Rookie sni driver falls asleep at wheel..frankly lucky to be alive.

You should be thankful the government gives you a 10 hour uninterrupted break and limits your daily drivetime and weekly onduty and drivetime.
Otherwise you’d be complaining about driving 20 hours a day on no sleep.
The HOS aren’t perfect, but they could be a hell of a lot worse.

 

My complaint is simply that the HOS rules are not nearly flexible enough for the nature of this business. When I started driving the first time, way back in the year 2000, the rules were quite a bit different. They've tightened things up and it's worse not better. I have a whole lot of ideas about making it less stringent while still not allowing drivers to be exploited but it seems they have their mind set on keeping it this way or tightening it up even further. The 30 minute break is a waste of time. At least they backed off the restricted 34 reset that was in place last year.

 

Would have never gave a rookie a brand new truck.

 

Ya'll get warm and fuzzy at the opportunity of being a driver trainer. Big Bucks!!!

 

Teams get new equipment. The fact he had a "passenger" further suggests that it was teams.

 

Do they do sleep apnea testing at Schneider? The driver may have been suffering from sleep deprivation and maybe his circadian rhythm was still trying to adjust.

 

Lots of Schneider Commercials today on XM radio during the ball game looking for new drivers as they claim to have industry leading pay. The main selling point of them "Most of our trucks are Automatic Transmissions".......


You can see where I'm going with this.....

 

They still keep sending me stuff in the mail. I just put two of their fliers into the recycling bin at my house. 4 years after they denied me.

 

Amen! The clocks aren’t perfect but it stops the lunatics that go driving 3 days straight with no sleep. I understand some people can do this well but not everyone is built like that and should know their limits but instead they either willingly do it or are coerced by the company.

EDIT: I should say stop is a strong word I know a couple that abide by the HOS but still barely get any sleep.

 

They have sleep machines, lane departure alerts, on gaurd crash mitigation, Elogs, auto trans....enough gizmos to make a astronaut jealous and they still crash on perfectly straight roads. Nasa tried to train monkeys for the Apollo misisions and it didn't work for them either.
Everyone has to learn somewhere, but you would think staying awake on your first day wouldn't be too much to ask.