HOS comment says truckers typically not using weekly hours allotment

Only because all the waiting time is not classed as on duty and it is wasted time not compensated for.

 

Exactly right. If drivers logged 100% as it is done many would be out of hours in 4 days. The ATA is full of venom for anything that isn't on their agenda which is keeping meat in a truck seat for the longest amount of time possible with the lowest pay possible. In the interest of public safety ATA lobbyists should be banned.

 

118,000 drivers out of 12 million cdl holders over three whole months in the middle of a recession. Oh yeah, that's gonna be an accurate "study." Now what's worse; the slimeballs that come up with this stuff or the idiots who buy into it?

 

keep the hos the way they are, just get rid of the 14 hour rule..

 

Headlines should read "Truckers Not Logging All Hours Worked". We found they are working 100 hours a week and are getting paid for 50.
What do you think drivers are going to do when they are being monitored in a study?

 

The ATA has never been the voice of the Truck Driver!

 

Remember that the trucks are doing it to themselves, the trucks who hide hours are hurting us all, not just themselves.

Mark

 

Curious as to how you figure that?

Just cause a person is smart enough to go to line 1 so not to count on their 70 is hurting everyone?

 

Because his theory is that if everybody logged every hour from the time they started as either line 3 or 4 that it would somehow help us. I have never been able to figure out that way of thinking either.