New HOS....yep

I choose both. I will have my cake and eat it too.

 

I am a Canadian and it sure is news to me that there is no internet.I guess that I'm typing on my laptop with fairy dust.

 

They're beginning to figure it out: http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-06-14/trucking-recruiters-shift-into-high-gear

 

I will clarify.

My air card is way too expensive to use in Canada. I stay at truck stops, like the Flying J and they charge, so that makes it no internet. The cost is 2.05 per mb or any part of.

The phone is a cost of .70 per minute.

Reverse the scenario, and look what it cost for you to use it down here.

 

$15.48 per MB with AT&T. And .89 per minute.

 

A couple of years ago my my carrier decided they'd do away with company phones and pay drivers $15 a month toward their private phone . I told them I didn't have a private phone and wasn't going to get one for company convenience . Any phone I got wouldn't work in Canada anyway .
Then they said I could keep the company phone and pay half the charges . I declined and said I'd go without a phone . I had no personal use for it . They had me keep the company phone at no cost to me .
When Flying J at London and the T/A and Woodstock went to Wandering WiFi I started using free WIFi at the Fifth Wheel in Dorchester . It had a real strong signal .

 

This thread has popped up on TTR today (or maybe yesterday), check it out. There is a link to the video of the hearing, and it is fairly lengthy, but it is very interesting. Steve Williams is a prominent speaker on this panel, and he does a great job representing not only us Mavericks, but the industry as a whole. http://www.thetruckersreport.com/tr...16867-hours-of-service-hearing-held-week.html

 

which is why I am so concerned about how they manage the "home loads." I am not convinced that they are ready for this challenge, but who knows, they may prove me wrong. But I have been worried about some of your hypothetical situations for some time now. And, if you get home next Friday at say 7pm to go off duty and begin your 34 hour restart, if all goes well and you get home the following Friday at say 5pm and go off duty- HOWEVER- because of the 168 hour stipulation- your next restart that you are about to begin cannot actually start until 7pm. So it actually turned out to be a 36 hour period for a 34 hr restart. Next, if you end up having to leave out really early Sunday as you say because your deliver is still far away, then you won't qualify for having a 34 hour restart even though you were actually off duty for more than 36 hours!!!