Why do truckers surrender civil rights with HOS regs?

If you are licensed to drive, you have the right to drive, you've earned it (it was not given to you), and the inherent right to do with your property (free time) what you wish, otherwise the government when it seizes property (even temporarily) has violated your civil rights under the spirit of the law? HOS of service regulations can only possibly document the occurrence of impaired driving from fatigue?

So why do licensed drivers who work two jobs and create the majority of traffic accidents are truck drivers saddled with these regulations? I think it is because not enough truck drivers talk about it. Look at the numbers, the latest reports are "weighted" numbers that synopsis over 141,000 incidents into less than a 1000? Oh it gets better?

Don't take my word for it?

Federal Register /Vol. 73, No. 224 /Wednesday, November 19, 2008 /Rules and Regulations

They come out and plainly admit that no truck driver who gets 8 hours of sleep every day will need a 34 hour restart. They then go on about glowing reports from truck drivers who thank them for this "great idea (sarcasim)" and then have the audacity to suggest that this policy enhances operational effectiveness of the transportation industry?

By what, throwing a wrench into the system? You mean to tell me that 87% of the truck drivers out there that sit at a truck stop every week would rather do that than take a long load, or get a longer load at the end of the week (about the third one)? Does the public give truck stops money to maintain parking lots too?

How many major carriers require their drivers to stay out for at least two weeks? So are they smoking glue, or is their common sense really justified? Geez, this is like wandering over the skies in a bomber and trying to separate the thousands of tons of flack in the sky (red tape reports)?

Taxes? Never paid excessive fuel taxes, only when someone drained my fuel at night (LOL). A friend of mine suggested putting a bottle of auto trans fluid in the fuel tank. Figured he was setting me up to get nailed at an inpsection point (it would dye the fuel red). Come to find out, B-17 engines were maintained by mechanics pouring the stuff into the engines to clean them?

Civil rights and being civily right?

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By the way the rules are never "final" unless this nation has ceased to have a Congress?

So what address are you going to send your thoughts to?

 

I didn't find the arguments about interstate commerce useful, if anything, restrictions on your ability to drive would constitute interference with interstate commerce?

All I am seeking is removal of the 34 hr restart requirement, and allow drivers to call in sick without fear of being fired and be able to take a 34 hr break if they so choose. I don't see why we are giving everybody in the freight business the time crunch stress and then ask drivers not to see their families for two weeks a year with no scientific bases, but only on the assumption of fear, and if we do, then in the spirit of the law you should get compensation all the way in the logistics chain, from the company with equipment to finance (warranties expire in time) to the "heavy equipment operator" or in layman terms the truck driver.

The comment about the military forcing people to drive is silly, it can't do it, even if someone at the top decided they should. The military can't force people to drive anymore than they can force anyone to show up for work (farmers, lawyers, factory workers, etc.), in theory, the whole country can starve the government by going on strike for months or years.

I saw someone wandering into to fiscal discussion in this thread, and some presidents in the past used temporary Marshall law to correct things? Isn't that the procedure if the civilians screw everything up, the military has to step in? I'll leave that for the experts?

The numbers talked about for justification of these policy regulations are largely composed of incidents that have nothing to do with fatigue. Sleep studies should be conducted on truck drivers, not volunteers that answered some ad in a newspaper by a university somewhere (they have not need to train their bodies to sleep a certain way)?

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