I feel like giving up on drivers :(

DO NOT TAKE THIS PERSONAL it is not directed at you but most of the Trucking safety Departments.

The issue is if the company really wants to run drivers legal they can, but they don't because hot running drivers make them more money than it cost them. Safety departments for the most part are people with little or no driving experience, with a crash course in logging, because the department is there to keep the DOT auditors happy.

If you really want a company to run legal you would monitor every truck and every driver and require oversight of all dispatches. But the do not because after all its the driver who shoulders most of the responsibility if they get caught running hot. This needs to shift into writing the HOS Violation tickets to the dispatcher and the company. Then all of a sudden the crap would come to a screeching halt. If a dispatcher was personally responsible legally, They would not dispatch a truck without hours, and they would be cooperative in rescheduling delivery's.

But thats not going to happen... So it will continue to be the same old battle. If you doubt this tell the owner of your company you want to oversee dispatch to stop the problem.

 

By law dispatchers and management are legally responsible .

http://www.landlinemag.com/Archives/2005/Nov05/news/fedup2.htm

 

now i have made a few post as of late about the DOT and my opinion of them. after reading a few post and replys to the same i got to thinking and what i come up with bothers me now i rarely have to admit when im wrong but i like to think when i am i am man enough to amit it.

now the post i have made to say the least were a little unkind to the dot and id like to make it clear that i was not in fact talking about the DOT maybe the fact that im just a little bit bitter got in the way. now i still say that the DOT is not your friend but my comments without realising it were about the ICC , big difference now i did have issues big time about them but that was a long time ago, that was then this is now a big difference, then they were all a bunch of crooks as far as im concearned but all things change now we have the DOT and believe me there is a big difference, today they are for the most part profesional doing a job that they are payed to do and they do it well but as far as i know they do not make up a charge just to strick it to you that was the old way.

now i run old trucks thats all i run and i have been inspected many times by the dot and i can honestly say i have never payed a fine or been put out of service by the dot cant say that about the icc big difference i tend to forget that guess im just to bitter when it comes to them. but that was then this is now.

the DOT is doing a job that there sworn to do by law and if they dont do it by law there in violaion of law and i doubt thatis likely to happen but for the most part they do it right all that ive seen anyway.

as for the log book, its true i dont pay much attention to it why? because most of my freight is heavy haul im limited to daylight driving only, when the sun goes down so do i and i have no desire to run over 10 hours so the log book is easy to keep stright you guys that tend to run as hard as you can run are going to have a problem sooner or later. now that dosent mean i agree with a log book , i think its just another way to get in your pocket but it is the law and the DOT is inforcement they dont make the law blame your great politicians for that.

so the next time you run in to a DOT inspection you might cut him a little slack you will make out a lot better and dont start quoting law to him he went to school and was trained in transportation law and a commercial vehicle is not like a car the laws ar different big time.

now on occasion my attitude really sucks when it comes to cops but it comes from my expeirence from a long time ago not today, things do change and i have to work on remembering that.

best of luck to all of you and the best of the holliday season.---southernpride