Why 10, why not 5 or 3 hours?

That is called rythm method for two drivers it's best to do it 5 and 5 based on a 10 hour driving time per person before sleeper berth time is required.

It won't be more than a few days before you two run out of your 70 hours together.

If you are driving three hours. That might get you out of say.. Maryland. And then change drivers again in either PA or VA? Come on... give me a break then change again before Richmond or Philly? See where this logic is going? It's not going anywhere anytime soon. You will reach NYC all burned out after a long day swapping seats and bunk feeding off each other's sweat, odors and tempers.

This is silly. Really.

If I left Maryand as two drivers, I don't expect my spouse to come on duty until 10 (Now 11, bear with me) hours later. That's either Seabrook NH, Indianaoplis IN Knoxville TN or just before Atlanta. So if I left after breakfast with you, by dinner you will still struggle to get past NYC or Norfolk. Come on.

All this changing drivers and logging such includes literally more and more points at which DOT can audit and then violate you.

Now that your first day is over, were as a team expected to be right around either...Miami, Oklahoma, Nebraska, Iowa, Dakots and so on.

Some of us travel the US twice in 5days.

 

According to who?

You ever notice that every one of those "Reality TV" shows, they have some crazy deadline to build a chopper, a car, a house, a bar and business and make it profitable, there's always some crazy deadline where the crew has to work around the clock to get things accomplished? Trucking is the same way, but more like Big Musical Chairs. Because of the HOS, the goal isn't to run freight, it's to hover around truck stops to make sure you can get one of those fat boy parking spots at the Loves when the music stops. And the guys that ran a long day and come into the truckstop at night, you watch them and laugh as they keep circling around.

Years ago, it was different. The 14/10. The goal was to run a thousand miles a day and get home by Friday night with a pocket full of cash.

"But Six, the average driver can't do that safely."

Of course not. Today's driver can't. Back then, the average driver did that every week. And that's exactly why drivers back then made more money. But it's "safer" now, right? According to whom? Sitting drivers in trucks for weeks on end makes for big, fat, BORED drivers. There's no focus. No goal. Dangerous and unhealthy.

If you took the same concept and put it in NASCAR and told everyone that it was for "safety". Cut the speed of the cars to 75 mph and you wouldn't need those banked ovals. You also wouldn't need a professional racer at the wheel. Any moron would do. You could cut the pay. Drivers would be falling asleep behind the wheel, so the number of wrecks wouldn't change. Mandatory breaks for the slackers to be competitive would be placed on all drivers. The Daytona 500 would take 12 hours. At the 11 hour mark, driver would be required to take a 10 hour break.

 

There is no requirement to log time for a pre-trip inspection. There is actually no rule that says that a pre-trip inspection must be performed.

 

You've been on the road too long. Go home. Believe me. What's good for you're body is not good for everyone else's and I assure you that you haven't solved the HOS situation and found the secret to trucking in that philosophy you proposed.

 

Several places but I speak of is from neurological tests from major institutions. One of which I served in the neuroscience lab based off of medical research dating back to the Lauren works.

 

And who were the test subjects? Navy seals? Olympic athletes? Street bums? Depending on who they used, they can make any study read any way they want.

 

I can't read anymore of this thread. My brain hurts.

 

Maybe you should get tested for sleep apnea

 

Right

 

What do the studies say about sleeping during the day, in a moving vehicle?

They're running team and they know what works for them.