paper log or electronic logs?

Back of your transmission you have your trucks speed sensor, unplug it and the log will think your truck is not moving.

 

And if you have a smartphone, you can get a speedometer app...

EDIT: I find it a smart idea to run such an app and check my speedometer reading, just in case something went wonky...

 

I have a different idea; How about we institute proper training standards for our professional drivers, remove their exemption from the Fair Labor Standards Act so they would receive minimum wage and overtime pay, then grant them the flexibility and trust to deal with varying weather, traffic, road conditions and customers scheduling requirements?

Oh wait! I forgot, the mega-corporations that are in charge of our government can make more profits if we give a CDL to anyone who can fog a mirror, then try to achieve safety by micro-managing their every behavior.

 

Fixed for accuracy.

And you've met a few of those bad truckers: would you trust them with the keys to your car, much less the keys to a fully-loaded 40-ton ballistic missile? For it is they that have hamstrung everyone else.

Otherwise, I'm right on board with you.

 

Yall are life savers

 

there already is ,it's called sleeping in the truck another ten then driving home

 

That's what you call flexible? Of course that's what we legally are required to do now but it's not flexible as it should be, IMHO.

 

Did it actually work?

 

Do you actually think I will sleep in the truck along the side of the road for 10 hours when I'm a little over an hour from home?

You want me to take a 34 hour reset when I'm 5 hours from home? When taking that 34 on the road will kill my home time for the weekend?

Do you think it's safer and less stressful for me me to sleep at Castaic, then waste fuel and add to the congestion fighting the traffic to La Mirada in the morning, than it is to just drive to my destination at night when there's no traffic and it takes about half as long?

 

Obviously not.


The question is, how do you deal with it? Share, so that we may learn.