[rebajosh]

I wish enough truckers would stick together and stop moving freight for a week. That would be all it would take to wake up the American public. The anti-truck groups BS would fall on deaf ears then.

[Fozzy]

Originally Posted by rebajosh

I wish enough truckers would stick together and stop moving freight for a week. That would be all it would take to wake up the American public. The anti-truck groups BS would fall on deaf ears then.

Yeah? Why not wish for world peace while your dreaming...

[greg3564]

Originally Posted by Fozzy

Yeah? Why not wish for world peace while your dreaming...

We'll have to add those to the "gas boycott."

[rebajosh]

Originally Posted by Fozzy

Yeah? Why not wish for world peace while your dreaming...

I know it will never happen. :sad:

[geeshock]

would be nice, idleing fobiden in NY boycot NY for a week. CA haveing such a diference in speed for trucks and 4 wheelers boycott. again, never going to happen, and if it did might as well say hi to our mexican counterparts.

[Raafi]

Originally Posted by PublicCitizen

The 34-hour restart allowed truckers to drive 77 hours in seven days or 88 hours in eight days – a more than 25 percent increase over the pre-2003 rules. On-duty hours during which truckers may drive also climbed, so that a driver working 14-hour shifts under the new rules can now work as many as 84 hours in seven days or 98 hours in eight days – the latter a 40 percent increase over the old limits.

i dont understand this. I am away from home for 168hrs a week, i am only allowed to drive 70, and these people are saying THAT is too much?


honestly, i could see me driving more than 100 and not being remotely tired. but like was said, this is the "they know me better than I know me" crowd.

funny, i havent had anyone tell me to go to bed since i was about 10 yrs old

[countryhorseman]

What they don't want to tell you, is that most studies have shown in the truck at fault rate, I believe it was found that 40% of those accidents occured in the first 4 hours of driving, and only 1% occurred in the 11th hour of driving. Read the in the truckers new or one of those just this last week.

They also fail to tell the rest of the world that over 70% of the accidents involving big trucks and four-wheelers are the fault of the four wheeler, which at the time of the accident, over 70% occured after the four wheeler driver had been at work over 8 hours.

So they cross the figures to skew them against the truck driver.