At a good company, a dispatcher will immediately back off when a driver expresses fatigue or illness. Of course, such can have consequences. What bothers me mor

At a good company, a dispatcher will immediately back off when a driver expresses fatigue or illness. Of course, such can have consequences. What bothers me more than a tyrannical dispatcher, is the bad side of regulations. For example, if I start my day at, say 03:00 (with a 30min pre-trip inspection) and arrive at loc at 06:00, but it takes 8 hours to load/unload, during which I sleep, my 14 hours is still penalized, despite adequate rest. I now have 3 hours to find food, or parking and progress to my next destination, and I'll probably not sleep for a while after I stop. But dispatch wants me to optimize off-duty time by resuming immediately after my available hours refresh. So I sleep 4 hours and the federal government and dispatch are happy, because the numbers look good and my schedule is tidy. I always said bureaucracy and biology was a tough mix. A minor quibble, but it bothered me.