I lost my job today.

If you ran like that willingly and only resorted to reporting him as retaliation for being fired, YES there is SHAME there.
NOW, if he had started and said WTF when asked to run that way, quit Immediately and decided to report it, I wouldn't see that in as bad of a way myself.
I do things out here I shouldn't from time to time, but ###### if I am gonna blame someone else for the decisions I MAKE regarding the operation of this truck.

 

Your boss would kick your ### if you did!

 

Wow just Wow! This thread is starting to reveal some very ugly facts about trucking. I just read some of the words that so much experienced drivers are having to use to get their viewpoint across, and it speaks volumes.

Shame
Snitch jacket
Revenge
Retaliation

Shuddup and move on seems to be the consensus. I am not judging the posts, I am just so disheartened that the truth is really as ugly as I have feared.

 

The biggest problem I see here is LEGAL and SAFE used in the same sentence.. gimmie a FLOCKING break!
I'm not going to go into any examples as it is well documented here on my take of some of the HOS nonsense.
BUT, this sentence sums it up......
some days 1000 miles feels like 500 and sometimes 200 feels like 1000.

 

I've said all along that legal does not equal safe.

I can run 11 hours starting right now on a fresh 70 and be completely legal doing it.

But I would be very unsafe. I'm wiped out and haven't slept since 0630 this morning.

Other days, I could run an 11-hour shift perfectly safely. But I can't run it legally because I only have 3 hours on my 70 to run.

Weight? If it was so "unsafe" to run over 80K, then how do we explain all those heavy- and super-haulers who run their loads from one coast to the other without so much as a close call? Pure luck? Nope. Experience, training and good sense. Despite permits. Buy all the permits in the country. None of these qualities are issued with those permits.

Safe is the driver's call, right or wrong. Most drivers know when they are safe. There will always be nincumpoops who don't have a clue. Weed one out, two more sprout up in that place.

Legal is a revenue generator. Nothing more. Revenue for states who issue permits, CDLs, licening for trucks and citations. Revenue for insurance companies who get to charge what they want because they have a captive audience. Revenue for repair facilities because certain officers don't know the marker and ABS lights don't work properly when Opti-Idle shuts the truck down.

 

OK...But regardless, There are shady outfits in all aspects of this industry and if you talk to an honest cop (If you can ever find one) they'll tell you that they know who the bad players are in their areas and that they don't really mess with them too much unless they do something outrageous but that they do know that they can pull them in anytime and be guaranteed a citable offence.

They don't give a rats ### about saftey....It's just a money game!

 

This is as easy as mashing a pimple on your ###. Just don't do it.I been with the company I'm with now for 20 years and have always run legal.If you think you have to run a zillion hours to make a good living well that's a bunch of bull squeeze plenty of companies out there where you can make a decent living without breaking laws.

 

so whats your point.LOL

 

Logan76 ,your post has brought on some big name truckers on this post. If you are going to challenge any of these truckers that replied here, your cahonies best be dragging on the ground when you walk.