Here We Go Again...Goverment And HOS Rules....Never Set In Stone...

We still follow the current HOS rules untill any (if any) change is made. Correct??

 

As far as I am aware, yes. We still follow the current HOS 11D/14OD/10SB.

I'm just scared we're going to get hit with less 'allowed driving time' in two years. We'll make even less money, then.

 

some guys just don't get it

you don't want more hours

you want more money

per mile or hour

 

Do you honestly think that's going to happen anytime soon, though? I'm all for the drive less, paid more ideal. As it stands now though, we'll probably lose an hour of driving and therefore money because companies won't pay us more. Figure this at .36 a mile, 65mph. Thats an additional $23.40 we'd be losing a day x 7 = $163.80 less weekly.

 

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Look at this . http://74.125.155.132/search?q=cach...508.pdf+vtti+11+hour&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us



Look who's pushing for the changes - Public Citizen , The Teamsters , and Senator Frank Lautenberg of NJ who receives major campaign contributions from the Teamster PAC . I wrote to my Representative Brett Guthrie who is on the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee and asked what justification there is to make changes .
Look at this . http://tinyurl.com/yf6s52r

The most dangerous hour is not the 11th hour but the first hour . I told Guthrie Joan Claybrook links to rant about drivers driving consecutive 11 hour days . Using her line of thinking I can prove the 10 hour limit puts the public more at risk . Say a driver's job requires him to drive 55 hours a week . Under the 11 hour rule the job can be done in 5 days . With a 10 hour limit a 6th day is required and the driver drives the most dangerous first hour 20% more every week . I asked Guthrie to run that by Lautenberg and Ray Lahood

 

Lose an hour of driving.... They just gave us that hour of driving in 2003... I'd prefer just to go back to the old rules... They were perfectly fine for how many decades? Then all of a sudden they ain't no good any more.

Just like the government... Gotta #### with it until it is officially broken.

 

SCREW the old HOS! I like being able to do what I need to do during my off duty time instead of everything in a piss ant 8 hour time limit! We go back to that BS and we'll be back under some college educated moron dispatcher who knows more about you and your habits than your mom! Screw that!

Redd: What is it? 34 years old and you've driven 50 (NOT!) or, 50 years old and driven 34" (NOT!) Fix the info so we know what!

 

Amazing! There actually is intelligent life in trucking!!! I thought I was the only one that gets it. Why work harder??? We need to work smarter!!!
The rules are NOT the problem here! It is our employers who are using our needs against us to coerce us to want to be outlaws. Pay per mile MUST BE ABOLISHED! The real problem are the carriers that still reward drivers who break the rules by giving them a bigger paycheck for turning miles illegally!