Senate Bill Would Require DOT To Finalize Speed Limiter Mandate

the easiest way to fire yourself with freymiller..
apparently old David had to keep popped on and check because after it hit the YouTube and Don senior saw what was going on with the name and founder of his company he wanted to literally have that truck stop by the fuel card not allowed to move go directly to where the driver was and kick the living crap out of them... old feisty almost 80 year old Don senior doesn't play games...
but I guess apparently David freymiller had to keep them in check and all they did was give him a load directly back to Oklahoma City and fire him terminating his lease immediately.
if you notice this is one of the old Celadon lease purchase losers that did not make it with their fancy Lonestar and it went over at the time the celadon's leasing company Quality companies..

 

they should be good now you're really going to separate the professionals from the New breed DMFs.
most of us old school drivers don't care we started when it was 55 we were there when the run a foreigner program begin we were there when the 14-hour clock began we were there when CSA 2010 began we were there when e logs begin.. we can adapt you clowns won't be able to many of us started when it was 55 mile an hour..
I'm making $0.54 a mile I can't complain I'm happy to too long at 62 miles an hour for that kind of coin nowadays and sleep every night on my elog because when I'm out of hours goodnight folks..
I learned if you want to keep playing the game you got to adapt to the rule changes and we all know that this is not a professional industry anymore it hasn't been a professional industry for years I can't use words here to describe what I think of it... Effen joke is about all that comes to mind right now.
but the nice thing about technology workstar favor Bluetooth can talk to friends have a group conversation going on together rolling down the highway satellite radio all kinds of music from rock pop junk Funk country Blues Soul Jazz World music keep you entertained for hours on end.. comfortable trucks like driving an RV down the road getting paid for it...
but the bottom line is this I don't really care there's times even though my truck can go 71 and 1/2 mile per hour I don't even want to go 65 mile per hour..
more than once when I got tons of time to deliver and I'm not in a hurry I just grabbed the right lane lock my cruise in it 61 put on some good tunage don't even worry about the speed limit half the time you get wound up to the speed limit you got some jerk off cutting in front of you or somebody doing something idiotic and you're slowing down anyway....what's going to be fun to see how many people can adapt to the rules and how many say bye-bye and leave..
that's going to be the fun part you know the feds are assuming control of the industry now let's see who's going to suck it up buttercup or who won't be in compliance and we'll be out of trucking..
hopefully a bunch of these rather foreigners would fail epically if they do that and they could be sent back home where they came from if they haven't applied for citizenship and they're only here on a temporary work visa like old Ukrainian boy up there in New Hampshire killing all those people here for 3 months...

 

Most of the older guys I know or knew hated the 55 limit and would hate a 65 limit, my dad being one of them. It will make nobody safer and is more likely to make the roads an even more dangerous place to be.

 

I am happy that you are happy. But you do not clarify your big coin or miles per coin? Or how time sensitive your loads are example produce?
One thing you have made clear is that you like being ordered around, and do so willingly. No disrespect as I like hearing views from everyone on every post I read. And I respect the thoughts of my elders, yet I do not always agree.

 

produce loads they've been doing that since he like started they're already going along and trucking along repowering loads everywhere you go constantly that's been going on for quite a while now since the ongoing Advent of e logs that's nothing new.
all I want to see our people being trained the right way I'm tired of having to watch out everywhere you go for idiots that shouldn't even be walking on the street!!
but most of us all know if you forced these immigrants and morons and every other Walk of Life for the most part of today allowed to drive an 80000 pound commercial motor vehicle the bottom line is if they have to take a test professionals had to take pass it, speak English, understand basic English as per the fmsc a 395 rules... along with the proper skills test we all know...
you would have a driver shortage like you've never seen.
that and only that is my point.
do I like it no but have I left the industry after almost thirty years again no.. I continue to adapt to the changes and keep playing the game...
I just want to see what happens when everybody's forced to do it it doesn't matter about produce Canada has had a speed limiter since 2009 it's now ten years since they enacted it..
the problem is this think about everything you see in the industry if you've been out here more than 20 yrs if these Craigslist Cowboys untrained clowns six months CSA Wonder boys allowed to be a trainer the blind leading the blind around basically teaching the students what you know which is nothing, if you're observing to the industry and me being a lifetime member of a OOIDA these are the issues we discussed consistently..
we also know once elogs stuck it became a government's industry.
they don't want the professional old school generation anymore they want lemmings that they can control the problem is these said fourth individuals are now the majority... they are no longer the minority..big mega companies like it because they don't have to spend thousands of dollars to train people... why do you think that that very last CDL scam with the Russians and the Florida connection had nobody prosecuted only fines to be paid think long and hard about that...
produce move back in the day at 55 mile an hour no problem it moved back in the day at 45 miles an hour in the 50s and the sixties... if the feds ever decide to really enforce who can get a CDL the reasons how they can get a CDL and get rid of the ones that don't deserve to have it or obtained it illegally then you can slowly begin to turn this industry around until that nothing is going to happen.
I don't make that much coin compared to other people I make enough to where I can support myself and I'm happy and I don't have to kill myself anymore.
jit freight been around way back in the 80s and the 90s too.
when I started most automotive loads in 1990 were pretty much all jit they had to get it there as fast as you could and again these were 55 mile an hour speed limits things got done..
but that was a whole different industry with trained professionals not reckless foreigners people bribing people left and right under the table of pain and CDLs killing people every time you turn around with reckless driving perhaps maybe speed limiters forward facing cameras already have the e-logs could be a possibility to clean up the industry you never know.
it never hurts to be optimistic.
we also know the fact that there's more vehicles on the road than ever before compared to 20 years ago another reason as to why better training is needed and has been needed for a long time truck drivers are supposed to stand above the rest.
but when it's no longer about safety professionalism and courtesy being a white knight and a true professional and acting like it at all times it said it's mdmf in your four-wheeler with more wheels and more weight only separating your moronic driving which is what you had for the last 10 to 15 years it shall continue.

 

The blame can be put in the big carriers hands for buying the ATA and FMCSA. To mold the rules to their advantage. Can I prove this no. But I sure believe it.

 

yep pretty much one of the big causes indeed so.. it's been like that for a long time..but the biggest problem is they don't just only mold the rules to their advantage as I said before what was once the minority have now become the majority..
Goes back to 1981 with deregulation and it hasn't changed ever since.
but unfortunately as they continue to force out the small guys and basically not really care as it is not a professional industry anymore.. while we still have a voices to fight like OOIDA which I am a proud lifetime member of.. Sadly the voice doesn't seem to be heard as much anymore or is it ignored..
as they go about their little agenda as I said when the final fight of e-logs went down and they stuck for over a year that was the turning point unfortunately and it has shaped of what is yet to come.

 

I have given up counting the number of times legislation like this gets introduced, never makes it out of committee. It is all for the benefit of the 2 senators to increase their contributions from the parties who would benefit. They always trot out the parent/grandparent/ sister/ whatever who lost a loved one to this "tragedy" . If it gains any traction(no pun intended) it will because we have become a universally despised industry.

 

only two did the CSA 2010 draft and the elog draft..
the elog is the game changer though..as I mentioned it's no longer a professional Trucking industry where they want trained old school drivers..
the keyword it's no longer about quality it's about quantity.
and as I said it seems like the feds are going to do what they want to do.
much as don't like it it appears to be once E log stuck for one year
we knew

 

Should this ever come to pass, the first group to file for an exemption will be live stock haulers.