New HOS posted today

Which rule states that? It's simply wrong. The 2/3 doesn't stop the clock no, but it does count for the split.

 

Railroad have been number one enemy of trucking since it began. typical of greedy Union scum
They the reason why trucks cant weight more

 

It stops the clock now.

 

Are these new rules into effect immediately?

 

It doesn't look any big changes so drivers can't cheat to much. The new spilt sleep is ok but not a big help. Driver can't cheat the system unless you sit for 2 or 3 hours. Then you still have park on the other end and take 8 or 7 sleeper. So it get to complex I'd your using it to cheat I think. So most driver and company will probably still be forced in to 10 hour breaks

 

I agree, megas will require 10 hr break no matter what the new rules day.

 

Well it is because back in the 30's, drivers were so abused, a lot of them died driving because of fatigue.

"Don't want to drive 16 hours to make a deadline, screw you, your fired, we will have someone else step up and do it. "

The depression really made a lot of people desperate for work and many died doing jobs to feed their families.

So congress fixed the problem of people being abused by companies by limiting their work and this did actually do something good, death by driving a truck took a nosedive until the war which then people just went crazy moving freight by truck, which was the expansion of trucking.

There were several revisions, the best one was in 1962 which was changed for some stupid reason in 2005 and it has been down hill ever since.