The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) has pulled the plug on the split-sleeper berth study. The study has been in the works for years, but according to the FMCSA, the study is “no longer needed.”
Ever since the HOS rules changed in 2013, truckers have been required to split their 10 hours of off-duty time so that at least one of the chunks is 8 hours or more. Truckers have complained that the strict rules have forced them onto the road at peak traffic hours, incentivized them to drive when they’re sick and tired, and exacerbated the safe parking shortage.
Announced in January of 2016, the split sleeper study would have allowed a group of 200+ truckers to spend their rest breaks on 5-5, 6-4, or 7-3 splits. Using that data, the FMCSA would have decided whether or not to allow for greater flexibility in all trucker sleep schedules.
According to David Heller, the Vice President of Regulatory Affairs for the Truckload Carriers Association, the TCA has known that the pilot program was going to be nixed since late October. A senior FMCSA official told Heller that the study isn’t needed anymore because the FMCSA is hoping to fast-track changes to the Hours of Service rules.
If the changes the FMCSA is planning on making to the HOS rules would negate the need for the split-sleeper study, it’s possible that the new HOS rules will contain flexibility for sleeper berth time baked in. That would indicate that the FMCSA is very confident with their new HOS rules – and that the industry will be happy with the changes.
“There was simply no need for this study because of the [HOS] ANPRM,” said Heller. “It would have taken a year to gather the data, then it would have to be analyzed and put out for comments.”
Source: overdrive, ccj, thetrucker, truckersreport
I’ve said it from the start and still say it: Do away with the stupid 14 hour running clock and all this other stuff will be academic. Simply go back to letting us use all the waiting time at shippers and consignees as off or sleeper time and when we leave we can pick up where we left off with the driving hours. The 14 hour clock does only one thing… forces us to drive when we really shouldn’t for the sake of making a damn appointment!
except not everyone is a law abiding, rule following princess.
I don’t understand what you mean. Wouldn’t allowing the driver to stop the clock when loading or unloading be a benefit to the driver? I can’t imagine a situation where a driver would abuse that flexibility to the point of doing what they’re forced to do now, other than forgetfulness.
Doesn’t matter, if your on an electronic log, how you going to cheat? I agree, get rid of 14 hour rule, go back like it was only you have the eld so you’ll have to follow the rules.
And how does any ones business thats not yours consern you in anyway sir none thats the problem with this world noone knows how to mind their own business huh princess
Ohhhhh so we have to punish the 999.99 percent who do right for .001 percent who don’t. That is the big problem with society, you will always have those who just seem challenged when it comes to following rules.
Are you honest and would you follow the change in favor of the 14 hour rule??? If not than that is an example of the problem is it not…. be welll
Good post. I loved having split sleeper time. While I was teaming for about 2 years, we utilized our time to the max and made a lot of money.
And solo, I appreciated being able to stop and nap or shower when I wanted to or felt like it. I was going through Chicago at least twice daily and who wants to start driving through there at 4pm?
I don’t want to drive thru or around Chicago @ 4pm
I was assigned a load to Ohio… Through Chicago, but it turned out to be on the toll road…. what a relief……. 3 – 6 Hours to go 10 miles is a drag….
Simplest way to make the roads safer is to place as though regulations on shippers and receivers, as the regulation placed on drivers. Allow drivers to be off-duty while they are in the cab waiting to be un/loaded, and fine shippers and receivers that take longer than 3hrs to un/load. And make every place available for parking overnight.
I don’t do split sleeper unless I want to, not what they ask me to do.
I am certified commercial trainer and I have over 32 years experience, just do it safely and forget all the above.
Stop spending times in the truck stops.
Well said
Just go back to 10/8 and get rid of 14 hr garbage
I hope this happens…..
Even when not officially allowed to do it. I had to do it anyway on a few occasions and risk consequences, just to drive safe and stay clear of heavy city traffic when I could. Like when I found myself 40 miles from a large city one evening at quitting time, needing to be at the far side of the city at 9 AM the following morning. Do I wait the full 10 off and then add myself to morning rush hour for 2 hours with it’s stress and risk? or do I get up at 3 AM, drive 40 minutes in very light traffic and get in another 4 hours rest before a leisurely breakfast and load delivery. I chose the latter as the safer and less stressful option even though it technically broke the rules. They need to change the rules giving the driver more control to adapt to the wide range of driving situations that occur constantly. The HOS rules as they are do not improve safety at all. They just complicate things for drivers. What they might do in benefit for one situation is undone in another. Too much rigidity in the rules kills productivity at times and actually reduces safety in driving.
If I understand the current split it dosen’t help you complete the trip it only stalls your time until traffic, etc resolves to your advantage.
If 14 hours a day is not long enough for you “SUPER(stupid)Truckers”, please do us regular law obiding truckers a FAVOUR and LEAVE the industry! In Canada, our day is 16 hours long, which is even more STUPID!
No one is forcing you to work the full day. To each their own eh?
Darn you didn’t not use A’ Butt in that reply. Time to check I.D’s lol
If you have spent time behind the wheel of a semi and have a safe driving record and do your utmost to follow all regulations you are not “STUPID!” Stop with the insults and understand what is really going on in this so-called free society. Someone always needs to be in control so all these law makers (who have never been behind the wheel) who think safety and create laws to control our wages and time are way out of line. We do not to be controlled by ELDs of any kind to get the job done legally. I have yet to meet a fellow truck driver who would keep on driving when too tired; they would pull over at a rest stop and take a 20 to 60 minute nap, which works wonders…or sleep when having to drive in big traffic areas during rush hour (drive-time) commutes. I know there is always one who screws it up, and that is the main reason we are where we are today? I say we get rid of all electronic logs, the mandatory 30 min break in the 1st 8 hours, and the 14 hour start and stop rule, and allow truck drivers to police our own business and keep all greedy, self- righteous, controlling feds out of our back pockets. The 8 day 70 hour regulations speaks for itself. Marv Donovan
I must be a snow flake, I am so offended that the moderators missed “stupid”…..
Hey “Stupid”!
To legally load, drive, unload and pull an empty trailer to a truck stop between Vancouver and Edmonton takes more than 16 in the summer.
Another example is Edmonton – Winnipeg which takes even longer.
The economy requires that trips between major centres take only one day; that’s the sole reason the Coquihalla (Highway Thru Hell) was built. It’s also the sole reason the speed on the Coq was turned up to 120 two or three years ago. It’s also the reason the scale at Winnipeg doesn’t check logs of eastbound trucks.
I can tell you’re an Eastern Canada trucker. Real truckers drive BC daily.
Adjust your anger and maybe you’ll stop saying “stupid” stuff “Stupid”.
All these puppets driving a truck. Don’t like the 11 hrs the 14 or the 16 ? don’t drive it. Listen to your body. If you need 10 hrs in the bunk then that is you . I only need 5 hrs sleep to function safely and all day.. It is how I am put together.Each of us is different. The problem with the HOS is It does not allow the driver to stop the clock when the driver needs to for safety with out penalty.Every one is different. If things are too bad and hard to do then I suggest you find a different line of work. That is easy to do.
It sounds like many with issues with the trucking industry did not do a very good job of researching the industry before going after the CDL.
I have the feeling drivers are about to start working even longer hours.
Only if they choose to.
Whether you agree or disagree, whether you admit to it or not. Circumstance does not always leave an option to choice!!!
Senator John Breaux did Away with the ICC and started the FMCSA this was a Good Step forward . But since Senator John Breaux has retired it’s been going more and more Crazy. Just a Suggestion take a Group of us 3 Million Mile Safe OTR Drivers And let us decide what’s best for Public Safety and not the Billionare’s….
Just my Opinion
Mark
Mark, I’m betting nobody in that group ever thought about driving a truck. I think they should take a group of experienced drivers to decide. But do you think they’d actually come up with a solution?
Well take off all the log books and put a cap on the miles a driver can drive in a day giving a margin of +- 30 or so miles. There will be less violations and accidents. It’s my opinion.
again why new rules and procedures? That is not the solution to anything
I’ve been tracking for a long time and I like the old way better I like split my time Mana 10-hour rule take away the 14-hour rule and leave it like it was you had 10 hour driving that means you could drive 5 and sleep 5 and drive the rest of your 5 when you need it said I have to drive the whole lamb hours or splitting it like we are now I rather do it the old-fashioned way they coming here and trying to change the damn rules and rules and regulations they not driving that truck like we are cross-country trying to cut the trucks back slow and trucks down and think it still safe it ain’t nothing safe if you just run a regular speed they trying to cut the trucks back and I’ll just go on corrupting and messing up a whole lot traveling time on the interstate some trucks are slower than others and I don’t think that the truck should be cut back no more than 75 or 70 miles per hour they speed limits out here or range between 75 and better but you know it’s it’s not courting to how the students drive it’s cool to have the driver in people driving out here safe to if they going to slow the trucks down to need to cut the cars back to just like to do a big truck they need to go in the cars just as well as as a big truck it ain’t fair for a big truck to be Governor cut back because they think that the trucks cause most accidents out here not necessarily you can run at 35 miles per hour and could be in a pack of accident it doesn’t matter how fast can speed it is out on the interstate people just don’t pay attention or what they doing but I also want to thank that the truck drivers is at fault at all the time and it ain’t the truck drivers it’s the people who’s traveling people texting and driving on out here every day but you don’t see no truck driver texting on their phone we pretty much staying focused and having a headset on iPhone talkin but also staying focused on what we doing out here on the road if it weren’t for the big trucks doing what they doing a lot of people want have what they have today we are thankful and grateful for what we do out here on the road but a lot of people don’t appreciate what we do and when he days when we do decide to go on strike we will shut down and then we’ll see how far it go with the rules and regulation it going way too far with these rules and regulation on big truck companies
Wow that all in one sentence. You need to talk a breath. Let’s see what kind of joke changes they come up with next. Like I’ve said ever since they up with the ELD game plan accidents have increased because everything’s a race.
Huh
Dibrahim, I agree.
Eric, if you’re going to leave a three paragraph comment, PLEASE Use your grammar/spellcheck software.Transmission too garbled to understand!
ABSOLUTELY
I agree with Mark! It should be decided by the one’s that have been/still are there! Providing they are multi-million milers/Safe driving history in a Big Truck.
And go back to stopping the clock when taking a lunch break, or even a snooze break (whatever you do with your lunch break). That would encourage drivers to take a break when the weather is bad and you NEED a break. The way it is now, if you’re ‘behind’ on your schedule and the weather is the problem, you NEVER stop for a break and ‘burn up’ any of the 14 hours.
Agreed. The 14 hour rule is dangerous, inefficient, counter productive, and has contributed to higher costs and longer waiting time for consignees and customers.
Let the drivers go back to stopping the time I don’t drive I could I hold the license but I also came from a family that drove . So let the drivers decide some need 8 hrs sleep and some need two hrs like my dad two hrs then rested when unloading and loading .
Split sleeper rules should never have been taken out. I could understand if they wanted to increase break time but to tell someone they have to stop for so long at one time is just stupid. I loved taking naps during the day or being able to stop and shower as part of my break.
I have no faith in the FMCSA or DOT. I do not believe for one second that the coming changes to the HoS will be good for the drivers. The changes will benefit big business and big trucking companies. I would be ecstatic to be proven wrong however.
Yup…the FMCSA was nothing more than government and industry Collusion to favor the Swift’s & Schneider’s et al with their 3 trailers for each tractor, & 70-90% driver turnover. Why would they change now.? One good reason: the driver shortage they didn’t care about in 2010 is impacting them negatively now.
But cynicism rules with those morons, I agree
MARK. We should vote as a group this is why things are messed up now we are to busy trying to separate one another. Experienced or inexperienced it doesn’t matter. The experienced should be taking the time to explain to the inexperienced it’s not just your career or your future it’s ALL OF OURS. Lets learn from these experienced and greed politicians. They have all this knowledge and experience but look at what we have CRAP ON A STICK AND SEPERATION AMONGSTED THE PEOPLE THIS IS WHY THE THINGS THAT ARE OCCURING TO US NOW IS OCCURRING. WE ARE NOT OPERATING AS ONE. I Love the idea of scrapping the rule I just wish we as professionals could just put our differences to the side find out common goals and let that be our agenda. Instead of this white and black crap they have us doing if we can succeed in war together as a unit how’s much more of an impact we could make in other areas. I’m just saying. That’s 10 yrs of experience speaking. 5 yrs so far owner operating.
Kenneth well said sir👍🏽
Agree
I dont see how split sleep time woks, there are those of us who cant sleep during the day and those of us who need consecutive 8-9or10 hour of sleep to function. There would be alot of drivers falling asleep at the wheel if that was to get Implemented.
Just because you can split sleeper time doesn’t mean its required. It’ll give more flexibility if it’s needed. As mentioned above, if the weather is bad, take a nap.
The 8-2 Sleeper Berth was designed to cater to Mega carriers in order for them to make appointments for multi-stop loads. They have Lobby groups and give big money to politicians to fulfill their needs and put you small carriers and owner operators out of business. You don’t give them any money quit complaining
All of you allow yourselves to be abused and used. You’ve accepted servitude and enslavement in a wild-west occupation of chaotic eat or be eaten capitalism frenzy because most of you are uneducated and have never had it good in a controlled productive work environment. For years you were taught to hurry and push yourselves beyond your physical capabilities to earn or make that buck, most of which came at a price. That price was you gaining weight and incurring stress because you didn’t get enough sleep or needed rest. Others of you pushed until you fell asleep at the wheel and killed innocent motorist if not yourselves. The statistics speak truthfully. This occupation is a panoply of uncontrolled work ethics gone awry with feudalistic dog eat dog production. There’s a reason why there’s high turnover and low retention. Most men come into this occupation, especially OTR irregular route driving and realize there’s no life and there’s a limited reward for dreaming about success. The price is too costly. Get your few years in, save some money and invest in an education or buy into another means to make a living.
You may have noticed that most drivers who stick with it are over about 40… In fact, probably much older. The value of education declines with age, as the earning potential decreases with the amount of time available in which to work and earn, utilizing that education. This is generally true in all areas of investment; potential returns decline, as the available time in which to earn those returns shortens.
Ir’s worth noting that many of us come to the profession from other careers, often with extensive education, training, and skills – for which there simply is no longer sufficient need, to keep us employed in those professions.
Most if us who stick with trucking simply cannot do better, elsewhere, JD. $250k spent on an education (if we had or could lay hands on that kind of money), is better spent on a retirement fund, or on an education for your child, in the hope that they would support you, in turn, in your old age.
You don’t have to tell us that we are slaves. Anyone who works for a wage that does little more than provide basic support for a family, is acutely aware of the requirement to continue working, or suffer the consequences. Slavery can be defined as the requirement to perform some task or tasks, against one’s wishes, under threat of punishment. Unless you truly love your job (and very few working people would choose to keep working if their economic circumstances did not demand that they do so)… if you work for a living, you are probably a slave, under that definition. It’s called “wage slavery”, and the overwhelming majority of the country wears this yoke for the overwhelming majority of their lives.
Thanks for pointing it out. I’m super glad that you are so much smarter than the rest of us, that you have thrown off this yoke of oppression. Good for you.
I heard alot of good comments in the thoughts of others. But, seriously I asked a company who I worked for about the split sleeper as the introduction with the ELD was being performed in great lengths. And, one or two comments above I like to share about. One is the split 8-2, and the using the off duty and sleeper birth while loading and or unloading. I also like the idea of using this split sleeper for showering, shopping and exercising when I can as well as getting groomed, etc. Before, I meet up with the consigned, etc!
Though, I’ve found the 14 hour puts you in a violation outside of your control when loading or reaching a place where they stall the loading or cause problems for the driver’s who they are aware of this stuff and use it for their own ill intended purposes to hinder the driver or cause them to run late to the next stop or pick up location.
How many truckers died this year to save stupid one stupid 4 wheeler?
Nobody mentioned anywhere.
Because that was the main excuse into ELD law.
Driving overtired because of stupid 10 hours straight in sleeper box.
Worst that be in jail .
Been driving since 1972 and never had a problem driving 5and5…allways on time to make my delivery or pick up…never ran tired…it needs to go back to the way it is to be
Just give us the number of hours to work.8-10- what ever. Let us make the decision to stop the clock when WE want to with no penalty. We are the ones driving the truck not some ELD of govt lacky. It seems back in the days of 8 hrs driving we got more done than they do today in 11. We could stop the clock when we stopped the truck.. I don’t expect some of the newbies to understand that, the new math will confuse them I suppose. But we as drivers were healthier, Had fewer accidents and crappier roads to do it on .99 % of the drivers today have no clue what it was like before the interstates were built and completed. We made all the decisions when it came to trucking. Not some idiotic govt agency and electronic device to monitor the less than professional driver. If drivers grew a pair and stuck together we could change this BS. Don’t hold your breath tho.
Amen
THEY KNOW ELDS ARE NOT SAFE MORE DRIVERS ARE BEING KILLED OUT HERE NOW, UNDER A LOT OF PRESSURE WITH THIS THING, A RACE AGAINST THE CLOCK, TRAFFIC AND 4 WHEELERS AND THE DOCK WORKERS. ALL THAT ON OUR SHOULDERS, THE GOVERNMENT LISTEN TO THE MEGA COMPANIES. THEY HURT THE LITTLE MAN AND PUT MORE MONEY IN THE STOCKHOLDERS POCKETS . A DRIVER CAN’T COME OFF THE ROAD AND TELL THEM HOW TO RUN THEIR JOB BUT THEY CAN TELL DRIVERS HOW TO RUN THEIRS. THEY HAVE NO CLUE.
The drivers are under pressure because they don’t know how to say I am parking it . They choose to be.The ELD is not driving the truck. They don’t know how to say enough is enough to the dispatcher or agent or what ever the case may be. They have not been taught to learn by observation.Few have a clue to what is going on around them and their vehicle.
Poor planning has a lot to do with it. For the most part they just sit behind the wheel and say to themselves I am a truck driver, Soon they believe it then the crash or the tow truck..
I am old school trucker. did it for over 50 years. Retired due the the stupid trying to control the industry. I still keep my feet in now and again to help friends out . We old timers used to be able to stop the clock as often as we needed for any reason we wanted. NO issues. We could stop the clock to wait out rush hour traffic. no penalty. Stopped to a sit down meal that lasted 2 hours.We could stop the clock. No problem. Stopped to take a safety nap for 2 hours, stopped the clock.No problem. Sit at the dock for 4 hours.stopped the clock. Took a nap no problem. Only needed a 8 hours sleeper instead of the 10 hrs today.We got the job done. We worked together. We communicated with each other. Trucking was fun back in the day.Sure we worked hard. It came with the job. Not so much now. That ELD is for the non thinking drivers that are becoming the norm now. Example = The driver that put his truck on the NY boardwalk blaming the GPS. Should not drive ANY vehicle. There are far too many situations like this the driver blames the GPS on. A NON thinking driver and many can’t even read a road atlas.There are so many more non thinkers with a CDL sharing the road with every one.These kinds of drivers are giving our industry a bad name and we are being punished by stupid rules brought on by the FMCSA manned by non CDL holders thinking they know how to do our job.Let us think for ourselves.
Right spot on, brother! Too many rules spoil the fun of our work. And too many drivers that don’t read signs spoil the drive. If you can’t read English well enough to drive safely in this country, stay in your home country! Everyday, at least once a day, I shake my head in amazement as another driver does something that causes an issue. If they just read the signs, their day would have gone better. IE: the driver that cuts across lanes of traffic to make the exit that had signs 2-3 miles back. An idiot driving like a 4wheeler.
Is this also applicable in Canada? If so, I’m breaking the law every day. I always use split sleeper. Canadian rules are not identical to USA rules but very similar.
Comes down to how much money companies are losing not safety for drivers they need for us to work longer hrs not run more miles your still gonna have to wait at docks as usual
Has anyone who is making these string of driving rules ever even sat in the cab of a rig? Cripes, everytime we turn around, the rules have been changed. As an old time OTR, (now retired) I pretty much stuck to long hauls. I had my own rules of HOS that I stuck to for many years. My bionic body clock knew what it was time to sleep and when it was time to stare out of the windshield. My day was usually 12 – 14 hours driving, but not a straight 12 – 14 behind the wheel. I always had a 1 1/2 – 2 hr. nap as close to the same time every day; then, a full eight hours in the bunk. Occasionally, things would have the proverbial monkey wrenched thrown into the mix; however, 90% of the time, my drive/sleep routine never changed. The armchair government rule makers have no idea of how the short haulers (600 – 1000 milers) and the long distance haulers need different schedules. I have had to do the tight time schedule pick up and delivery routine on several occasions. I hated it. I cannot see how OTR drivers spend years doing this without going crazy. Their bodies have absolutely no biologic rythme for a sleep schedule. LET THE TRUCKERS SET THE HOS RULES!!
FMCSA and the idiots that do these studies have never been in a damn truck. Get rid of elogs and go back to paper logs. Parking has become a Nightmare since mandatory elog,and shippers and receivers dont give a damn about drivers when it takes forever to load or unload. It’s time that the trucking industry shut down for 3 weeks.
I’m often rushing around. It’s like playing a video game sometimes running lights
Skipping breaks doing what ever I can work the clock race around to end my shift in a certain spot it’s very dangerous having elds. If no elds I could stop for say 3 hours get a shower then drive 20 miles to spend the night!!
Appointments are our worst enemy, JIT’s are the worst of all, shippers and
receivers need to go to scheduling school (Lol!) and lean how logistics and
transportation actually works, how many times have you had a 6 am
appointment only to find out so does everyone else in the parking lot
so in reality it becomes a first come first serve situation especially with
receivers, you bust your ass to get there just to wait in a parking lot with 40
others ain’t that a load of fun, you should be able to take a nap or a break
when YOU feel like it’s needed without the clock ticking so long as you manage
your time correctly what’s the problem? our babysitters at the FMCSA believe your not smart enough or capable of thinking for yourself so control is needed
to dictate your movements to eat, sleep, or to take a crap has to be logged in
one way or another either way the clock keeps ticking there’s a constant feeling
of time slipping away with every little stop or slow down in progression you
all know what I mean, when your scheduled in at a certain time you should be
loaded at that time the shipper or receiver committed to they should of made arrangements to have enough labor to meet their commitment but that’s not
how it works we’ll get to you as soon as we can that’s how it works so there’s
that time thing again raising your blood pressure adding stress to what time
you already don’t have this will never change it will continue to be put on the
driver to bridge that gap the crap we put up with to make a living.
They don’t give a crap about a driver. They use these rules and laws to make money on us. And they ones that make these rules don’t even drive, or ever drove a truck. Everything is always the drivers fault. Try explaining anything to an authority figure. He or she will tell you to tell it to the court. With ticket in your hand.
At least give us a 17 hour work day. If the shippers and receivers are not going to be mandatory 24/7. Why dont you go after the shippers and receivers or trucking companies. Instead of the drivers for once.
Get a thousand truckers in the courthouse to pay court cost. Look at the money we can make… then they put a amen on that.
Yes go back to the way we used to split the logbook and scrap the 34-hour restart and there be no problems
What’s your point exactly?
I’ve thought long and hard (and often) about the 14hr rule, I’ve encountered so many issues with it and there is a new example of the inanity of it each day. The conclusion I’ve come to is that the only rationale there could be for it is to harass the driver. What else does it accomplish?
I forgot; it also pressures you. Oh, and it works to cause you to make bad decisions where you otherwise wouldn’t. Then of course there is also how much it increases the likelihood of an accident. Lastly, it raises your blood pressure. Actually, I could go on…
FMCSA=mafia.
Most of today’s drivers have no clue why there is an ELD. There are a couple of reasons. One to to track you and your movements,.. Another is to record your hours. The reason is simple. First way back in the late 60s and early 70s before many of you were born,carriers were discussing a way to monitor the trucks movements. Mostly it was for the OTR trucks. A device to show the location 24 hrs a day sitting or moving. . Today that is the ELD. Took a few years but we have it today., Combined in one package is the tracking part and the other is the logging part. Nice and tidy for any almost trained LEO to read and understand the very simple math now..This ELD HOS is not new. it has been on the books and has been planned for many years . It is now the norm.Gateway Transportation.Wolverine Express. Consolidated Freightways (CF). Motor Freight Haeckel. These are only few of the many carriers that wanted/ needed this system.. Now a few years later we have it and for the carriers it is working. It really doesn’t matter if we have a 14 hour day or a 8 hour day. When drivers start to do the thinking for themselves will it change. Too many entering the industry know nothing about the industry. Can’t read or understand an atlas, have no ability to think for them selves as to ,I am going to stop and take a sit down meal. Or I am tired I am taking a safety nap. They don’t notice that the road is no longer paved but the GPS says to keep going for 6.3 miles turn left so they do.They are afraid to ignore the ticking clock and punch the button that puts them in the bunk or off duty when they are tired. Can’t think for one moment to stop early today when there is parking because there is 55 minutes left on the ticking ELD clock they think they have to use up.. , leave early the next day and repeat with fewer parking issues. They are deathly afraid of the dispatcher and do not know how to say. I am tired I am going to shut down or the roads are too bad for me I am shutting down. Non thinking drivers. They have that cell phone and they are in their safe place. Don’t say you don’t push due to the ELD. You know you do. You got to go when you see it ticking away the time telling you how many hrs or minutes you have to your violation all the while your praying there is at least one parking spot open when you get there. .. Think for your self. Tired, drowsy? Just park . It is OK. Dispatch can reschedule the load . it’s their job.Just listen to your body. Be safe.
Truly driver you are correct . Constant stress over meeting the eld clock can drive you nuts . Even more so being worried about parking. Driving when tired is never advisable. We have always known if we are tired pull over and get some rest.
Article doesn’t mention facial recognition crossing border to Canada. I edit on duty to off… Company hasn’t said anything about it. During training and while teaming this was the norm
I agree that the HOS sole problem is the 14-hour clock rule. Personally, after 11 hours of driving per day, I am exhausted. The problem is the 14-hour clock not stopping, making us rush, rush, and rush. Shippers/receivers taking their dear sweet time, rush-hour traffic, traffic jams, construction, delays at fuel islands, lack of parking, etc.. if the 14-hour rule would be eliminated, or changed, our jobs would be so much less stressful.