Cameras guard drivers from exhausted truckers endangering themselves & everyone else

thats crap,,, just a number you can drive 13 in canada... the 14 hour rule is far more important.

 

its total bull crap. a trucker is a danger after 11 hours? But a 4 wheeler can driver from LA to New York non stop and there is no law stopping them!!!!!!And tired truckers!!!trucker ran harder and where less tired when we had the 5 and 5 split but now a trucker has to push out their day and run as much off their 11 before sleeping again so if they have a bad day oh well. I personal am back on paper logs and run what i need to, to get the job done 1000 mile and 1500 mile nights are normal and if i need a 2 or 3 hour nap i stop and take one and am fine to keep going all these bs laws are, are a money pit for the goverment.but with e log they are losing that so now they are looking at ways to make more money in different ways.

 

You can drive close to 14 hours in a 24 hour day. Driving 11 hours every day you will be in violation of the 70. No fact checking in these news reports just scare tactics.

 

George Orwell would be proud...

 

You're right on that. And how about the RV guys who can push a 40 footer down the road with a big matching trailer just because he has the money,not a day of training and can drive himself into the ditch with exhaustion without ANYBODY but his wife saying different. And the dvd player going. WTF? I ran from south florida to oregon in 4 days it was a bit of a push but like you said a nap here and there your good to go.#### the DOT!

 

So you can run 1000 miles, take a 3 hour nap and your safe to run 1500 more miles at night. Well I could do this on a isolated basis also, but I'm not going to claim it is safe or smart. In fact it is not safe, and cars do not weigh 80,000 lbs. It is still unsafe for them to do this and it is not legal falls into reckless and dangerous behavior, if they get into n accident and there is bodily injury they can and do go to jail for criminal negligence.

My day runs out at 10.5 hours of driving 540 miles, logs at 11.5 hours including loading and unloading, I run this 6 days and I need the 7th day to rest. At times even with 10 off every night I half to watch boredom based fatigue. I start at 1:00 am and run desert. There's noway day in day out I could do this on 3 hours sleep, and neither could any other driver.

The word s not against the truck driver, the drivers are their own worst enemy . I do not care for the new hours of service either though, you should be able to shut down when your tired not forced to run because a nap uses up your hours. You need to be able to stop the 14 our clock for sleeper time.

Cameras do not protect, only document. Our company uses them for corrective actions when driver get too many call ins or tickets. I do not care for them but they seem to cut own on aggressive driving habits

 

Exactly. If I could only change one thing in the existing rule set, it would be this. We should be allowed to stop the clock on a sleeper berth visit.