The Joy's of govt mandated time management

Naw bro, never confused. Only the confused ones are doing the whining on this thread

 

You're right. You can't see th future. You better learn to make an adjustment on the fly.

 

Plan A is get where I want to when I want to, plan B is get there later, plan C is get there later by a different route.

 

if you wanna work 70-80 hours a week i hope you got a job paying overtime
i used to work like that for otr trip pay before CSA 2010
now i work 40-50 hours and make alot more money

 

The guys that wanted to try and stay local started pulling big doubles and adding axles as a way to make sure they still had work when the state was deregulated. When anyone that wanted to could show up and haul a load intrastate they had to figure out how to keep working. What drove the rates down was people using the loads to fill in between their other loads so typical trucker math says just haul more to make up the money lost on the rate.

What difference would having a log book make if you can’t load or unload because a place is closed? Their business hours would still be your limiting factor in that case. Sometimes cash goes a long ways when it comes to getting someone to stay a few minutes late. That’s bailed me out a few times when I know my next load is 24/7.

 

I had to do that once in Cali.

Most of them close at 2. Apparently the cost of electricity doubles after that.

 

I should be rested....(I guess)

 

Bottom line, Bad trip plan.
Better trip plan, wouldn’t be a problem.

 

Ah yes the typical, "plan your trip better" lame ### excuse for government involvement where there shouldn't be any. In a way I can't wait for there to actually be a serious proposal for all truckers to have to be sleep monitored every night, I'm just going to laugh at all you whining about how it's a violation of your privacy, oh that's right you won't you'll just grin and take it up the ### some more. If hos are such a big safety thing, why does the "personal conveyance" be exist, it's beyond your deemed safe operating hours it doesn't matter if its personal. Why do they lift them or exempt them in natural disasters, there's never a circumstance where cold blooded murder is ok? Make up your minds and stick with it, either it's a hard rule all the time or it isn't really a necessary law.