Cheating on logs

[QUOTE="Hang - Man";3735859]You would know much better than me 25(2)+2 --but the 30 minute rule is the only "Rule" i can see as a good idea -- it is one way to maybe get the super truckers off their seat and get some circulation flowing again -cause i figure and have heard that's a big problem with the older drivers (lack of circulation in their legs which causes problems --I dunno?
The 34 hour and 2 periods rule but only once a week makes no sense.[/QUOTE]

I seldom bump the 30 minute rule, only occasionally do I get far enough for it to be a factor. Where it really bites is being half an hour or even a few minutes short of getting somewhere to load or unload, and being able to take a break, then. FCFS places where if you had continued you would be at the head of the line instead of several or more back in the line, because of stopping for that break, and the fuel and time used to get going again, the 30 minute rule is hated by many experienced short haul(read regional) drivers.

 

I agree with that assessment, and you do know the system well, better than most, IMO. So meanwhile, we have these people sitting in the road, and driving slowly, and stopping so as to not trip the driveline. I have seen trucks sitting at the fuel island for that half hour break, too. I know because I moved off after fueling and timed them from out of the way. I agree that many of them pick a hard one to get into to inconvenience as few as possible, but I could get into that spot just as well with my regional tractor as they could with their large car.

 

As I understand it, the hard 14 was put in place because of issues with enforcement, they didn't like split breaks, which confused them, and many felt allowed easy falsification, so they reduced them in increments, first with lengthening the break from 8 to 10 hours, and then making only breaks of from 8 hours to less than 10 hours stop the clock.

The idea was to get everyone on a regular schedule, with a regular circadian cycle the desired result for them, even though schedules get changed all of the time in the real world.

Some runs, I can leave at 0300 and make it to the first delivery on time, others, I have to leave by 1000 to be at a more distant first delivery a couple of hours earlier. The 14 doesn't run out on me very often, before I get to the last stop for the day, but it could, more often, though, receivers will quit receiving before I can get there with too many stops planned and too many delays unplanned.