Commute times

None of the fmcsa's fargin business how far my commute is ! ( about 10mins)..and if they ever survey me I'm telling them I commute from Seattle to Omaha ...twice a week .

 

I don't think, bear with me here... the Feds have any concept of how easy it is to commute the entire USA to go to work for a trucker. 3000 miles aint nothing at all. Now I'll take a grain of salt and say yea that's a pretty good run and I can use a nap when I get there.

Leave Little rock Bobtail to Jackson, grab a trailer and be in Omaha by morning? easy peasy. Seattle in 3 days after. Depending on the current flow of winter storms...

I almost got caught on the big pass on 90 near the summit when a storm dumped two feet in front of me upgrade I could not believe it, there I was barefoot upgrade a mile to go from nothing to two feet like instantly. I know its probably 50 miles downgrade on the other side to seattle and that bothered me a little bit.

 

Only if you're wearing clothes.

 

Well I was thinking it may be a double commute because I run out first thing in the cold to fire it up. But since the first time is in nothing but tighty whiteys I should be good

 

That’s Heber in Utah? I used to go fishing up there and watch the Heber Creeper go by. Fun times.

 

No, Heber Springs in Arkansas. A small mountain city. Eh, it's not much compared to your Utah I imagine, but between some factories, old titan silos (Each one with a 9 megaton warhead capable of erasing the entire state... back in those days) and farms etc it was a happening place.

If memory serves it also features a 520 foot dam holding back greers ferry lake. And the land around it goes to 1000 or a little more in nothing at all. Straight up.

The key to learning to live well here in this state is the acceptance that everything is not quite square. A little crooked or bent. Maybe the roof does not leak unless its too wet outside in the rain to fix it. he he he.

 

I actually rode that heber creeper a couple of times. Was cool to watch the fishies in the lake.

DINNER.

 

This idea is tied to the deadheading airline crews routinely do. They live in say Nashville and fly up to O'Hare and start work then. Some members of the crew have been up for 10 hours before they report for duty.
If I am not mistaken I am sure there is buried in the rules some verbiage stating that a driver may not go on duty and drive if he is ill, fatigued or otherwise not fit. That should cover it.

 

The study is likely more tied to the Tracy Morgan wreck where some driver was on his 34, went 600 miles away for a booty call, and drove back. He was legal as the 600 miles was in his pov, off duty, but he was up driving for close to 24 hours at the point of the wreck.
And yes there is the fatigued statement in fmcsa. The problem is that's only useful to protect the driver from the company. It does nothing to keep the driver from driving fatigued, as there is no way to test for it.

 

This is why carriers want to program and develop their own "human robots". These "human robots" -

• will have no life outside their job
• will have no family that needs attention
• will follow and obey every directive without question
• that can shift work schedules from day to night and back, easily and without complaint and not require "naps"
• will work for compensation that covers sustenance needs only
• will maintain a healthy lifestyle at all times and never eat fatty and high-sugar foods