1099s force drivers to violate HOS.

"Don't worry about HOS. We can make it look legal. " That was an outfit called HazTrans. Imagine that. A HazMat company cooking the books. That's a recipe for disaster. Also, here's another one which I actually worked for until I had enough: Super Ego.

 

Super Ego: The first thing they did was set the ELD to an eight hour clock, so that if I wanted to get a full eleven-hour day I would have to stop and ask them to refresh my hours, and they would reset my clock to another eight hours. Another thing they did was tell me to go to a truck stop and xerox over the time stamp on the BOL with a different time stamp. I knew that was crooked, but I needed the job and I was OTR a month with my son and just couldn't get out of it until I got back to the terminal in Chicago where my car was. Then, as soon as I got my car back I quit and went home. One too many twenty-hour days.

 

Also, I had two strong incentives to keep going. The first was that my truck was literally my home, and second, as a "SAP" driver I knew that Super Ego was one of the few trucking companies that would hire me and I was trying desperately to complete step six in the SAP program.

 

No, it just took a while for it to sink in.