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The rule requires you to be off duty or in the sleeper berth for 30 minutes. Fueling a truck is logged as on duty not driving.

I was not talking about straight trucks alone but about all trucks. I'm thinking especially of the dance you see every night at truck stops where the big rigs work hard to find parking. I'm wondering if that situation might be made worse by a rule that requires trucks to park for 30 minutes when...

I wonder, did the tree huggers try to provide input into the new FMCSA HOS rules? I don't think they will be happy with the results, especially the mandatory 30 minute break. A truck that stops for 30 minutes and that the driver stays in is likely to idle or run its generator for that time...

Some shippers of high value produces (White Glove) don't even begin to prepare the shipment until they see the truck on the ground at their location. That's their priority of work. Get truck on property, prepare shipment. At our former carrier, we were not usually told that such delays would...

That may be true for a solo but not for teams like Diane and me who like to keep the truck moving while under load for security and fuel economy reasons. Every stop costs you more fuel than you would spend if you kept moving. When we are running, we don't stop to eat. The non-driving co-driver...

On the way to our vacation house in Florida where we will spend January and part of February. Looking forward to Landstar BCO Days in Jacksonville FL later this month.

If you read that language alone, it could be interpreted as that but my guess would be that the 30 minute break rule still applies. The language cited above is from a Q and A document, not from the reg itself. I'm wondering if shippers of secure freight will figure out that they can ship a tiny...

Or not. Major policy and equipment changes were made when Diane and I were there that were negative for percentage-paid contractors who ran their own equipment. No one from headquarters breathed a word about it. Our suspicions were not confirmed until we put two and two together and questioned...

If your gut is telling you not to do it, don't do it. If you cannot overcome your gut while sitting at home, the rigors of the road will be that much worse and you will almost certainly regret and be set back by the decision.

What kind of changes were mentioned? Who said it?

Are you happy with the way 2011 turned out? Yes What is the one thing (or 10 things) you will do different in 2012? Take more time off. Spend more time at our vacation house in Florida. Visit it more frequently. What was the most exciting/memorable thing that happened in 2011? (expediting...

It all depends on how you use the word dregs and what you consider real truckers to be. More to the point, the technologies mentioned above that make it easier to drive a truck and live on the road, and the shift in the trucker population you mention, show in yet another way how adding...

Correct. The driver mentioned was a team driver.

Correct. Our reasons for becoming expediters in 2003 were; 1) increase our income, 2), spend more time together, 3) share in a business project, 4) simplify our lives, and 5) see the country. Notice that becoming tough truckers was not on the list. If not for air conditioning, air ride seats...

I am using dregs in a broad sense and as a figure of speech. You are applying the term to CDL holders or those who aspire to be. I am not. If you want to push me to be more precise about the potential labor pool to which I refer, substitute unambitious laborers with limited skills, no desire...

It is a shipper's market until a driver shortage develops. But when will it develop? By putting EOBRs in trucks, carriers can replace driver skills (log keeping, time management, routing, fuel decisions, etc.) with in-truck baby monitors and intense supervision from dispatch and other entities...

No. My driving record, CSA score, and log book would prove everything I would need to prove whatever needed to be proved in the event of an accident, as would information from the truck's ECM which is already there at no additional cost to me. The EOBR would be an additional expense that...

You can include yourself in that group if you wish when you say "we" are our own worst enemies, but do not include me. I am not my own worst enemy and do not do the things you mentioned above (except complain about EOBRs; because adding one to our truck is not in Diane's and my best interests...

You have said this before. What do you mean by this exactly?

Incorrect. (Non-union) drivers asked for the flexibility to take a nap during the day in a way that would stop their 14 hour clock while they were on break. No driver I know asked to be forced to park his or her truck to take a break in the middle of his or her work day whether a break was...