Lawmaker introduces common sense hos proposal..

This can be said of a driver working close to home or home regularly. But if a driver essentially lives in the truck and runs 48/OTR, then things change. For those who'se choice is to sit and make money or sit on a spring mattress in a sardine can, far from home and making no money, then the dynamics change considerably. I want to work all the hours possible because this makes more sense than "sleeping my life away" otherwise.

This is why there needs to be more flexibility or being able to subscribe to different sets of HOS rules that better fit with your style of truck driving.

 

I agree. I am a 6....7 hour a night sleeper tops and I am sorry but what I did 7-8 days ago does not affect me today .The 30 minute break is annoying, I prefere 2 to 3 7 to 10 minute breaks.

The way the hos are as it stands, screws me by hanging me up 20 to 40 miles from the house atleast once a week and that is with me being as efficient as humanly possible.

 

I want to get paid good and set my own hours and work as long as I please what's so hard to understand about that?

 

Apparently you must choose between working few hours and getting paid tremendously well, or working unreal numbers of hours and getting paid in rice and beans. Apparently, there should not exist any sort of compromise or option to have both or either, or be able to alternate. This business/work style sounds like something out of the communist handbook if you ask me. What happened to being an American in the greatest capitalist system the world has ever known, and having the ability to exercise free will?

 

But we want you to stop and get rest at some point too.
That’s why we have the HOS we have.

 

I'll stop when I'm tired not when somebody who's never met me tells me I'm tired.

 

And yet history has proven that is not true. Oh, you might. I dunno about you personally.
Fact is history has shown people will work way beyond their physical capabilities as a whole. And when that happen someone else pays the price, sometime along with the driver, sometimes not.

 

Yea well there is a different way to fix that problem, you have one accident that's your fault that kills someone you're done driving period.

 

Yea, that's really helpful for the person that was killed...
And don't say it's a deterrent. The human mind will always rationalize why it will never happen to me. Again, look at history.

 

Ok if you have an accident that is your fault and somebody is seriously hurt your done driving truck. There is no law stating exactly how many hours you can drive your personal vehicle, I'm not saying there should be either. How about make HOS only state that the company can not force you to drive past being tired, all the company drivers have some sort of Qualcomm or something you tell them you're tired and going to sleep for awhile.