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Originally Posted by Ronin
you talk as if this is a bad thing? :twisted:
Seriously though, it will be legal, at all times. I've never gotten a log ticket and don't plan on starting now.
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I don't pass judgement, I leave that up to the individual driver. But I do tend to point out that such things are possible so a driver can go in eyes wide open. There is a tendency in this industry, and on this board, to pretend that everyone runs completely legal and that everyone is a saint. I think some people fall for this. They start out driving for a mega-carrier with zero tolerance rules (like the companies that force you to log on duty and trash your 10 hour break because you fired up the truck and drove it 100 yards across a shippers lot.) Then, they hear similar stories from everyone else, and hear the lie many like to tell that everyone is legal. It becomes easy to believe that that is just the way it is. Then a driver moves on and finds himself working for a company where you've got to play the game a bit to get the job done, or worse for a straight up outlaw shop. Can be a bit of a shock for some drivers, so I figure it's best to give them a heads up.
Incidentally, legal is kind of relative, if you choose to take that view. I never got a log book violation... on any of my log books