Rules , regulations

You can read other posts on this forum and find many storys of drivers caught over weight, out of hours, bad brakes, on and on. When anyone can tell me how this is right I will understand your point of view. CSA2010 will remove the habitual law breakers. I don't like more regulations either but, if a driver/carrier will not follow the law what should be done?

 

Just like the cdl was supposed to remove the bad drivers all it is is a way for them to have more control over us and get more money, as far as overweight i guess you never loaded somewhere were there was'nt a scale and could'nt check your wheight, all you guys that think more regs are good need to wake up and see the light all there doing is trying to control the industry to there likeing and it's working because to many think all this bs is for the better.

 

How will CSA2010 get more money from you? I have loaded before with out a scale. What I don't do is cross a Coop's scale untill I know what it weighs. If you do you get what you got coming to ya. As for trying to control the industry to their liking. They are going to enforce the law and if you can't or won't you will become disqualified or a company will no longer keep you employed due to points. All of you just want to break the laws YOU don't like. What if everyone broke the laws they didn't like?

 

I've never seen any official research, but I'd be willing to bet that a BIG percentage of the shoddy equipment runners and rulebreakers are also the CHEAP freight haulers. My guess, and it is nothing more than that, is that if the CSA2010 eliminates some of them it will help rates. For about a month or 2, and then the stupid companies will start cutting those rates in hopes of getting more business away fro their competitors!

 

Your probably right on the money.

 

The days of "outlaw" trucking are done, finis, poof. If you wish to continue such operations, have at it. You'll be done a whole lot sooner than those who learn to adapt. I don't like a lot of the CSA 2010 rules any better than any one else, but I also understand neither I nor anyone else is going to be able to do anything about it. It's here, so my job is to understand how I fit into this picture from here on in.

Now, IF (biggest two letter word in the world) these rules do what many are predicting, putting anywhere from 200-250,000 drivers out of the business, those of us who are left may have some bargaining power for once. IF we were getting the freight rate I was told was needed to make a profit 25 years ago, the equivalent of the price of a gallon of fuel, I wouldn't mind running perfectly legal. At $3.00/mi. I'd take in about $7,200 a week while spending about $1200 for fuel. I'd run it legal and laugh all the way to the bank.

The big IF depends on people like you southernpride. Shippers have always known that no matter how long they hold us at the dock, or what else gets screwed up that's completely out of our control, we'll lie on our log books and go sleepless to get the freight delivered. I've done it, more than I like to remember. No more. Once shippers and receivers realize they have a financial stake in us running it legal, their practices MAY change. It did for a while after the new HOS rules came to life, until they figured out nothing had really changed, that we still lie our way through no matter what the rules may say.

 

Very well said. My thinking on EOBR's: If CSA2010 won't halt the law breakers that EOBR will.