Driving fast and cutting corners won't make me more money

I believe you are talking about circumstances some have no control over,,,it's called, "the hurrier you go, the behinder you get" syndrome.

 

If you get to your appt early legally, then you are there. You are finished except the unloading, getting ready to plan the next load, fueling, money etc.

Ive had the attitude in my later years that the company is more than welcome to drive the truck if they think they can see the load there faster. It will get there when it gets there and not a minute before.

It has to be a ungoverned truck. The companies across the industry created a problem by herding 61 mph trucks on 70, 75 and 85 mph interstates. No wonder the drivers feel that they must keep rolling regardless of the limit and tickets be ###### at 61 piddling mph. I know I wont.

 

You have no way of knowing what the 99% of speeding trucks are doing. Just because you have appointments doesn’t mean that some of them are trying to get to FCFS customers. Or if they had problems and are behind and are trying to make an existing appointment.

And I’m not excusing bad behavior. I’ve always found it easier to just drive my truck instead of driving everyone else’s. I don’t care if someone drives 10 hours a day instead of 8. I don’t care if someone works 7 days a week and his wife left him. I just stay in my own lane.

 

you assuming everyone is hurrying just to get there just to sit and wait.

 

these days its not as much hurry up and wait as much as hurry up and beat the clock lol

 

Sure you do .... they are speeding.

 

And yet we've had HOS for over 80 years...

 

Stress levels are higher when speeding not to mention detremental financially.

 

Correct. I should’ve said he doesn’t know why they’re choosing to drive like dummies.

 

I am all for cops pulling idiot truckers over and giving them HUGE fines. I was driving home this morning and had a CFI driver doing 85 in the left lane of a four lane trying to get somewhere fast. This is the third driver in the past two weeks who passed me at that speed. The cops caught the last one, he took his time stopping too, so there were two cop cars sitting with him when I went back that way.