The reasons why 10 hours is/is not enough/too much of a 'break'

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  1. Timin770

    Timin770 Road Train Member

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    pssst hey Big Gov, we are not robots. Forcing drivers to sleep at a different time every day and night is a horrible idea. If a driver is forced to stop and lies there wide awake for 7 hours and then sleeps for 3, that driver is probably not well rested.

    Let the driver drive all day and sleep at night or drive all night and sleep at daybreak and you have safer highways
     
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  3. PandaPancake

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    I've never heard this idea before
     
  4. Timin770

    Timin770 Road Train Member

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    Neither has Big Gov
     
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    Tb0n3 Road Train Member

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    Jesus tapdancing Christ. How hard is it to take personal responsibility and just not take loads that require you to kill yourself to make the deadline?
     
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    I bet if there were no HOS at all and a driver that was dead tired got offered a 500 mile load paying 10 bucks a mile, well, I bet that driver would drive tired.
     
  7. Timin770

    Timin770 Road Train Member

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    Can't the DOT enforce their own rules? We have cameras everywhere.
     
  8. Timin770

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    It's called negotiation, amigo. You simply tell the shipper or broker you can't make the trip in one shot and THEN if they won't push the deadline out, you hang up the phone, We have cameras everywhere except up the tailpipe (and that's probably in the works), The scalemaster knows who you are before you get to yhe scale house,
     
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  9. laaylor

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    Lol!
     
  10. Jazz1

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    We did not have log books until 30 years ago..I would pin up to that load and go for nap:)
     
  11. x1Heavy

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    Growing up everyone closed up at sunset or nearly so. When it's dinner time, the whole town pretty much quits to go eat.

    Those days are gone forever. All of the working stiffs marching to the altar of 24/7 shifts... ugh.

    What would you think if Amazon only had a 8 hour day?
     
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