Black Boxes in All Trucks?

it is when you have thousands of trucks. because the guy with one truck cant make it very well running legal. so they go under. which is less competition for the big guys.

 

Don't compete with the big guys... find a niche they can't compete in!

 

thats irrelevant. i was refering to their attitude when voting for eobr's. i haul cars, the only way they can screw with me is when they back b.s. like this.

 

If you're running legal, then it shouldn't be an issue.

 

You arent going to make it very well when you keep agreeing to haul for nothing. Due to deregulation, they have made it far too easy for any moron to own a truck or even get authority and go out there and underbid the competition. So now we all haul for almost no profit and the drivers get screwed all different ways. At least computer logging will put a big dent in how much illegal operating that will be going on and will hopefully run the cutthroats out...

 

we had the same conversation on the other thread, not sure what you wanna prove...but i'll say the same thing here...if youre running legal, your paycheck isnt what mine is i promise you. we could go back and forth all day but im not because i really dont care. I've been dot'd twice this year and passed both because i can hide what i do. there's a million ways to do a job, you do it your way i'll do it mine. at the end of the day, we'll both be paid for the amount of work we do. i can do more work in 18 then i can in 14. no way to argue that. if i gotta be gone all week on the road, i'd rather be running and making good money then jacking off in a truckstop for a ten hour break. I dont need 10 hours of sleep to function, regardless what uncle sam thinks. he can kiss my ###.
the universal argument to this that i always hear is sooner or later, im gonna get caught. ive been caught before. cost of doing business. pay the fine and move on. running legal would probably cut my paycheck by more then 1/2. so if i get put outta business in 10 years for doing it my way, i'd rather move on to something else then work 20 yrs legal for the same money.

 

this is like channel 19

 

I can understand making money, but to risk the lives of innocent law abiding citizens is just plain stupid... I can say this because I've lost 2 relatives and 3 friends to Jack wagons falling asleep at the wheel while they were "making more money" and running illegal. Oh, and in two out of those three accidents, the truck driver lost there lives too. The third is spending 7 years for negligent vehicular manslaughter.
So justify that stupidity to my family, my late friends' family, and the families of the truck drivers that lost their lives.

 

says the guy with no driving experience. and who decides when im too tired to drive? the government?really?
ive never come close to falling asleep while driving. when im tired, i pull over and take a nap. when i decide im done for the night, i pull over and sleep. rarely wake to an alarm. when i do wake 6 or 7 hrs later, i dont sit in a truckstop for the remaining 3 or 4 hours till im legal.

if anyone really cared about safety, they wouldnt have drivers working the goofy schedules they do. i used to be a company driver and had to make 3 or 4 am delivery appts. thats a hell of a lot harder on me then the hours i run now.

but hey, if some guy who hopes to get a cdl someday thinks im an ######## for doing it my way instead of how some bureaucracy has decided, well, by all means, i'll stop.