Any hope the 34 hour rule will get repealed?

Here is Anne's office address & phone. Let's all call & give the FMCSA our thoughts on the 34 hour rule

1200 New Jersey Avenue SE
Washington, DC 20590
United States
Phone: 800-832-5660

 

Petition sites work, too: www.change.org, www.thepetitionsite.com, https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/, for starters. Also, Twitter is a VERY powerful tool, followed by Facebook.

Of course, an organization that is created by truckers solely to represent truckers, would be a step in the right direction (COUGH*union*COUGH!HACK!GAG!)...

 

far from blind, but the law of unintended consequences will always bite you in the butt, when you call for the government to fix the problem. More regulations will not fix anything.

and it is exactly that attitude of yours, well I am regulated to death, so everyone else should be the restricts freedom and grows government control over everyone and everything.

 

Their evaluation of these petitions are arbitrary; especially if the enacting party isn't toting a 7 figure backend. It's a waste of time. thank you SCOTUS

 

Actually election finance reform has ZERO to do with this problem, it is there to make congress work more efficient which by the way is impossible. It has it roots in the idea of deregulation and other reforms from both parties.

Regulations are not laws, there is a big difference between the two. To change a law, you have to pass another one, to change a regulation - you just change it.

Petition sites DON'T work. The whitehouse.gov one is a joke, it is there to appease the simple minded voter. In order for a petition to work, it has to have more than just public opinion behind it, one reason why I said you have to be a voter and vote. Without the presence of your vote, you have no real voice and as much as many will make it out as a joke, it isn't. Corporations can't put people in office, the voters do and using this "there is big money behind (fill in the blanks) this regulation" it really isn't important because no one can put someone in office except a voter. The reason why the OOIDA has an action political emails is that because they can do so much and then a voter has to step in - a voter who is politically involved by voting.

I will be frank, I have never seen such a fractured and scattered group in any other industry like I see in trucking. It seems everyone has an opinion but no one wants to step up and be part of a change. Ask people to join the OOIDA to support one thing you get criticism about the OOIDA and another sometimes long rant about another trivial problem. The same goes for the issues we face, what is important and what isn't. EOBRs are important but not as important as the DOT physical that is like an airline pilot's physical - meaning too much to prove just to drive a truck. Restoring oversight by congress will help, fighting the FMCSA through some appointment won't.

So my suggestion is simple, knowing how the system works in Washington, we need to speak as several voices on one or a few issues, not many of them ans do it as active voters. We need to get people to vote, to contact their elected officials and to make it personal to tell them how it effects them. We also need to give money (this works only once the other things are done) and make sure that they know where the money comes from.

 

Well seems to me, your attitude is just the type attitude that puts innocent people in prison and lets the guilty go free? I REFUSE to take responsibility for something I have no fault in and you can ask any dispatcher I have ever dealt with and they will tell you the same. A shipper holds me up until I run out of hours, he can pretty much forget about his load getting delivered on time because I will not break the law over his disregard of my available working hours and that's why I back ELOGS so much. You run out of hours, you shut it down and nobody can say a word because a driver finally has some protection from people like that. So go ahead Mr Shipper, waste your time by holding that driver up and explain to your customers why you couldn't get your product delivered on time. The only defense I'll need is sitting right there in that Elog.

 

I realize that D.O.T. has become much more strict on the physicals for a truck driver. However, is it really as strict as that of an airline pilot? The truck driver is not responsible for passengers in mid-air.

God bless every American and their families! God bless the U.S.A.!

 

I just wish we get unlimted hours to drive and get destination quicker.

 

You told it like it was and delivered it quite well for anyone to understand.

God bless every American and their families! God bless the U.S.A.!