Landstar Satellite Tracking Drivers!!!!

What "lies from the government" would those be? People fall asleep at the wheel everyday.

 

The log book can be a major problem.

About a month or so ago, I was running to the west coast. I was running an early day on the third day rotated out. It got me there at 11 in the afternoon and left me 150 miles out and if I had continued I could have delivered. I was not tired, nor sleepy. In fact, I ended staying up until 10 eastern and driving on in. I go to the receiver at 12:30 in the am eastern and had to be there until 11 the next day waiting for them to get in.

 

So that 10 hour break cost you over 24 hours? That's what I'm talking about. You could have had an extra day of pay. So eccentially, that government regulation cost you money and didn't make the roads any safer because you wasn't on them.

That's a fine example of why I don't trust the government to keep the roads safe.

 

I could have delivered and maybe got the reload and then a break. Believe, me I was not tired.

 

I remember one friday night, I was heading home to pick up my kids and spend the weekend with them. All I had to do, was make it to dallas, drop my trailer, and go home. Which was only about 75 miles away.
I was in Pecos Tx where my 11 hours ran out. I got my fuel, pull into the parking lot and sat there for about 15 minutes, catching up my paperwork to turn in. I asked if the scales east bound scales were closed, and a few drivers said they were. I wasn't tired, so I kept rolling. My mistake came when I didn't re-do my logs to get me enough hours to get home.

When I got to Big Springs, I got pulled over for a visor light. The light had a bad harness, and the boss had told me to bring it in, and we'd fix it at the yard.. Well, the cop shut me down for 10 hours.

Here's the funny part. I told the cop that I had plenty of hours left on my 70. And that if he'd let me "catch up" my logs, I could make it home. And that I wasn't sleepy and was safe to drive.

He looked at me and said "How do you know?"

I thought it was a trick question. So I told the cop I'm not sleepy. Which means I'm probably going to sit here for this 10 hours of the shut down. And when the 10 hours is up, I'm probably going to be tired. But I'll be legal to drive right?"....

He said "that's right. You'll be legal to drive"...Hands me the ticket, and says "thank you, have a nice night"

 

You know right from wrong? When you drive past your 11 hrs thats against the law. Right or wrong? Of course its wrong but, your above the law. Right?

 

Ah HECK if they allowed us to drive 24 Hours / 7 Days week most would still whine and complain that they could do more and it is a stupid law.

Back in the DAY ( when everyone thinks it was so great to be a truck driver ) there were countless accidents that were result of drivers falling a sleep , but hardly publized and usually just in the local areas they happened in.

You would see drivers so DEAD tired ( or HYPED up on BENNIES ) they looked like they were drunk wander across the parking lot , climb up into the old COE and hit the road.

 

I think they could solve a lot of this by letting us stop and take a nap if we need to without losing hours. The air force figured that out. That's why there's a bunk on the B2. The pilots can take 4 hour naps and make a 44 hour flight just fine. So why can't we take a 4 hour nap and get 4 hours back? Or some variation of that.

 

True , I use to do it that way , grab a nap when I was tired not like now trying to sleep when you not tired.

 

I listed one or two. Can you not read?