New RE-START rule really sucks...

A good safety dept keeps up to date.
The FMCSA has a website with ALL the pertinent details.
This rule change has been talked about in the trucking media for OVER a YEAR.
None of this has been kept a secret.
It's amazing, it's like July 1 hit and there's this great awakening and all of a sudden ALL those drivers living under their favorite rock find out there are some new rules to deal with and they obviously don't even understand the long-standing fundamentals of the old rules.

"Until they can step up to the plate and do our profession they have no business talking any crap."

It's become very obvious in my short time here that anybody with a pulse can turn a steering wheel. Not to mention the sweatpants wearing crowd at the truckstop. These aren't professionals.

 

The small print in the new HOS is cutting ones hours they can work so they can read ever changing lobbyist bought & paid for new regulations manipulating both ones time & economical future. It also equals happy federal regulators.

 

On the QC e-log if you're eligible to take a 34 hour restart, it will automatically record it for you if you get one. If you don't want it to count as one, you can go in and reject it as long as you haven't approved your logs yet. No election is made at the time of the restart. Given how often my company requires us to approve our logs, one could theoretically wait up to 6 days to reject a restart if they calculated they would have been ok on the recap.

 

I am only going by what he told me the unit for his company did.

I do not know anything else about them.

 

That's what I was thinking. I did find this though

Example 8
https://www.fmcsa.dot.gov/documents/hos/logbook.pdf

 

True.

But like I stated, you do not know what the remainder of the week will be, so you have to make a determination at the point of the first one. Otherwise, some egotistical DOT will jump on it and make his own opinion the rule of the day.

 

Obama Care is 900 pages and millions of Lawyers around America cant figure out most of it. The FMCSA code is 5000 pages and truck drivers are supposed to figure it out???

 

I remember when I got my first "little green book" it really was a little green book, well it's still a book,and it's still green, but it's not so little anymore!

Of course if you want to include the "office" version, with all of the interpretations in it, it makes a good step stool for that top shelf.

Eight pages and counting on ONE 34 hr reset rule change, and some on here gave me crap about putting the fleet on EOBR's LOL

 

I never gave you grief, but after this thread, I am certain that there are many that must need them.

 

Yeah RM, I have said it before, I have some guys that simply don't have the best hand writing or spelling skills, but they will put that 79' of truck and trailer that we run, with overhang, any where you want it.

They have never been in a wreck, and have no recorded damage, but will all of their times and date stamps match, and will all of their form and manner be perfect,,,, every time,,,,, no, it won't.

But I'm not going to show them the door because of it, as I told some of the drivers giving me crap about going EOBR, IF they have never sat on the desk end and try and decipher what some people hand in, you simply do not understand the whole situation.

I got burned at the stake for it, but for us, here, and at this time, it WAS the right decision, now they can see why, we haven't even got to the 30 minute break yet.

Stan