BushogPapa: You where driving over the legal number of hours per day of driving. Back then you could only drive 10 hours before a rest period of eight hours. Now you can drive 11 hours but you have to have 10 hours of off duty with 8 of them in the bunk.
Here this coming year electronic logs are going to be mandatory. Meaning that a computer will tract what the truck is actually doing. So you will not be able to fiction write logs. With the wait times at many delivery/loading points I do not see how a driver on electronic logs is going to be able to make many miles.
An example when we hauled feed from ADM we had to wait to load for hours most of the time. We usually logged off duty even though we where in line. The trouble with electronic logs is moving your truck ahead in line counts as driving or on duty time. If the electronic logs are fully integrated to the truck like many big companies are, you have to have drive time left to even move the truck. Some trucking companies have the electronic logs computer detune the truck if your over your allowed drive time. Some of them give you 15 minutes of low horse power and then shut the truck off. So that makes you look hard early for places to lay over. Many places that you deliver to do not have places close for laying over. Walmart distribution centers being the worse. They build in the middle of no where and then do not have anywhere you can park until one hour before your delivery time. So you hurry to get there early and then have now where to park/lay over to unload. That will make the 3 AM unload appointments suck.
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