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The restart can only be done once a week. More accurately, it can only be done once every seven days. More accurately still, a restart can only begin 168 hours after the beginning of the previous restart period (the period in which you are sitting to restart your log). It does not matter what...

Workaround 1: This is not a workaround at all but simply the decision to take the 30 minute break as required. Stop the truck, sit for 30 minutes, proceed, add additional minutes for the time it takes to get the truck off the road, parked and back onto the road. In the case of an upcoming long...

The math works but I wonder about the theory. Yes, an 82 hour week was possible under the old rules, but how many truckers had such weeks really? I know of none. There may well be some but I don't know who they are. In ten years of expediting, neither Diane nor I have ever had an 82 hour week...

Delivery times are not an issue under the old rules or the new. In expediting, when a team or solo driver is unable to make the delivery time due to circumstances beyond his or her control, the delivery time is bumped and no service failure is charged to the driver(s) at carriers that do such...

Per the FMCSA web site, a restart: (1) Must include two periods from 1 a.m. to 5 a.m., ... (2) May only be used once per week, 168 hours, measured from the beginning of the previous restart.

Getting back to the "making it work" part of this topic, today is July 4. The new rules went into effect on July 1. We deadheaded one day and ran one load under the new rules. With our schedule now known through July 12, we can continue to figure out how to make it work. That said, I don't like...

All true, but they have plenty of use for the fruits of your labor and your vote.

Be careful about calling these people idiots, they are not. In fact, they are highly intelligent, highly motivated, brilliant people. Politics and political activism is practiced at numerous levels nationwide. There is a class of people called the political elite who finds the game attractive...

Added to list above as sub items under CARB

I think it is fair to say that it does not matter what political party occupies the White House at the time. Rule making continues at a rapid pace.

It's not that simple. It's not as if there are the rule makers and truckers only and that if only enough truckers rose up against the rule makers the truckers would prevail. There are numerous forces at work within the regulatory arena and numerous agendas. A lot of what goes on has little to do...

DEF added to list above.

It is what it is. I'm not commenting on the list items one way or another. I'm simply listing the regulatory changes that Diane and I have seen since entering the business 10 years ago. More are coming to mind, now that my brain is on the subject. I'm adding them to the list above as they come...

Just a note about timing and documenting a fuel stop. I don't know how other carriers do it so you may want to check. With our carrier, the system notes the time of the fuel stop not when the pump is started but when it is turned off. At that instant, they know a fuel stop happened. When they...

More came to mind: CSA Loss of 5/5 rule Huge fines for using cell phones by hand HOS rules changes (specifics needed about each change). CARB Diesel particulate filters Age limits on reefers Age limits on truck engines EOBR HAZMAT background checks Medical info now...

In another thread, I began to list some of the regulatory changes that have been made in the last ten years that affect us as expediters. That got me to wondering what are the rest? A little help please? What reguatory (including tax) changes have you seen in the last ten years? My list...

You are correct. It the required break must take place no later than 8 hours after your 14 hour clock starts. It is not about time spent driving, it is about time spent on duty (line 4) and on duty (line 3). My mistake.

The industry was regulated when Diane and I entered it ten years ago and we went in with our eyes open, accepting the regulations of the time. But something very bad has developed. It is as if someone took the brakes off the regulatory machine and it is now running out of control. That fact that...

Diane and I would have stopped for breaks, and some of them would have been 30 minutes or more. Indeed, that was our practice under the old rules. But now, under the new rules, we need to plan ahead, not for anything having to do with stretch and refresh breaks but, because there must be a break...

Individual practices vary greatly among drivers. It is very rare for Diane or I to take more than 15 minutes to complete a fuel stop. It might take longer if there is a shift change going on at the fuel desk or some other similar mess develops. We usually fuel during non-peak times so lines at...