The 30 minute rest break is incredible!

Hell I should switch to a day cab position. Your getting more miles then me. Something is wrong in the world of trucking when day cabs are getting more miles and better pay then long haul OTR drivers. and are home everyday.

 

Don't you have a union meeting that needs organizing?

 

thats exactly why the new HOS are useless!!!!! why should there be a one size fits all regulation. im sorry that you have to stay out 14 days at a time to make paycheck, but i on the otherhand do not. been there done that for too long. im home almost everynight and make almost double what i did running the road.

you say we are all whining, did you ever think maybe we are tired of people making rediculous regulations that have NO experience in this business. maybe because people like you thats not whining enough is the reason they keep making rediculous regulations........

 

Because of the 30 minute break, I'm getting bed sores.

 

Increibly stupid, especially on a 'short day'. A 9hour or 8.5hr day.

 

If I could find a job that got me home every day where I wouldn't be running 16 hours a day I'd do it. I don't live close enough to any place sadly.

 

All their doing is slowing turning all of trucking to be union hours and breaks without the pay and benifits....

 

can you imagine them telling lumpers they were not allowed breaks?

 

How's this for a perspective on it..

They are targeting the companies. I mean how dare they demand and require us to work more than 8 hrs without providing us a break. Just like working in a factory. So they pass a regulation, like OSHA done for the factory workers, requiring the companies to give us a 30 minute break for every 8 hrs of work. On paper (which is all these pencil-heads know), this looks great. Sadly in realville, it doesn't work like they want it to.

No one has had a dispatcher say to them something like, You must drive 11 hrs, or You still have 2 more hours why are you stopping? Could it be that the FMSCA thought ( I know it's a stretch, it's not requirement for them), this would be a way to get these evil companies to stop forcing us to behave like company slaves?

Sadly they can't control the desk-jockies, which probably just frustrates the heck out them. So us drivers end up paying the price for their feeble attempts at doing so.