Where is everyone #5

The absolute worst thing about this industry is that the current regs grades ALLLLLLL of us by the least common denominator. That’s what legislation does. It doesn’t raise the bar, it lowers it.

The HOS is stupid. If I don’t know when to pull over and rest, I should not be driving. You can go to a bar and decide for yourself how many you can have and then make a choice to either Uber or cab or risk a DUI, but you and I cannot decide when we need to rest and when we are rested???

“But Six, back in the day, drivers were pushed...”

Irrelevant. If you Fup and kill someone, you should hang. Regardless of what you drank, or doped on or how many hours you’ve been up.

If you cannot figure it out, you should not be driving. Really simple concept. So why do they do the regs the way they have?

Answer: because all the lily liveried fat effeminate sidewalk sissies would not be able to get a job in a performance based industry. If you had 100 trucks and 99 drivers that could safely run 1000 miles a day and 1 driver who could only muster 500, what would you do? Fire the slacker or limit all trucks to 500 miles per day?

The FMSCA would do everything they could to make the slacker competitive. Why? Because you have to PAY for talent.

Every time some idiot does something idiotic, you have drivers clamoring for more legislation. And then they cry about RATES and money and the cost of living. Haven’t anyone figured out cause and effect?

 

I was in Baltimore at the company office. Was listening to 98 rock and the news guy Lopez came on and said that a plane struck an office building. Before I could get in the car to head home my wife was already picking up the kids from school.

 

Better bring a big stick!!

 

What flavor are we having today?

 

Don’t understand how any driver out here claims there stranded once a company shuts down.

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Am I missing it?

 

They don't have the resources to buy fuel to get home would be my guess.

 

Carolina gold

 

Well, in the case of Arrow, they shut their fuel cards off. Many of them were a long ways from home, and the company wouldn't do anything to even get them back to a yard.

 

One of @TripleSix great life advice posts would come in handy right around now.

Just amazes me guys out here can’t round up a few hundred bucks to safely get there crap home in a rental car.

 

As cheap as they pay, and the type working for them. Most of them dont have a pot to pee in. But yes its your own fault for not having a backup plan.