How do the stay in business?!?

You know, I was just thinking that too.....

Yes. I think you'll see the megas adopt the same strategy.

 

I think the government regulators see the mileage based pay as the real problem, and they are going to try to create regulations that make the mileage based model an ineffective way to compensate drivers. Problem is, transportation providers calculate shipping costs on a mileage basis.....

 

Yeah, but they put their drivers in a hotel too. The run from Indy to KC was a 10 hour run. The driver would leave Indy, get to KC, stay 8 hours in a hotel, then head back to Indy. Indy to St Louis was all in a days round trip work.

 

Bill - I was under the impression though that the megas would only get more or less spot checked. I can't imagine DOT giving up the resources to check everyone of SNIs logs even for a month.

 

Thats what I thought too Bill but it's happening.

 

Trucks with sleepers eliminate the need for hotel rooms.

You'll see the same kind of planning, in fact already seeing it with the regional fleet model. Difference is the EOBR, no leeway, or flexibility on these trips. In those days there were paper logs and different HOS rules. You could always show it legally on paper, as the paper allows for some variance between what actually happened and what you show on the log. With a paper log you just have to make sure that anything time stamped is logged accurately, like fueling, other things can be adjusted....like what time you stopped for the night....

 

I'm with you Bill. I will need to see more than some forum postings to believe it's happening on a large scale. Not in today's age of youtube. If this was even a semi occurrence, it would have been recorded and posted for all to see.