being wasted. It’s pretty easy for me to kill a couple hours in the middle of the day by the time I shower and cook some food and walk the dog. If it takes me 90 minutes to do that I just kill another 30 minutes so my clock gets paused. Then I only have to land for 8 hours at night.

 

Knock yourself out. I'm working on the same 70 hour clock you are but don't go home worn completely out. Work smarter driver not harder.