DOT initiates 4 Major Rule Changes

When I was a employee 80 or 90 hours in the heat or cold in Northern Ohio, in trucks, wrenching, towing it seamed normal. I'm older and a owner op now. I like the availibility for them crap days. However 90% of the time my lunch pale will only support me 12hrs. Then I head to the house.

 

If your company require you to do this it's up to your company to enforce. I'm an O/O!
My company profile is carrier, period.
Not shipper representative.
Not receiver representative.
Not banking/money transferring clerk between shipper and lumper.
Not FDA inspector to check the crap quality.
Just move freight from point A to point B.

 

It makes too much sense to be able to take a break when the body and mind need it persay a split sleeper birth. A computer nor a broker, or truck owner, or dot can tell the driver when they cab be sleepy, or sick. A option of split sleeper birth can produce a more productive driver, and eliminate fatigue. That 30 minute break is a joke....

 

Trucking sounds like paradise if this passes.
Pull over and take a nap now that we have a 17 hour day.
Pull into the truckstop at 9 pm and back into one of the many empty spots.
Take a 10 or so hour break and mosey down and deliver the next day.

I pictured dispatchers coercing Drivers to deliver on their 16th hour if this passes and then going to the overcrowded truckstop at 10 pm and parking in the fuel lane

 

Then you haven't ridden with my niece. God bless her I love her to death but shes really scary behind the wheel. She won't even drive on the interstate. I rode with her for one block and she drove in someone's yard trying to turn.

By 18 I was well on my way to becoming a private pilot and had been driving for 2 years on the interstate.

 

There's lots of guys that like to nap or take a break at the top of the big grade on 5 when you come into Oregon.

When I went by there last Saturday, there was a few boulders came down on the south bound side, definitely far enough out to smash whomever is sitting there.

I'm thinking the mountain needs to get with the program and realize that those drivers cannot move the truck until their e log says it's ok.

 

You think O/O don't lie?

 

No one is stopping you from stopping now.

 

Some do. flatbedders. car haulers have to show appropriate on duty time to load/ unload.
I'm reefer man. Check in park to the dock and go in sleeper.