Drivers On E-Logs Fighting Their 14 Hours!!!

mjd4277 · Nov 18, 2018

SixShooterTransport said: ↑

Also, @mjd4277 can you please point to where in the news story the HOS or ELDs are mentioned? I read it twice and I can’t seem to find it anywhere. Is there a survey available showing how many of the sleeping drivers are on paper logs vs how many are on electronic?

I’ve heard that technology is getting pretty advanced, but I wasn’t aware that your truck could slam on the brakes, flip you back into the bunk, lock you in there, and pump sleeping gas into the truck until your 10 hour break was up. That must not have been an option on my 2017 Cascadia with an ELD.
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@SixShooterTransport :
It’s called a “joke”or sarcasm-you’re reading into it too much.
Usually the running gag here on the forums is that whenever there’s an accident or other circumstance the popular response phrase is a driver who was running his 14 hour clock out.
OTOH, given that it took Arkansas DOT HOURS to traffic moving again because of the accidents along I-40, I wouldn’t be surprised if some of those drivers ran their clock out waiting for traffic to get moving again. All the trip planning in the world can go out the window if the highway is shut down due to a major accident.

SteerTire · Nov 18, 2018

x1Heavy said: ↑

Last night approx 8PM I learned that Arkansas NWS Noaa has issued from the Little Rock Office a StateWide Black Ice warning. Which pretty much fell on deaf ears. You cannot tell Arkansans what to do in drive or not to drive. You cannot tell them that.

You cannot tell 1000 trucks to stay in memphis or in Hope or Russelville and wait to tomorrow. All of them are going to ROLL ice or no ice be ######.

And so, here we are all night vehicles slid off bridges up and down everywhere even in my area. Whiff right off the bridge they went, fancy 4x4 and all. THUMP knock em down a ego peg. Plus a few dollars in tow.

Eventually I-40 got all effed up like it ALWAYS done for the last 50 years between Lonoke and Memphis. Closed. And so on.

What IS NEW about all this is the truckers going to sleep right there inside the interstate travel lanes, hammer lane etc. Maybe the nice Policeman will spend half of this morning waking them all up. Bunch of sleepy heads.

How stupid must a trucker be to go to sleep in the bunk with the 18 wheeler PHYSICALLY ON THE INTERSTATE.

HOW DUMB. Ims orry they are tired. Im sorry they ran out of coffee Im sorry the ELD says TIME TO SLEEP. NO DRIVING. STOP STOP STOP. DING!

HOW stupid. It's disgusting me to no end as a professional who has BEEN IN PILEUPS. JAMS that last all day and witnessed many things that is part of trucking while sitting still stuck in with 10,000 other new friends going Zero mph. But I did not go to bed inside the stupid interstate hightway, Im not that stupid.

Should I evolve this rant into something else? Are we truly that collectively lost as a Trucking Industry because little boys and girls get a little sleepy and go beddy bye with State Police to wake them up in the morning.

What kind of stupidity is this? Black Ice + Warnings + People sliding off everyone + truckers NOT stopping outside of the ice zone and being safe + sleeping inside a closed I-40 because everyone thinks to keep going until ELD says stop.

= what? A big hot stinking mess. What have we become. Not professonal truckers. The Government has shown to be ineffectual. And the Technology sweetly makes a poison over everything due to a litttle bit of weather.

Should I blame the Dispatcher and Companies for making a enforcement against anyone not moving at a fleet qouta daily of 65 mph average all the time all day all night? Run late, call me. Maybe get fired.

We had paper logs since the 20's until after 9-11 No one slept on interstates like we do now.

Dare I say we are not the truckers we were once? We are children too tired to be truckers and depend on Mr Nice State Policeman to wake me up after I am sleepy inside the hammer lane of the icy interstate.

That makes me want to throw up.
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I’ve seen this too often on 40 between LR and Memphis. But in their defense, I blame it squarely on the Arkansas DOT.

They block ramps, once there is no more parking. Forcing drivers to drive, or park on the shoulder.

What should have happened, they should have closed it before it got stacked like that.

I drive. No way in hell am I parking on shoulder. I may not get above 20-35 mph. But I’m finding a safe place to park.

x1Heavy · Nov 18, 2018

SteerTire said: ↑

I’ve seen this too often on 40 between LR and Memphis. But in their defense, I blame it squarely on the Arkansas DOT.

They block ramps, once there is no more parking. Forcing drivers to drive, or park on the shoulder.

What should have happened, they should have closed it before it got stacked like that.

I drive. No way in hell am I parking on shoulder. I may not get above 20-35 mph. But I’m finding a safe place to park.
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I hear you.

Sometimes I consider the problem that possibly Agencies have tried to punch above their weight. Build a cute rest area for 200 cars and 100 trucks and forget it.

What they should not have done is put a rest area into most towns on up who have a adequate police force and able to keep an eye on everyone.

tucker · Nov 21, 2018

mjd4277 said: ↑

https://cdllife.com/2018/arkansas-dot-blames-40-shutdown-sleeping-truck-drivers/
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Nice thread title.

and this is a great picture

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