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Running illegal

Discussion in 'Trucking Industry Regulations' started by photolurp2, Jul 9, 2009.

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  1. Jul 12, 2009 #31
    550hpW900L

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    you won't make money running legal just ask all the high rollers at Werner with their $200 checks. If you can log it then it ain't illegal.
     
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  3. Jul 12, 2009 #32
    walleye

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    Holly He77,....The Balla is around!!!,..................
     
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  4. Jul 12, 2009 #33
    Ridgerunner665

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    I don't drive for Werner...but I do make money running legal. In fact, I make just as much running legal as I did running illegal.

    2200 - 2700 miles a week, and thats about all I want pulling a flatbed (I'm not trying to kill myself, I just want to pay my bills...vans are a bit different, but they also pay less per mile)

    Like somebody else mentioned though...there are times when a minor "fugde" on the log book is unavoidable. That is a MINOR fudge, as in getting your load tarped and strapped at the shipper that does not allow parking and not having any hours left on the 14...and driving 3-5 miles to the nearest safe (legal) parking spot.
     
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  5. Jul 12, 2009 #34
    photolurp2

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    I guess I would need a hacksaw...The shifter is right smack in the middle of the seats. Maybe I should just go to a truck stop, park near some grass and roll up in my poncho liner, and sleep on the grass. That would probably get some funny looks (As if climbing up onto the top deck of a car hauler, and getting in or out of a SUV doesn't already get some odd looks.)
     
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  7. Jul 12, 2009 #35
    photolurp2

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    You don't really think that I am going to take a trip that takes 12 hours driving, and sit on the side of the road for 10 hours? Hell no I am not. I am going there and back the same day.
     
    photolurp2, Jul 12, 2009
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  8. Jul 12, 2009 #36
    BigTrucks

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    Im out of hours!:biggrin_25524:
     
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  9. Jul 12, 2009 #37
    photolurp2

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    Does anyone else out there "fix" their looseleaf logs at every stop, make sure the DOT man is not around, then tear them up and flush the "wrong" ones down the toilet? I know the FBI goes through the trash of many of the people they are watching. I wonder if "special" garbage trucks pick up the trash at truckstops, then the dot looks for torn out log pages. Perhaps I am paranoid, yes in fact I am, but you cannot be too safe these days.
     
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  10. Jul 12, 2009 #38
    stepnfetchit

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    Yep,you are paranoid. They have better things to do than go thru a truck stops trash.
     
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  11. Jul 12, 2009 #39
    Ridgerunner665

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    You do whatever you want...

    I'm getting my rest and staying healthy...and out of jail.

    I've been there and done that though...3,900 miles in 5 days was once an every week thing for me (from 7am Monday to 5pm Friday = 3 trips to Lansing, MI and back home, 3900 miles), this was my job and I did it for as long as I could before it caught up with me, 10 months.

    How did it catch up with me??? 3 speeding tickets, 2 near misses on HOS violations, and too #### tired to enjoy being home every weekend.

    That is too hard on your health and too risky to me, my family, and yours.
     
    Ridgerunner665, Jul 12, 2009
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  12. Jul 12, 2009 #40
    photolurp2

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    I am not running anywhere near 3900 miles a week. The MOST I would run would be 2200 a week. That may not sound like much, but when you consider that you spend almost half as much time looking for and loading cars as you do driving, that makes a difference. So you are saying that if you had to drive a little over 700 miles, you would not fudge a little? You would need 2 days to drive 700 miles?
     
    photolurp2, Jul 12, 2009
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