New rules coming regarding HOURS?

You have the old rule going way back, if you spent 15 minutes off duty, shaving. You are rested.

Now they are trying to say 3 hours off duty = rested? Ha.

Everything else is not released to the public or industry yet. So there is nothing to pick over.

This industry has been horsewhipped since the 30's and people have walked through fire, sometimes for a life time to make it work whatever the mountains of "Rules" or sheaves of "Laws" written on paper in such a manner to not reflect the true reality of trucking.

In short they have managed to take away systematically the ability of a Professional Driver to be a true captain of his or her ship designated to be somewhere in 10 days with a date and time. And rotated everything towards dumbed down tractors with no dials and full of computers meant for enforcement than anything else.

 

Didn’t we just cover this?
Lawmaker introduces common sense hos proposal..

It’s a 17 hour workday instead of a 14 hour workday.
What a victory for all of us??
We may be allowed to start at 5 in the morning and work until 10 at night. Whoopee!!!

 

They could make a regulation for shippers and receivers that eliminates appointment times then drivers won't feel rushed. Then you can put them on elds. Then they won't play around as much. Then you can put a regulation on ooida that stops them from fighting regulations. Going forward, they'll lose every time.

 

Going back to morning unload, evening vender store loading. Used to be you had to be there in the morning with outside inbound deliveries from wherever. Then late in the evening the DC starts to load to stores etc. No appts.

The entire system of appointment times and it's abuses absolutely should be stopped. I stand against it. There is no need to have a load of say potato chips going to 10 stores be there at a designated hour and 10 minutes. It's not THAT important.

Ordinary people cannot get to the doctors on time sometimes across town. And they know better. We truckers are trying to precision be somewhere 3000 miles away in any weather 24/7 without excuses to 10 minutes early. SHEESH.

 

The comments under the article are priceless!

We need to strike and show them!
Give us back our paper logs!
The gov’t needs to leave us alone!
The gov’t needs to enforce detention pay!

And they wonder why we’re not taken seriously.

 

Almost as funny as comments entered into the docket

 

Let's see, a driver strike? Not going to happen. We've put people in power who favor a capitalist society so big corporations have too much power. This industry is majority small fleet and owner operator, but the megas drive the direction of trucking.

Paper logs coming back? 2018 is the year, and technology is reality. No need for another elog soap box.

Government leaving anybody alone? Right .......if it weren't for a couple bad truckers, they wouldn't have the ammuntion to make these regs.

Enforce detention pay? It's a pretty nice dream......

 

One of these days something might indeed happen and 5 million trucks just don't roll for a while out of principle. Then we will see some serious changes really fast. This Nation and it's entire society teeters on weeks at most of supplies of food, fuel etc. All run by trucks. Once that's all gone and no more well.. we are in anarchy.

 

Sounds like a real eventful night you had there driver.

 

No #### lol. Tx is already close to that. 12 & 15 and companies will push you right up on that daily. "Hey, you can be on duty for 15 hours a day, let's make that happen." Yea, because I have absolutely nothing else in my life to deal with, other than driving this truck, right?

 

That won't happen in today's society. Government has become too powerful, corporations are too powerful, most people can't afford to take time off to strike....too many obligations