On your 10 Hour

I usually sleep anywhere from 4-10hours depending on the preceding 24... average 7hrs of sleep.

 

Depends on the load. If I'm booking it to drop and get another load I'll take my ten and then hit the road.

But if I'm stuck with a certain appt time then I usually start and stop at the same time when applicable... Which generally means I'll take longer than ten hours.

I will say this though. Nothing makes the world go by faster than doing the rolling ten, as your always starting up your day at a different time. Toss in the perpetual crossing of time zones and before I know it I'm going "where in the hell did (insert month here) go?!"

As for sleep I average seven hours or so. My deal is napping at a reciever in the morning and then again at a shipper 120 miles down the road. Im always up for a nap, even if I'm not tired lol.

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Mine is spent for 15 minutes. That gives me enough time to pee. Hide my first log, and start the next day on my other log. Lol

I sleep when I sleep and drive when I drive. Depends on loads and appointments. Sometimes I'm in the bunk for 10 and sleep 10, others I'm in the bunk for 7 sleep 3-4, and log 10. I'm on paper, it always looks legal even if it isn't. I do what I have to do I'm used to operating on little sleep. Just one of those things. Sleeper is supposed to be sleeper but a lot of guys shower, eat, etc. While logging sleeper at the end of the night. And then go to sleep to each their own.

 

When im heading cross country i get 7 to 8 hrs of solid sleep. I allways pick one day of the week as my sleep in day. That's when i can stay up late and sleep tell i wake up on my own. It usually works out to about 13 hours sleeper time total. Other then that its eat shower relax and sleep all in your 10 hrs off. Takes a while to get used to it but once you adaptit it becomes easy to get it all in with time for a good book.

 

If you're truly serious about actually running this way, sarcasm is sometimes hard to decipher on these boards, pray nothing bad happens. "Looking" legal at first glance is great but what about if someone decides to do an audit? Hope you've got a big fat wallet and another career back up plan. It will catch up to you if something does happen, even if not your fault. I'll be the first to admit that back in the day I ran like this too, not anymore, it isn't worth it. This is part of the reason the laws have become worse and worse, guys doing "whatever" it takes to get the load in on time which in turn leads to companies not paying what drivers are actually worth because there is always someone willing to "bend" the regs to get it done for slave wages. Until we all as drivers take a stand and refuse to play this game with companies, shippers and receivers, nothing will change for the better, it's only going to get worse.

 

they can audit all they want. my fuel stamp is correct. that's all they're going to see.

and we, the drivers, need to stand up to the gooberment. not the shipper/receiver. the gooberment makes things worse. the gooberment think the human functions according to their laws. the gooberment thinks we need to be babysat becuase they keep pushing drivers off the road, therefore, newbies are constantly filling the voids. it don't matter that the veterans are perfectly capable of doing their jobs without holding the gooberments hands. we need to be held accountable just like the rookies.

stop over regulating us. and there wouldn't be so many rookies.

but i wouldn't necessarily through out the shipper/recever either. they are there own nightmares.

 

Shippers and recievers are now and have always been the reasons for drivers to run they way they do.....the goverment has zero to do with it. All they do is make the laws drivers are supposed to follow.....Answer me this question.....it has been asked since long before I started driving in the '60s and there is still no answer for it. WHEN is the government gonna pass laws pertaining to companies that ship commodities through interstate commerce...limiting them to the same HOS laws that the drivers must adhere to...not a single law on the books governing companies that push trucking companies into "bending/breaking" the HOS laws. Not one ....companies will do their best to get their products delivered "quick" ..the law be ######...Like I said..control the shippers and receivers as much as you do the trucking companies........

 

you put the same rules on the shipper/receiver as the trucks. then you might as well limit your job to banker hours.

and somehow, i really don't think we truckers want to be packed into the property waiting for our turn. spending 36 hours on duty.

shipper/receiver would need bigger property and more hired help.

now, granted i don't pull van. but i've seen walmart dc's get pretty packed as it is.

 

I've had my logs audited nothing was said. My logs at the office are legal and the ones on the road are legal. Its not so much the slave wages. More like moron dispatchters that go out get a college education and think they know everything there is to know about driving a truck and have never been in one.

I don't mind really. Its just something that goes on might as well have my fun and get off on it now while I still can once the black boxes areandated my fun will be over.