New Hours Of Service

Wow wait a minute--Milk&Cookies??? well thats a horse of a different color! If that is the case Im all for 2 or 3 mandatory breaks---where do I sign up?

 

The 14 hour clock is unsafe and dangerous putting a time clock on safety is stupid.

 

the subject came up because we were discussing how does an elogger plan his day
he cant plan for a full 11hrs, because he has to take into consideration STUFF HAPPENS

so he plans for 500mi or so a day, but he has to run that part fast, because if he doesnt "time manage" himself into a frenzy at the first 8hrs, all types of things can happen, so after his first 8hrs, he can take a break and hopefully drive another 3hrs and if the first 3 truckstops are full, he can park on a ramp somewhere

 

compare that to the driver who starts at 6am, drives till noon, takes a shower, lunch and a 2hr nap and casually drives the remaining 5 hours without any stress, without some machine screaming you have 1 hr left, you have 30 minutes left, you have 5 min left, YOU ARE IN VIOLATION and he has to stop 100 miles earlier just to make sure that squawkbox doesnt get mad

cool
calm
collective

beats hurriedly and stressed any day

 

My first goal in july when the 30 min break starts as well as the 1 to 5 am restarts take place is to call the truck stops and buy parking spots....lmao can you just see the truck stops when this happens....all the elogers are going to get up at 5 am roll out at 6 am and 8 hours later trying to park....than after doing a mini nascar race in the truckstop parking lot leave pit road and hit the highway to finsh their last few hours and do it all again. heck if anything is see this REST BREAK reducing your 10 hr break time unless you milk your 14 riding around looking for a spot.....

And yes in july you have to have 2 periods between 1 am and 5 am to get your restart.....more government crap and now they want to deball all trucks to 68 I think it was

 

So true


People think we lie on our paper logs to run our butts into the ground to make more and more money. yes true sometimes but most of the time we lie on paper to be able to relax avoid the BS on the roadways and still get where we need to be. I have done the elog and paper and on elog I was more tired and worn out than doing the same thing on paper but lying about the times. less of an 10 hour break but slept so much better and fell so much better

 

Amen to that!!

 

the rule is simple

drive when you are rested, sleep when you are tired

and dont let anyone, not a dispatcher, not a boss, not a shipper, not a receiver, not DOT tell you otherwise

 

Generally, I would agree. But since there are so many nincompoops out here driving trucks, we have brought all of this nonsense on ourselves. If folks would have done more to act safe and not like a bunch of morons, then we might not have so many regulations. Now we have them, so we either learn to find ways to get things done with them or we park and bid trucking a big bye-bye.