New HOS regulations

You must have a thirty minute break, shown on your log as off duty, within eight hours of driving. You guys make it sound like after two hours you take a break and you are good for the next 12 hours. If you took a thirty minute break in your first two hours you would need one at hour 10 or 10 1/2, however it comes out. Just a bunch of nonsense. Someone thinks they are going to save the world.

 

Actually it's within eight hours of coming on-duty.

 

you must take a 30 min break every consistent 8 hours of driving. I have heard they past a new 34 law stating you must have the hours of 1am to 5am twice within your break this new law is stupid because it can cause you to take up to 50+ hours to reset ur hours legally

 

both are part of the new regs starting soon

 

and its BS all there doing is pissing people and making it impossible for us to run the way we want/need to. it also states that we can only take 1 (34) within a 7 day period and have had weeks where I run into 2 a week because short on freight or how the load planned out after a 34

 

Its not 30 min break after 8 hr driving. One can't drive past 8 hrs combination of lines 3 and 4 without taking a mandatory 30 min break lines 1 and/or 2.

 

You can come on duty and work ten hours but you can't drive the rest of your hours until you take a break. I am glad I don't have electronic logs but they are trying to make those manditory as well.

 

bureaucrats that have hardly even been involved with trucking are the people making these regulations.
let alone ever even driven a truck.

 

The heads of the transportation dept say the new laws will save 19 lives a year. Now don't get me wrong I never want to see someone die but how can you prove that out of a million trucks on the road its going to save that few. Also they say it will create several thousand jobs because of the half hour less we can work. Company's can't find enough drivers now. All we gotta do is keep 90 percent of the trucks off the road for two weeks and we could rule the country. Chew on that. Who really holds the power? We could!

 

I said this just the other day, lol...

The 34hr reset is what annoyse the most. The way I read it is that you must be at your registered home terminal for the 2 periods of time 1a -5a. When I make FL runs I typically visit friends and family for 2-3 days in an off duty status. I'm in the same time zone, I'm in a nice cozy house in a cozy#bed, why should it matter. This should be counted as the reset. How about the guys out there that live OTR and run job to job, yes they have a registered home base but their real home base is the sleeper I'm the truck, 34hrs off duty should be able to be taken anywhere at anytime (adjusted for time zones when necessary is fine).

Speaking of off duty time me and a DOT civilian in NY had a long disagreement over off duty a few weeks ago, of course he won the disagreement but I had that guy using all of his life lines and he musta called no less than 3 other guys o. The phone and had 4 people trying to answer that were on the scene and nobody could really come up with a good enough answer until he called his big boss who gave the easy answer of "NO".... At least I made him work for it!!!