New rules

ummm. there are tons of posts on this. and the rules have been around since last year.

they take effect in less then 2 months.

 

Been livin' under a rock, eh?

 

The 30minute break has to be somewhere before the 8hrs are up; like driving 4-5hrs and then a 30min break and then finishing your drive hours.

 

He may have been . That was his 14th post in 2 years .

 

Be careful, it's not eight hrs driving time, it's no more than eight hrs after coming on-duty and then you must take a 30-min break.

 

3 brand new threads on the same thing.............geesh

 

Screw that crap. My 30 minute break comes while driving down the road and passing a town write down the town name a 30 minute break and keep right on hauling ###! FMCSA can kiss my ### I ain't giving up 30 minutes of my day for a stupid ### break I don't need.

 

30 min. break before the 8 hr... no biggie there... when you take a whizz stop and stretch your legs will be 30 minutes... Now that durn reset thingie... that could be a problem... get unloaded @ 6 am and need a reset.. do the math with the 2 segments of 1 am to 5 am included..
and are those segments local time or are they your home terminal ( ie:logbook) time?
Just for instance..I'm on Pacific time & I unload @ 6am Eastern time (3am Pacific)and then do a reset.. that would take what? 50 hours to do a 34 hr reset???

 

You have to fuel. You have to eat. You don't have to do it at the 8 hour mark. Someone can accomplish this task without even trying.

You keep running around with a screw the FMCSA mentality you'll end up a CSA2010 casualty as the newer rules are geared at getting rid of defiant drivers. The rules are part of the job. Learn to accept them and work within them. Life will be so much easier on you.

The only problems I see with this new rule is meat haulers will have to do some adapting. That and the ones that extend their break to 30 minutes on the fuel island. One rounds off their 15 minutes so actually it's a 23 minute break.