Aren't regulations a good thing?

Excessive regulations are never good, bare minimum regulations are barely good, I know there's a lot of people who disagree with me on that.
Why is anybody who needs 10 hours a day to sleep and eat driving a truck, that's the real question. I don't know about you but I don't sleep ten hours a day at home unless I'm sick, and there's not a hell of a lot to do at most truckstops for 3 or 4 hours.

 

Agree with you there. Theres alot of times I find myself bright eyed and bushy tailed staring at my elogs waiting on my 10 to reset thinking how ridiculous it is i'm sitting for 2 or 3 hours wasting good sleep when I could be running.

 

They are needed to a point but there are a lot of aspects of the current HOS rules that are just stupid in their inflexibly

For example

Why is a 7:55 minute rest break not good for ANYTHING?

Why are two 15 minute breaks not sufficient to allow you to continue past 8 hours???

Why does the fact I only was able to work 4 hours, 8 days ago determine that I can only work 4 hours today? When bad weather is coming, I’m supposed to sit during great road conditions and wait [until midnight] for the weather and roads to turn to #### before I can roll again?

 

Seems like some would like more regulations. They do have the 100 air mile rule already. Now if you are in a sleeper truck and you running local if they made new rules saying only day cabs you will not like that.

 

The only thing in hos the 100 mile rule changes is no 30 minute break. All other hos must still be followed. For that 30 minute saving one looses 2 hours they can work, if they choose to use that provision.

 

It would almost make sense that instead of a 30 minute all at the same time to be changed to a 120 minute in 11 hours of driving total may be taken adding to the total allowed to drive so no rush is needed, then drivers can avoid rush hours and make the hurry up beat the clock gone.

 

More flexibility would be nice but it is what it is.

The bigger problem is drivers that try to treat HOS the way they do speed limits. You don't always have to do the max.