Fmcsa releases hours-of-service final rule

I guess it will be even harder to find a parking spot with everyone having to do a restart that includes 2 periods with a 1am to 5am time frame. #### the goverment.

 

What about guys like me hauling oversize? this time of year we can often only drive 8 hours in a day any way,(the days are too short) now we have to stop and take a mandatory 30 minute break so here we have 7.5 hours we can operate.

 

IF NOT FOR OOIDA WE WOULD ALL BE GOVERNED AT 65, ALL BE USING EOBRS, AN SO ON!! AND WE PROBABLY WOULD BE DRIVING BIG ORANGE TRUCKS!!!! GO OOIDA!!!!!! I will always be a member...

 

I had always used the reset, this new thing will screw me...

 

really nothing really changes til 2013 though...so all the safety nazi's and OOIDA have time to put this through the court ringer...plus a change of Admin (hopefully) after next year...guess we'll see

 

I look forward to everyone taking their 30 minute break in the fuel island....

 

Yeah , drivers approaching their 8 hours on duty may not find a place to park for 30 minutes .
That 30 minute deal isn't that bad though . E-logs can't tell when you're loading/unloading or in the sleeper .

 

It won't really change anything for eLoggers. For the most part people don't charge as hard as they say they do. So the 30 minute break is going to a breeze for most everyone. It's going to be the "34" hour reset that messes people up.

So, let the lawsuits begin. In the mean time I know what I'm going to do next week at work.

 

Really ? How about your split sleeper regs ? Hot fuel ? Unpaid detention time ? 100% FSC to the O/O ? OOIDA didn't do very well with those , did they ? Don't give them credit for keeping governors out of trucks . That doesn't happen because several studies showed making trucks drive slower than other traffic increases the risk of accident .

 

Maybe it's time to start a new thread with a Poll, "Does OOIDA suck or not"