Gordon trucking ~ gti

First of all if the drivers are getting log violations that is the drivers fault not the company!! This seems to be a one post wonder who is whining.

 

I do know it wasn't long ago folks were jumping over each-other TO work for Gordon.

 

i know what your talking about

 

I am assuming Beep Beep doen't work here anymore.
I won't comment on the company, but I gotta tell ya, every driver I talk to here is freindly, very rare to you not get a wave by oncoming gti trucks, or the light flash when passing.
Most companies are going paperless logs...I personlly do not agree with it, but it is the way things are going...remember when every1 said they'll never work for a company with Q-comm?
My vote repeal the 14hour rule

 

Yea, you probably work in recruiting Brasspro. Are they paying you to say that? Wish I had your job! Yes, the Drivers are Cool, it's just the company that doesn't wave. Why should they,Drivers are starting to fight back! Truckdrivers out of Washington are now entitled to Overtime,, on March 2nd, 2012 a State Judge ruled that and the case is going to trial. If you work for GTI you should check into it, It's a matter of public record, @ the Pierce County Superior Court.

 

Why? It could be the old way of 10 in 15 hours. That was a big PITA! With only 8 whole hours to sleep, eat, bathe, relax and that was it!

Now you have a whole 10 to do that!

As to getting rid of the 14 what do you propose? 15, 20, 24 or 10?

That's all you need is another bunch of idiots that make rules but don't live in them changing a system that is way better than it was since they came up with the joke called HOS!

Yes, even those get rid of the 34 restart! OH! MAN! reset the hours after taking the weekend off? That's 100% better than having those 2 zeros come and haunt you later! And it took 48 hours not 34 to get rid of them unless you wanted to go ahead and take however many you could work like 1- 10 hours and scrape by in a pig sty truck stop or dirt field because that's where those hours ended until you could get a 10 hour day back!

Yeah many of us old guys didn't want to see the HOS change because we had a hard enough time learning the old rules and some never did! No sheet! I know a few that could drive a truck up a building and parallel park it on the roof! But HOS? Yeah, add 2+2 and get 22!

What do you think should be done with the 14? Do that and you'll get your off duty screwed to make up with that OR take your 11 hours and remove that 1 extra working hour away as CRASH, MADD and TADD wants to do to your working time!

What do you want? Less hours to make money or less hours to rest and get your eating, bathing, feeding, personal daily maintenance done?

I'll gaurantee that the lobbyists will be all over the law makers about killer drivers that get no rest because companies push them to the limits! OR the lawyers that will sue the hello out of you and the company because you went 1 minute over your 14 hour driving limit.

That 14 is whats keeping you from getting bent by that BFI you're driving for!

If you think Cents Per Mile is worth this crapola you're in now being paid 70s and 80s wages when the cost of living has skyrocketed and those bosses get their COLA but you get screwed over HOS and pay?

You're doing better where the HOS are! You can't show me where you'll do any better except for when these tight wad owners come off the "Me the Boss you the peon" wage system!

Look at who goes home after a nice 8 hour day and you work 98* hours a week for what? CRAP! Yeah, ask for a change down to say an 8 hour day like the owners and bosses and dispatchers and see what happens.

Teams.

And I for one do not play well with others when crammed in a closet and do not sleep well with rookies and others driving on bumpy roads. Been there done that.



* The 98 hours is if you put in a full 14 hour day 7 days a week, BUT do not drive your full 11. Yes it can be done! That's a lot of time sitting on a dock or waiting for some dispatcher that couldn't get from his desk to the coffe pot without making a wrong turn much less keep 60 trucks running at their best capacity!

 

10 in 15? when was it like that? I remember a 24hr day and only 8hrs had to be off duty so I would usually have up to 15hrs a day to drive and 1hr of line 4 time depending on the load and when it del. Usually you do pretty good RTO but you get the fail of the day award for saying the HOS is better now.

Under the old system your drive time was not penalized by delays at Shprs and REcvrs. I could drive 8hrs go to a grocery whse for 6hrs
and still be ble to drive to a truck stop or pu another load and log sleeper for 2 hrs and be rolling down the street.

You could run 5 on 5 off which I liked to do when driving in bad weather or 8 on and 8 off which I used to do when running at nite.

Trucks where always coming and going and not frozen for 10hrs strait or sitting because their 14 was done.

All they needed to do was add the restart and I would of been happy under the old system.

When they changed the rules and only gave you 3hrs after going to line 4 before you started loosing drive time everyone at my company got a 3 penny raise because they new are income would drop and it did even with the raise because most of the loads I got assumed you where coming off break even if you only had a few hrs left to drive. So I was finding myself behind trying to catch up because of the inflexabilty in when you could drive . I am sure many drivers are now used to del in the am and getting dp to pu in the pm on a load that needs to run more hrs then you have left or fall behind and then make it up the next day and then be screwed on another pu because you started your 14 at 3am.

I never had to stop short in the old days to make sure I had a 10hr break before del or could find a place to park for 10hrs.

Getting rid of the split sleeper and cramming 11hrs into 14 did nothing to promote safety. Not everyone is the same and the cookie cutter HOS they have now penalizes you if you shut down for weather or experience delays.

And the new one that the unions and the 4wheeler groups want are even worse and will just force more trucks onto the road run by drivers making even less.

 

In 2003 we changed to the 14 hour clock. It used to be 15. You could also split your sleeper birth then. It was 15 hours on, 10 hours drive time and 8 hours off. There was no 34 hour restart either.