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Amen to that! Working out is self-reinforcing. The more you do, the more you feel like doing it again, because it feels good to feel good.

There really are companies, dispatchers and brokers out there that view drivers not as human beings but as slave labor or cattle; something to be treated like farm animals to be herded and fed in in ways that maximize their productivity and profits to the company; and when used up, sent away and...

You don't have to worry about the broker. He or she will find another fool in short order.

Someone from a big-rig motor carrier once told me they reduced their driver turnover by a huge amount by doing nothing more than seeing to it that their drivers got home for two full days each week. She also told me that they don't need to pay top dollar to get and keep reliable drivers. One of...

It could be done in theory but the demands of the freight generally keep that from happening. The whole idea behind team loads is to keep the truck moving over long distances. To do that, co-drivers drive and sleep in 10-11 hour shifts. It could be done during a weekend layover, but the result...

Perhaps not but a visit to the doctor remains advisable.

All true. It also happens that simple problems get made complex by people who mean well, do the best they can with what they have to work with, but also lack the perspective or information that drivers often have. When a shipper or dispatcher sees only part of the picture and understands one's...

It could be something minor or major. Do you think you might have had a stroke? Since it could be serious, you should treat it as such and consult a physician now. If it is something serious, no amount of thinking or talking about it will help. I would not mess around. See a doctor.

Are you embracing the stupidity or enabling it? Either way, when a load goes badly wrong and multiple parties are simultaneously involved in trying to develop a fix, that is a signal to disengage from the stupidity. You did not create these problems. Your ability to solve them is limited...

This may become known as the 30 minute break that isn't. Sitting at a truck stop mid-day today, I observed a number of trucks come in, park for about 15 minutes and then leave. My guess is that they are doing their 30 minute break but counting the minutes from the time they leave the freeway to...

Joe, It may remain beyond your power to influence government, and the chance to do what you want to do may never come. Yet you work and you do the best job you can. You work and you do the best job you can. Your words brought to mind an audio series that I sometimes enjoy listening to. It is...

It is not true that the government is totally out of touch with reality. The firefighters still come when the alarm goes off. The roads get repaved. Solders get trained and perform well in battle. A pound weighs a pound and a gallon is a gallon because of government regulations. That said...

Check out this Overdrive article: Severity weights, out-of-service protocol for new hours rules Violating the 30 minute break rule gets you 7 CSA points (a high number in the CSA scale). With the multiplier, the 7 points become 21 for the first year they are on your record. DOT seems to be...

That was the case, exactly the same, under the old HOS rules too. Yes, indeed; it is regretable that all drivers need to be regulated because some drivers lack the common sense to manage their time and sleep well, and to put safety first. But that does not justify the new rules. While they make...

What overcrowding are you seeing exactly?

Of course the enemy is different. When we are fighting over what the Hours of Service regulations will look like, we are fighting people who want the regulations to be different than we would have them be. Government regulations do not happen by themselves. They are created when your neighbor...

Yes, many truckers or people who would become truckers have put their lives on the line in the military to fight for America and fight against enemies who wish to destroy America and its ideals. Patriotism is a strong motivator. Fighting rules that source from within America is something...

Not always. Expediters have scored many large wins because we are the only solution remaining to the customer. I remember one load in particular where the shipper complained that our carrier's rate ate up half of his quarter's shipping budget on the single load we carried. In the bigger...

This is why we should be paid more under the new rules, but from a shipper's point of view, since our productivity has been reduced, we should be paid less.

There have been times where the new rules motivated us and made it more desirable to drive faster. That does not mean violating the speed limits. It just means driving faster than we normally would if the new rules did not exist. Our truck is speed-limited to 65 mph. The down side is, increased...