My experience running 100% legal, if anyone cares.

I understand. Not all companies look at job hopping as a bad thing. My company always said you can't blame a man for wanting to better himself.

 

Consider the area where you live compared to the midwest. There are a large number of truck drivers who have lost their jobs here and cannot find jobs. Some of these are union drivers.

The companies here have been dropping the pay to drivers during the last year.

 

Hell man, spend all that extra time job hunting. Sounds like it's high time to move on.

 

Check the local towing companies too. It can be rough with odd hours but you'll be home every day and you can pull some decent pay. Heavy towing probably requires some experience but light and medium duty is cake.

 

On that note I would have requested permission to move. Once it was denied, I'd have parked the truck in a no parking zone, crawled in the bunk and shut my curtains. When the cops come knocking just don't respond. Make it look like you're not home and when they stick a ticket to the truck with the company's name on it just write in big letters "SCREW YOU" and mail it in.

Actually did get a parking ticket once for running out of hours in a place where I couldn't park legally. Asked the company who pays it since their name was on it and it had nothing to do with me legally. They said it was mine and I said ok. But when your company gets drug through the media over the HOS/safety debate don't blame me--I intended to be very loud in the press about following the hours and safety and blah blah blah. They sucked up the $25 ticket and I never heard another word. Funny that, especially since it was a company noted for charging drivers for everything it could, including major truck parts like tires and starters.

But just my two cents, for all two pennies are worth nowadays.

 

Except for having to deal with all the carnage and aftermath of accident scenes.

 

At some point in this thread I'm thinking that some will start to value the notion to do what's in the better interest of their pocketbook.....just like congressmen and senators do.....

Not that a congressman, doing unethical deeds, bribes for votes, and supporting adding bazzilians to the deficit is remotely on the same plane as a poor truck driver bending some log hours in his favor.

With the right key vote, they can turn a few hundred dollars of their personal jack, into millions of personal jack. Surely, we cant blame a truck driver for trying to turn his $100 day into becoming a $150 day.

Then again, truck drivers are held to a much much higher standard than congresspeople and senators. Huh....

Hey whatever happened to LogsRus? She'd have dug this thread like totaly.

 

Yeah, true. You can avoid looking directly at most things but some are unavoidable. There really aren't that many bad accidents though. Most of the time you're just hauling people's vehicles to repair shops from their driveways. Medium duty is usually just hauling broke down box trucks, ups trucks, maybe picking up an empty trailer that sank into the dirt when they dropped it. I even used mine for bush removal once.