Why not give us more hours of off duty status?

I thought I was going senile or something.

 

Take a nap while being unloaded and eat shower and everything else on ur ten hours.

 

I pull reefers im always 2 to 3 hours, if not more so i always nap while being unloaded. Then on 10 hour i sleep seven or 8 hours shower and eat. It works for me. If i need to go shopping and under load will plan ahead and get enough usually to weekend where it is slower.

 

I always liked the times I got my 10's at Mt. Vernon, IL, where I could shower AND walk over to the Wal Mart to do my shopping.

 

it want do any good they move on own time. I delivered a load to pactive in temple tx. but I had to shut down there. my DM got me a load to come out of there. the company I work for allow the shipper 4 hours before they start charging detention. I got paid 14hrs of detention at $15hr. I was getting paid to sleep. that week my check was over 1000. but that do suck when you have like 6 hours on drive clock but your 14 say zero. every now and then a shipper/receiver will move faster if you tell them what's up. they don't care because its not them.

 

I can take two days off and get a fresh new 70.... If I take 4 days off I cannot get a fresh 70! Go figure

 

14 hours a day is enough. You can get a lot done in 14 hours. And if you can't, time to fund a new career. Extending the hours will extend the day. No thanks.

 

that's a real smart idea. for company drivers.

 

I miss the freedom and flexibility of the old rules. A driver could choose to take breaks during the day, and it didn't count against anything. I could take a long, relaxing lunch, and then a nap and/or a shower if I felt like it.
And when I got back on the road , I had the same number of hours to drive as when I parked.
Under the old rules a driver still had limitations, but he had FLEXIBILITY in how he used his hours.
Like many other drivers, I would take a break in the evening , which allowed me to avoid rush hour traffic, and then go drive another few hours after traffic died down.
Flexibility enabled me to adjust my schedule to drive at what I considered the best times to drive. To drive when I was most rested and sleep when I wanted to sleep.
I don't like the inflexibility of the current rule.
I wish they would bring back the ability to split the sleeper break that would extend the 14 (without taking 8 in the sleeper). In other words, two breaks of the drivers choosing, like 5 and 5.