So how is the 30min breaking working out?

Student supertrucker ? Truckstops sell guides for as little as $5 listing truckstops in each state.

 

What trip planning?
Pretty hard to plan when you get in the truck in the morning and dispatch says head south and call me from XXXX and get dispatched anywhere from 1-4 times a day.
I don't know where I'm going half the time while I'm driving,get told to call from different points along the way often before I get a final destination.
See you just don't have any understanding of my job and how it works.

 

You can take a break at a customer, take a break before you call for the next load, or remind your dispatcher. Again, horrible trip planning.

 

Yea but you probably have a basic idea of where you will be heading and know for sure you will be in your own bed tonight no matter how things work out.

 

Sometimes I can sometimes I can't, loading I often have to get it done right away or the chip bunker may overflow on to the ground, nobody's happy when that happens.
Unloading I scale in and get a bar coded ticket, the number on the ticket determines my place in line.
I may have to wait long enough for a break or I may not.
Yes I probably could break before calling in empty sometimes but often I have to get back for another load so product doesn't overflow on the ground.
Either way I don't want to stop for 30 minutes, it's a complete waste of my time and costs me money and home time both of which I have a use for unlike killing time for 30 minutes in the middle of my day.
No one who hasn't done this job can likely understand, you really can't trip plan anything, a trip could be a mile down the road or 150 miles away and a day may be one trip or 4-5 trips.
I really don't need any trip planning, what I need is to have my day be as simple as possible and this stupid rule just makes things more complicated.
I don't need some idiot bureaucrat telling me when and where to take a break, it just makes my day harder to get through.

 

I know I'll be home in my own bed a half hour later than I would have been.
I don't have a clue where I'm going other than South if the say go South and call me from wherever, could be 40 minutes away in Camas or 5 hrs. away in LaPine.

 

Parked on a ramp somewhere near Lake Ms sipping a red bull

 

Milk 'n cookies break no. 1: Part of my 2-hour split at the TA in Terrell TX. Cooked steak for dinner.

Milk 'n cookies break no. 2: I'm at my receiver... they won't open for a couple of hours.

 

Looks like 6 trucms were taking their break on 294 in Chicago today. And you tell me I would be hard to find a spot. Pffft...

 

being a momma.........