Is this new 34hr rule reset every week going to ruin your life

Who says you have to run 5-6? A driver can take all the breaks he wants.

 

A GOOD driver can take all the breaks he "plans" for!

 

Sure he can...but any break you take that isn't 30 consecutive minutes will not satisfy the requirement. So if yhou take 2 ten minute breaks in the first 8 hours, you can't get away with sitting 10 minutes...you still have to sit 30 consecutive minutes....while you 14 clock continues to run. So in order to maximaze productivity you will have to cut out the shorter breaks

 

I don't have to worry about that. My gross income dropped when I stopped hauling lower paying freight and quit going to Tx.
Make more profit but less gross.

 

Unless I'm missing something, I don't see where only being able to do one 34 hr reset a week should affect any one. Unless you have a piss poor load planer or you break down. If you do a 34 hr reset then end up setting another 34 hrs before the week is up you are not going to run out of hrs, that's almost 3 days of setting around.

And unless you are local, it takes six days to use the hrs you actually get paid for. I don't know about you guys, but I use at least 66 of my hrs for driving, and that takes six days, so the rest of the sixth day, all of the seventh, and possibly a little of the eighth. Am I not catching something?

 

Just because you don't get your "34" doesn't mean that your hours for those days off don't come back to you.

IE: You are off 2 days and you can't get a 34 because it is too soon.... You still get those hours back for those two days....

 

That's what I was alluding to, you STILL have your hours available, but I think that some, maybe a lot of driver just got lazy pushing the reset button every time they sat around for anything over a day.

Nothing in the world wrong with that as I can see, and to a degree, it does make keeping your log, and track of your hours easier. Now these same driver will have to go back (in the event of any downtime) and have to start at the beginning of the week tracking hours.

I really do think that some times these guys that come up with this #### just do it to see how much they can #### people up.

 

Money talks . When enough drivers contribute more to political campaigns than the Teamsters or ATA then drivers will have some influence . No , OOIDA contributions aren't even close to being influential .

 

They'd have to pay enough to contribute something.Unless you meant they should contribute to us?

 

Unfortunately Rick, I don't think Congress, or Politicians in general are any better at agreeing on anything than truck drivers are.

I can't believe I am thinking this, but if there is to be a major change, a strike of "some" sort, maybe the best tool available. But it would have to be handled correctly, you would have to get the average Joe to understand and sympathize with what we put up with, which of course would mean getting the media ALL of the facts up front and early.
JMHO