Why not give us more hours of off duty status?

I agree with you, HOS is so messed up. It used to be 10 hours on duty, 8 off. One of the problems with that system was guys would just run 10 stop 8 over and over and wind up sleeping during the day one day, at night another, it was a problem. They came up with the 14 hour rule and the current system in an attempt to let us maintain a schedule a little more, which it has I guess, but also creates other problems like the one you mentioned.

 

Paper logs FTW

You're right.

Screwed if ya do, screwed if ya don't

 

I hear ya driver, but it's hardly a win in my mind when a guy has to resort to dishonesty just to do his job. It's hardly a win when we have to spend additional time and resources filling out these goofy books when the initial problem was spending too much time doing our jobs anyway.

 

Didn't realize there's a limit to to off duty time. Scratching my head...

 

more off duty means more time truck is off the road. that's what the gooberment wants.

they've already implemented a lunch break and a harder to accomplish 34.

if you want more off duty time. then your too lazy to drive a truck. the rest of us are here to make a living. NOT SIT.

 

I think you're misunderstanding what he meant. He doesn't mean he wants more time not working, he wants more than a 3 hour buffer in the 14. Wanting to be able to utilize more of your 11 without the 14 cutting into it is the opposite of wanting to sit more.

 

You already work 70 hours to make what others make in 40, and you need more?? Work smarter man, not harder.

 

Complain to the shipper, if they can't load a truck in under 3 hours, they need to find something new to do. I know of concerts and such that take down everything and load 14 trucks in under 4 hours.......