What was wrong with the reset?

I get 2 resets most weeks, the problem is, I don't even really need the first one, I could, and do run on recaptured hours if by some fluke, I would start running close to my 70 hours in 8 days.


Get them and not take them, I still don't see why there was reason for the change, very few people think about this in terms past a week, but that is the only way it starts making a difference for most, and it isn't that big a difference if everything, including breaks, is by the rules. Simplified, you run 5 days at 14 hours per day, driving and on duty, you can take off the 6th day and the first 10 hours of the 7th, and then start with a fresh 70 available 10 hours into your 7th day. The timing throws that off, you will end up back running the hours you need to run to do the job, or lose the job to someone that will, so in effect, it ends up for most as a day off , and working 6 days a week. While we are at it, someone tell me how driving 11 hours per day is translated to 77 hours a week or 88 hours in 8 days, which is what these opponents of trucking,(safety advocates) , keep trying to tell us we are doing? It can't be done on recaps, and only by the hardest working and best planned drivers using the reset. The 2nd reset in a week won't increase the hours worked, it will decrease them in almost every instance.


Unless you keep doing that, i.e. work 5 days to the max and take a day plus 10 hours off, with unlimited freight and very open scheduling(can't be done by most since most receivers and shippers don't work 24/7/365) you eventually end up taking many hours off because there is nothing to do. Most freight shipped by truck is time sensitive, so making a load fit your schedule is not a way to keep getting that load.

The companies promising weekly home time for OTR are going to have to plan on reducing hours actually worked by individual drivers. One of my friends in that situation is already talking about that.

 

While your point may be true, changing the direction of threads in these other forums towards political discussions is rude and unproductive.