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Adapting to the new rules is no big deal. You just shift your driving habits to comply. But preserving the same level of income or even increasing your income under the new rules ... that's the sixty-four dollar question.

That's a key difference that illustrates how different expediters run in different ways and, consequently, the rule changes will affect them differently. Credentials vary. Equipment varies. Lifestyle preferences vary.

This is true. It is also true that situations will develop that you cannot learn your way out of and runs will be lost to the new rules. When you are required to include two nights in a 34 hour reset when you were not before, when you can only do one reset a week when you could do more before...

Forgive my ragged analysis of the new rules. I'm just trying to figure them out like everyone else. An additional thought came to mind. Under the new rules, Diane would NOT have reset in the circumstances described above. I forgot about the mandatory 30 minute break. In the run we did, we...

We arrived near the delivery Saturday evening, call it 11:59 p.m. Saturday (midnight). Under the old rules, my 34 hour reset period began when I went off duty at 16:00 Saturday. Diane drove the rest of the way in. Her reset 34 hours began at midnight when she parked the truck and finished her...

There is the new 30 minute break rule and also the new two-night reset rule. Diane and I did a reset the other day, bringing both of us back to 70 hours available for driving, and that's how we started this week. We were under load over the weekend and delivered Monday morning. The reset took...

That is the question of the hour, but answering it is not so easy. With Moose pointing out different ways that different kinds of trucks and drivers will react/adjust to the mandated 30-minute break, I've been thinking about this and come up blank. The only thing we know for sure is that the...

Since we moved to Landstar Express America, our toll expenses plummeted because we do not go to that area as often. Massive (obscene) toll increases were imposed in the last year or so. But because tolls are not the issue they used to be for us, I have not looked closely at the present...

I agree, but how do drivers know what to charge? Just the little homework I did to calculate tolls for the chart posted above involved a fair amount of work.

That's partly correct. The other part is the load must be placarded 1.1, 1.2 or 1.3 to qualify for the on-duty exception. If you have to babysit a load 24/7 but it is not so placarded, you are required to go off duty like every other driver and load. This creates an obvious and serious...

The short story is the three routes differ very little in total toll cost to make that one-way trip from Bordentown to JFK. For a two-axle straight truck, $49-$50 will be paid in tolls. More will be paid by a three-axle truck and much more by a five-axle truck. It leaves me wondering if the...

Here is a small beginning to answering the questions I asked in post #22 above (click the little image below). The numbers may be wrong. I did this in a hurry. But I post it anyway to illustrate a way of thinking about how you run in the Northeast, and more importantly, what you charge to do...

So, starting from the Bordentown, NJ, Petro truck stop, three routes to JFK have been suggested: Designated by the bridges used, they are (miles in parentheses): 1. Goethals/Verrazano Narrows (83) 2. GW/Whitestone (90) 3. GW/Throgs Neck (95) These routes all follow interstate highways, not...

Alternative: N I-95 across George Washington Bridge S I-295 across Throgs Neck Bridge W I-495 S I-678 to JFK It's five miles further than taking the Whitestone Bridge route but that bridge sucks. Throgs Neck is more plesant, we have come to believe (to the extent any bridge is pleasant in...

Sitting at the dock for thirty minutes at the beginning of the day after loading will not work. From the FMCSA web site: The final rule requires that if more than 8 consecutive hours on duty have passed since the last off-duty (or sleeper-berth) period of at least half an hour, a driver...

Re: 1st geo hall of fame memeber Glen is out of the hospital, medically cleared and driving again. They cleaned the blood clots out of his heart and lungs and he is feeling better than he has in a long time because his breathing is improved. What was first called heart failure was something...

Picked up and delivered in Florida.

Nope. There would be no such market because the device could be easily defeated by duct taping a hamster to the steering wheel.

That's kind of the point I was raising. In today's surveillance society, if you show a proper 30 minute break but it later surfaces and is proven by a cell phone log, Facebook post or video footage from wherever you were parked that you were talking to dispatch in that time about your load or...

Interested to hear more.