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>I would hate to be at a mercy of politicians.. Being in private industry won't shield you. Over the past decade or so non-legislative OSHA rulings have compl

>I would hate to be at a mercy of politicians.. Being in private industry won't shield you. Over the past decade or so non-legislative OSHA rulings have completely annihilated business who manufactures small cranes to the favor of anyone who manufactures hydraulic equivalents. Remember all those weird conversion van/truck things, aftermarket sleepers and other "not quite a full fledged semi truck sleeper" stuff that was it's whole little industry until the 90s? DOT rule re-interpretation of a rule related to off-duty time killed all that. EPA's, DEA's and ATF's capriciousness is well known...

dguest 4y ago
I'm not sure I have any idea what you're talking about, and I remember the 90s. Do you have a more concrete example, e.g. a picture of these things?
- dsfyu404ed 4y ago
  https://cdn1.mecum.com/auctions/ch1015/ch1015-223836/images/ch1015-223836_2@2x.jpg https://cdn1.mecum.com/auctions/ch1015/ch1015-223836/images/... https://i.pinimg.com/originals/6e/ce/ba/6eceba50ee4286808fa1aee1b294bfd7.jpg https://i.pinimg.com/originals/6e/ce/ba/6eceba50ee4286808fa1... https://i.redd.it/zgj5g0d0pb221.jpg https://i.redd.it/zgj5g0d0pb221.jpg They were the economically obvious solution for uses where a single day trip is beyond the limit of one day's worth of DOT working hours, you don't have enough cargo to justify running semi trucks and you're doing it often enough that dicking around finding motels is a waste of time and money. If you got "fresh maine seafood" in NYC in the 80s it was probably delivered by a 20ft light box truck with those sort of sleeping quarters. All that went away after the DOT decided that sleeping in anything other than a purpose built sleeping quarters could still satisfy the off duty requirements (I forget the exact verbiage). IMO that's how it always should have been, still everyone who made their bucks building those things, and a heck of a lot of motels that catered to commercial drivers, got screwed overnight.

dguest 4y ago

I'm not sure I have any idea what you're talking about, and I remember the 90s. Do you have a more concrete example, e.g. a picture of these things?

dsfyu404ed 4y ago
https://cdn1.mecum.com/auctions/ch1015/ch1015-223836/images/ch1015-223836_2@2x.jpg https://cdn1.mecum.com/auctions/ch1015/ch1015-223836/images/... https://i.pinimg.com/originals/6e/ce/ba/6eceba50ee4286808fa1aee1b294bfd7.jpg https://i.pinimg.com/originals/6e/ce/ba/6eceba50ee4286808fa1... https://i.redd.it/zgj5g0d0pb221.jpg https://i.redd.it/zgj5g0d0pb221.jpg They were the economically obvious solution for uses where a single day trip is beyond the limit of one day's worth of DOT working hours, you don't have enough cargo to justify running semi trucks and you're doing it often enough that dicking around finding motels is a waste of time and money. If you got "fresh maine seafood" in NYC in the 80s it was probably delivered by a 20ft light box truck with those sort of sleeping quarters. All that went away after the DOT decided that sleeping in anything other than a purpose built sleeping quarters could still satisfy the off duty requirements (I forget the exact verbiage). IMO that's how it always should have been, still everyone who made their bucks building those things, and a heck of a lot of motels that catered to commercial drivers, got screwed overnight.