New hours of services... how will it affect you? (LTL drivers)

your not the first person to ask this question. LOL

 

I reset at home every week. I usually get home Friday or Saturday. With the current rules if I get in late for some reason I'll usually have a shorter week the next week. So I might start my reset Saturday one week and Friday the next. I never do more than one a week but sometimes they start less than 168 hours after the previous one started. So the new rules will basically move prevent me from being home weekends a lot of times. My reset will keep progressing to later in the week since I won't be able to do a short week to get back on track.

Looks good on paper in a perfect world.

I'd love to tell one of the pushers who came up with this silly idea that since they went into the office on Saturday for a few hours that their weekend will now be Sunday/Monday until such time as they go in on Sunday and it moves to Monday/Tuesday.

 

Didn't realize this was the LTL forum. I imagine you guys have more consistent schedules.

 

Pretty soon all drivers will be limited to driving 8 hours per day five days a week. There will still be the same results for truck accidents while 4 wheeler car accidents increase without any new rules for them. The real reason for these rules is because the big trucking companies who have monopolized contracts do not want any new competition to be able to take their business. Those corporations started out when there were lax rules and made millions of dollars so now they can prevent others from making money.

 

What r the new rules?

 

FYI... It's not the trucking companies that want you to only work eight hours a day five days a week it's these clowns at P.A.T.T. run by Joan Claybrook. Will stop at nothing until the trucks run eight hours a day 40 hours a week.

She thinks by the running trucks on the schedule that it will pretty much eliminate truck accidents

 

it would defenitly eleminate truck accidents.

it would also raise prices across the board.

truckers are paid by the mile. not by the hour. cut there hours in half. you cut there wages in half. which are already lousy.

 

The one reset a week messes us up more. From my understanding I will only reset every other week. The 6th day is over pretty much. Basically I will run off my recap. The 30 min break within 8 hrs is going to STINK! Just where are we going to park? The new rules are going to cut many ltl linehaul driver's pay. The new rules will require more ltl drivers, but they will make less in my estimation.

 

You really believe this? Especially since it would require more drivers to accomplish the same tawk. Just how would it ELIMINATE truck accidents? 8 hr shifts will prevent drivers from backing into objects, being hit my 4 wheelers, and having weather related accidents?