Stuck in No Growth Phase

As much as I dislike the e-log it's the HOS that are the problem.If you can't do the BC -Alberta rounds legally with an e-log then you would also have to "fudge"a paper log to do the rounder.If it takes an extra day to do the trip that sucks but all the creative logging that has been done over the years is why we are now being forced to be honest with electronic logging.

 

It used to be no HOS at all. That's back when I started. Then it became 18 hours per day. Then it dropped to 14. We have longer HOS than the States because we have many two lane goat trails, red lights on highways, and our major cities are far apart. It's not like you can take your pick of where to go, north, south, east, or west. It's one way, either east or west. We don't have cities and towns all over the place like America does. Also we don't have a proper highway network like an Interstate. The jerk offs sitting behind desks in Ottawa don't have a clue how long it takes to go from A to B, or how many hassles that delay along the way. Two lane highway? Yeah, get stuck behind an RV for miles and miles. You've lost 15 minutes right there. Flag girl ahead? 5 to 30 minutes. Oh, another RV, 15 more. Chip trains that don't know what 90 is. 4 wheeler twits who don't know how to drive in the mountains. But hey, there's a passing lane 30 miles ahead. So, almost always they'll go slow before the hill, so you time it right, lag back, then hammer it and swing past them into the passing lane. You rip past them. Yay!!! then you start grabbing gears and they dawdle past you. And you're stuck for many more miles. Flat lander truck drivers who are nervous nellies that can't find the go pedal in the mountains. Immigrants that can't decide which side of the line they should be on. My favorite, a truck driver doing 75 for miles and miles, and you finally get a chance to use the passing lane and hammer down, and they get past you in the granny lane because they're real light. Grrrr.... Anyhow, that's life running the mountains in BC. And that's when the weather is good and the road is perfect.....

 

Many shippers in BC won’t load a single driver truck .. I don’t blame them if they can get a team truck for the same or less per mile . Another benefit is they can drag their .... loading and no one complains like a single driver would..

 

Easy answer to all of this. Paid by the hour from pre-trip to post trip for local work (160 km radius) and from pre-trip to end of work shift for long haul, including any resets, also by the hour. And all vacation, overtime and stat holidays paid correctly, and enforced by the federal Labour board ( Employment Standards), with hefty penalties for violations, to include cancellation of NSC #s and removal of registration plates for refusal to comply. A truck without an NSC and a plate won't get too far in Canada. And reclassification of transport drivers as a skilled trade under the NOC system. For starters..

 

Regulation

 

One should also be able to do Calgary to Toronto and back to Calgary without having to reset