Re: 2/8 split vs 14 hour monkey

"The Trucker" <mikcob@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> The new rules seem to allow a 2 hr. 8 hr. split rest period and
> 8 must be contiguous sleeper. What is the effect of the 2 hr.
> segment on the 14 hour day? Will we be able to "extend" the
> 14 hour clock by two hours by taking 2 hrs in the sleeper
> while waiting for the truck to be loaded?
>
> Is it like a split sleeper where the time on both sides of
> the 2 or 8 hour segments must not be more than 14 hrs
> and no more than 11 hrs driving? What's the deal.
> Perhaps the new rules are a flat 14 and that is that.
>
> --
> "I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers
> of society but the people themselves; and
> if we think them not enlightened enough to
> exercise their control with a wholesome
> discretion, the remedy is not to take it from
> them, but to inform their discretion by
> education." - Thomas Jefferson
> http://GreaterVoice.org

Well, it's sorta nice to see that no one else understands
the new rule either. I read some of the stuff and it
implied that I could stretch my day to 21 hours if
I log 7 hrs in the sleeper while waiting for some holier
than thou shipper to load the truck. If it took him
6 hrs to load the truck then I can extend to 20 hrs.
That is what the rules seem to say. Things just got
worse. Short haul monkey shit and no pay for
sitting at loading docks is the order of the day.
Oh, I forgot. If the customer (out of the kindness
of his heart) wants to pay detention after stealing
two hours of your life then MAYBE you as a
driver MIGHT get a piece of it. These rules then
proceed to prevent the long haul driver from making
a living by forcing him to take yet another 8 hours
off even if he had already taken 7 hours kissing
the dock people's butt.

As usual it is "how can we _appear_ to be protecting
the public while ripping off the drivers at the company
level?"


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