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Originally Posted by flatbedder
These HOS Regs. really do not make sense. How come you cant go over 60 in 7 days but it is legal to burn your 70 in 5 days and take a reset? What are these lawmakers thinking :?:
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You're right; they don't make sense. And lots of times they can't be followed.
For instance:
I finished the delivery at 2PM after driving for 8 hours. Was told to make a pickup 150 miles away at midnight.
How'm I gonna do that? :?
I could sleep from 1400 til 2200, but there was no place to park; I had to drive another hour to a truck stop. By that time it was 1500. If I sleep for anything less than 8 hours it doesn't count as sleep! That's time "on duty".
So I drove to the pickup point. But since I had started my day at 0600, I had to shut down for 10 hours at 2000, right? - 14 hours.
So now - legally - I can't make my pickup. And even if I did, I couldn't go anywhere with it -legally - because I'm out of hours!
Tough!, says my pickup location. You're loaded, get outa our lot! By that time it was 1 AM, it was raining, I was in St Louis.....I had actually been on duty since 0600 - legally - ....so what did I do?
I lied. I tore up my old log sheet and made myself one that would get me through the scale south of St Loius and on to the rest stop so that I could get some sleep.
Good call, too!.....It was Friday, they were checking logs (they often do on Fridays because they know we all want to make it home) and when the guy stepped up to the truck and said "Lemmee see your log book" I had it in his hands instantly.
"You know you're about to run outa hours, right?"
"Sure do! I'm on my way to the rest stop right now." (that part was true)
"OK. Pull out of line and drive around the scale."
:lol: Heh, heh......I was a tad overweight on the trailer tandems, too... :lol:
Slept like a very tired trucker, too........