My Poly Trucking experience

Not anymore, they do have a great hometime policy,

 

Yeah, I've thought about em
But they have a no dui ever policy so it's off the table for me.
Things must be getting better at Crete, eh?

 

about my only problem here is the short loads one after the other. Plus they get me away from home and then go to shag loads, never near home. And with short loads you have to work all day everyday to get decent miles,
But then this week I've run 2 thousand plus mile loads.
If I leave it'll be to go to a small company and be home more

 

I hear ya
I'm done with big companies
And this time I mean it
Anything over 80 trucks is too big
I sure wish you guys would turn yours up.
Seems like the big red is slower than ever.

 

Hoping the Trump administation will put ELD's on the back burner. He's supposed to be the friend of the working people.

 

ELD's aren't the problem. Too many "working people" doing work they don't get paid for is the problem.

 

ELD's are part of the problem, as are logbooks, as are the HOS. I went through a weigh station in Georgia about 12 years ago and there was a thug standing by the side of the scale and he demanded to see my logbook (my internal Nazi passport) and when I reached for it too slow for his liking he swung my door open, handcuffed my left arm and told me I was under arrest for violating section 395.xxx of the FMSCR. "Show me the section you're talking about!" I shot back at him and he screamed at me to park my truck on the other side of the lot and an hour long shouting match ensued, and I won because I drove away without going to jail or getting any fines. I had the big green book back then and every time he made some claim I asked him to show me what regulation he was referring to....and he couldn't. When he told me he was a Special Agent of the Federal Highway Administration I showed him where if he made that claim that he had to "produce his credentials on demand" and he told me his credentials were on file at the headquarters I showed him that the regulations said he was supposed to "have them on his person". Another one of them told me the US constitution did not apply to me. I've studied every word of section 395, I've written a five page paper about it that passed muster from OOIDA's law firm, they wrote me a letter telling me that they could not see anything wrong with what I said and my basic premise is that the Federal Government does not "require" truck drivers to keep a logbook in the first place and it is an unconstitutional waste of time and the only reason I fill one out is because my employer requires it. Take a look at your logbook: on the cover it will say "prescribed" by the FMCSA and then take a look at your Post Trip report it wil say "required" by the FMCSR Filling out a logbook takes abut a half hour a day, it has never helped me or anyone I
know drive a truck safer nor has following a bunch of complicated obscure rules, the purpose of which is to make people slaves to the Federal Government. If someone does not have the common sense or ability to pull the truck over and take a cat nap when they are sleepy then they should seek employment elsewhere. I worked for the Federal government for ten years, most of them are statists that can not hack it in the private sector and they hate people like us that can.
Danger, if you are a trucker you have much greater value to society than anybody at the FMSCA which is a jobs program, a self perpetuating bureaucracy for people that want to have a six figure income but can never make it happen in the private sector. They get their friends and relatives to work there and the only way to keep the gravy train rolling is to dream up new regulations that keep you enslaved so the next time you have an accident that is the other person's fault it is counting against you and the creeps at the FMCSA will be howling like the dogs they are that they screwed the working stiff once again. Trump got elected. It is time to DRAIN THE SWAMP! I don't want the people of this country to have to spend the rest of their lives scratching their head figuring out what hoop they are going to jump through for some lazy paper pushing government bureaucrat. Keep up the good work. Everybody that hauls freight for a living is doing the country a great service.