Truckers - What are your top 5 problems?

4 wheelers says it all.

 

In no particular order

1)Shippers and receivers

2)Drivers on the road. 4 wheels 18 wheels 6 wheels whatever.....

3)Dispatch and pretty much anyone else that rides a desk at your companies

4)Severe overregulation and asinine HOS rules

5) Atrocious conditions in a lot of places where trucks congregate due to a select few scumbags that skew the entire perception of us. That's a whole other problem in itself but not top 5 IMHO.

 

1) HOS rules that penalize you for taking a nap if your tired so they force you to drive on tired or run out of hours "early" because of your nap not being excluded from your base on duty time

2) Not even close to enough approved parking areas for your mandatory 10 hour break.

3) "No trucks in left lane" zones that cause unnecessary (and dangerous) connection in the right 2 lanes.

4) 4 wheelers that A) pass on the right. B) refuse to move from the center lane to the left (when the left is completely clear) so I can move over for on ramp traffic or vehicles stopped on the shoulder.

5) Way to many unnecessary or over restrictive regulations.

 

First off, who, exactly, are "you and your team"?

+1 on post #3

Where I work, they ask us what the most "cumbersome, annoying, and difficult" aspects of our jobs are, so that they can keep making our jobs cumbersome, annoying and difficult.

 

Only 1 here.....the fact that I can't use a phone app to switch insurance on/off.

And then maybe the fact that I can't quickly and easily switch from 1 truck to another without insuring both.

I want a spare truck that just sits....but if you have a MC/DOT you are not allowed to simply have a truck sitting and uninsured. It would have to me moved in and out of the wifes name I guess.....seems lame! Maybe I am misunderstanding....

 

1 my grandmother keeps drinking all my booze
2 my wife won't get a job
3 my brother is back in prison
4 my girlfriend is pregnant
5 my dog has worms

 

I could EASILY be wrong on this but....

Assuming the truck is paid for I don't believe you have to insure it if it is just sitting in the yard. Of course most states require insurance on any vehicle with a current plate so that could be a problem but I'm PRETTY SURE that the FMCSA would not care.

You could contact your insurance company and see if they had a low cost storage policy or something that would allow you to keep the plates current. Then when you need to call on the truck for use a quick call to insurance to activate full coverage.

This is assuming of course that the unit is paid for. If it's financed they (the finance company) are most likely going to want it fully covered.

Just a thought.. (if you want to, and are financially able to, have a spare truck sitting around waiting to be called to duty it might be worth checking into)..

 

Well I would 100% for sure never do this with a truck payment! I don't know how guys even do it.

If I understand correctly, if the truck is in the company name, with a active MC#, then it has to be fully insured....sitting or not.

 

Perhaps they should have a quickline where drivers can scan it and bag it like at Walmart?