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You can't drive more than 8h in any 24h period, and it isn't hard to bust them when they do due to simple physics.
by _8j50 3y ago
You can't drive more than 8h in any 24h period, and it isn't hard to bust them when they do due to simple physics.
- effingwewt 3y agoNot in the US[1] . And truckers here have been cooking their books since they were actual paper and pen. [1] https://www.usatoday.com/pages/interactives/news/rigged-forced-into-debt-worked-past-exhaustion-left-with-nothing/ https://www.usatoday.com/pages/interactives/news/rigged-forc...
- _8j50 3y agoI had a CDL-A a long time ago, that was the rule then. Big shops made sure you stuck to it (or so they said) but I also did here that they will indirectly force drivers to drive a lot more than that. When you hear about truckers making six figures, that isn't from 8hr days for sure. They even gave you a tip during training: if you open your truck's door, you're losing money. What happens when they force you is you don't get the trips you want or that are lucrative if you have a reputation of doing bare minimum.
- effingwewt 3y agoI got you, I have tons of family who are truckers and the stories abound of shady company tactics. When GPS first started being used in trucks they would take a bucket or something and cover it, it simply 'lost service'. None of this is new but it's definitely getting markedly worse. Even still, I'd never heard of some of the evil things they are doing these days like closing the yard gates so they have to keep rolling.
- butterknife 3y agoSorry to be pedantic but in EU the daily maximum as prescribed by law is 9 hours per day of driving, which can be extended to 10 hours twice per week. There are maximum hourly limits specified per week and per fortnight along with prescribed lengths of daily and weekly rest periods. https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/LSU/?uri=CELEX:32006R0561 https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/LSU/?uri=CELEX:32...
- _8j50 3y agoSorry, I meant the US