New H.O.S. proposal.

I don’t like this at all. Essentially by adding the 3 hour provision that suspends your 14 hour clock does nothing to stem the root of the problem, shippers and receivers who have no respect for a driver’s time and constantly delay the driver. I have never understood why a receiver can’t sign a bill “subject to inspection” then release the driver. If there’s a shortage or damage, at least in the truckload world, 99.9% of the time the issue is between the shipper and receiver, provided the load was properly sealed and secured upon arrival. Why hold a driver up while a load is sorted/segregated? If there’s a problem the shipper and receiver need to work it out amongst themselves, not hold the driver hostage.

 

Well the I think I like some of this... Wish they would let us split berth any way we wanted as long as both breaks were at least 2 hours or longer, ex. 5 & 5. That said I like the option to do 7 & 3 though, and the fact that neither break counts against the 14 hrs.

Essentially the 30 min break is pretty much the same... Except you can use on duty time to satisfy it. So on the upside, stopping for fuel can go toward that 30 min break.

Seems to me that by adding the option to stop the clock for up to 3 hours as long as the driver takes 10 consecutive off at the end of shift directly conflicts with the option to split berth 3 & 7. One rule says I can take 3 hrs off duty, then later take 7 hrs of sleeper berth to reset my clocks... While the other says I can take 3 hrs off duty, then later I'm REQUIRED to take 10 consecutive hours off duty...

The only difference I see is that one uses sleeper, and the other is off duty. While there is a difference between sleeper and off duty, these 2 rules still seem to conflict in my mind.

 

Good points all, Cattleman.

 

Do you actually think they got drivers input to make these changes?

 

Awesome so now your going to have pencil pushers saying you only need 7 hours in the sleeper then get rolling. I don't even play the game of waking up at a different time everyday any more. You'll probably see alot more weak minded drivers running sleepy because they only got 4 hours of sleep because that 7 hour rule. Not all drivers require a full 10 hours in the sleeper and great for them you run ragged until you sleep when you die all you want. I personally don't play that game any more and I won't spend any less than 10-13 hours in the sleeper. Flatbed taught me the miracle of have a scheduled.

 

I like the proposal for the short haul exception. For me, this should eliminate the need to fill out a log sheet when I go to one of our shippers, which is out of the 100 air mile radius. , And I should be able to stop for a nap and not worry about the 12 hour deadline.

But, are we gonna still have to fill out a log sheet if we go over the 12 hour mark, as we do now?

 

You're now under 14 hours

 

"Break"
"On-duty"
Yeah, somebody doesn't know what a break is.

 

I would think it's targeted more towards the drivers that are in and out of the truck all day. I'm rarely driving for more than 90 minutes without stopping to load and unload