What Changes Are Needed in trucking?

Go flatbed , expedite or tanker and get rid of most of those problems . I've seen a lot of flatbedders wait a long time though .
Shippers and receivers do pay for making a truck wait . It's called detention pay . Drivers for good companies get a percentage of it . Bottom feeder companies get it and keep it all themselves .

 

[I would remove the loop hole that allows a driver to go to line 1 while at a shipper, receiver or in a carriers facility. This should all be line 4 and the driver should be compensated for this time at a rate comparable to his mileage pay.]

How about just compensating the Driver for the time spent at a carriers facility over a pacific period of TIME!

 

ATA and Road Safe America petitioned NHTSA to require all new trucks over 26,000 lbs. gvwr to be governed at 68 m.p.h. . They were beating a dead horse because several studies on governed trucks and split speed limits , including 1 funded by NHTSA all concluded the risk of accident increases when trucks go slower than the flow of traffic .
The studies also showed in cases where "excessive speed "was a factor in an accident 80% of the time the speed was under 65 m.p.h. .
Whose trucks do you see speeding most under 65 m.p.h. in 55 m.p.h. zones and construction zones - the ones owned by carriers that were petitioning for limiters including U.S. Xpress and Schneider . This did not go unnoticed by opponents to the petition who were irritated with USX's CEO Pat Quinn who was harping against speed s ATA chairman . Complaints were made to FMCSA and as a result USX was cited for document falsification and given a poor safety management rating in a December 2006 audit .
Canada passed the speed limiter bill before the results of a study on the effects of speed limiters was released . That study stated tht when highways reach over 75% of capacity speed limiters have a negative effect on safety .
Yesterday I saw an ambulance with lights flashing get stuck behind an elephant race for 2 miles . The ambulance was directly behind the truck in the left lane . The nonsense only ended when the truck in the right lane had to slow for ramp traffic .

 

Go flatbed , expedite or tanker and get rid of most of those problems . I've seen a lot of flatbedders wait a long time though .
Shippers and receivers do pay for making a truck wait . It's called detention pay . Drivers for good companies get a percentage of it . Bottom feeder companies get it and keep it all themselves


The bad part of waiting tho is you run down your hours for your 14, or 11, then the company still wants you to deliver on time, its time to somehow make these shippers and recievers get their head out and get trucks loaded and unloaded on a timely manner, not running a driver out of hours.

 

Every shipper that I work with is told at the time of my arrival....I run legal, If you need this load delivered in a timely manner then you'd better get it loaded in a timely manner!

I won't fudge my logs for you or anyone else....

 

We have shipper that always loads late and the loads always get delivered late . It's always been that way and never any blame put on the driver . With our carrier compliance is the number one priority . Shippers know it as do receivers .

 

As it should be...

 

Some companies will tell a driver that on certain loads it is not acceptable to be late with any load for this reciever or the company might lose the account, so if you dont deliver the load on time your fired. Whats the choice for a driver in that case, when the shipper holds the truck up time wise, and the company wont call the receiver and back off the delivery time?

 

i like the changes mentioned in the 1st post..

 

Run it legal, Document it, Deliver it in the minimum legal amout of time required, Get fired....Get a lawyer!


You can't legally be fired for refusing to break the law...Nobody ever does anything about it so they just keep canning guys for refusing to break the law.