Option to Trade bio monitoring for more driving hours?

That would be a GREAT way to get experienced drivers to leave this occupation in droves. I'd race y'all to the door. I don't need any more rules trying to dictate to me what to do and when. If I can't be trusted by myself behind the wheel, take me out of the truck. I'll be done.

 

i never go 8-10 without stopping,but im on paper i can do as i wish

 

Terrible idea. More regulations always causes more bad than good. Doctors save lives on little rest, paremedics and firefighters as well. You think cops get enough rest or those that serve in our military. There are too many factors to add up to regulate each humans' needs.

 

How about a driver working a normal 8 hour work day for $40K a year instead of pushing them to the fine line of exhaustion and controlling them like puppets for the equivalent of minimum wage? We can't have that because the effects on the economy. Control the pay per freight mile equals more money in other people's pockets. Create a shock sensor that zaps the consumer every time they want to buy something. Now stop being greedy! If you want it that bad pay that truck driver for his hard work away from home. Stop forcing him to work long hours just so he can feed his family.

 

I once offered sexual favors for more driving hours. I even told the scalemaster "me love you long time" but no.dice.

 

It's already possible to drive almost 14 hours a day (depending on on-duty not driving time).

And if the sensors show that breaks are being taken and the driver devotes this time to deep relaxation, but it isn't accomplished, then what?

A 5-10 minute break actually means 15-20 minutes or more in decreased driving efficiency. Time is needed to slow the truck down, find a place to park, take 5 minutes out of the truck, and then get back on the road and get up to highway speeds. So any way you look at it, you have lost at least an hour, more likely an hour and a half per 11 hr driving shift.

Just throw something out there in the name of safety and it should fly right? Or how about let's do it for the children, that usually works also.
The small sensor? You are suggesting something similar to an actigraph, but why not make this as thorough as the Essex study commissioned by the DOT. We could use a Polysomnography during sleep (Only 22 wires hooked to you), an Electroencephalogram (Only 17-21 more wires), Electrooculogram (Sensors at the corners of your eyes), Electromyogram (Sensors on your chin), nasal sensors to verify airflow, respiratory sensors on our chest, an O2 sensor on your finger, PSG (with EEG and EOG only) while driving , infrared ear sensor for temperature and Electrocardiograph probes.

This ignores one of the conclusions of several studies including the aforementioned Essex study, which concluded time of day was a more prominent factor in decreased performance than hours of driving (time-on-task). It also ignores cumulative fatigue across days of driving until your 32 continuous hrs off. It also ignores the study's conclusions that it's the principal sleep period as the larger factor with intermittent rest periods being almost no factor. It also ignores the study's conclusion that breaks and rest periods actually increased their sleep times in their principal sleep periods and that mid-trip breaks failed to show a statistically-significant recovery effect.

That's your opinion which does not appear to be based on anything other than what you believe should be true. It also ignores the aforementioned study's conclusion that "there is no quick fix and no single solution to the fatigue problem", and that the loss of driving time due to short breaks is as minimal as you believe, and that it in fact is beneficial as you believe (Which the study says it isn't).

And I think that when you can get out of the truck, you should do so, but you need to realize that a five minute break actually results in much more lost time/productivity tha five minutes and results in no statistically-significant recovery effect from fatigue.

Safety, a word that encourages some to believe that almost anything should be done to accomplish it.

Best regards

 

Sounds like someone is bored with their life to me. So, now they look at truck drivers/trucking industry and THINK they have all the answers. They are truely clueless...lol. Be safe out there drivers.