What do you most want to see from an hours of service rewrite?

22 Comments

  • Travis Copeland - 6 years ago

    No ELD small carriers (less then 10 trucks)
    No 30 minute break
    a 3 part HOS starting with beginner (current regs)
    10 year to 15 year driver (more hours to drive, no 14, flexible split sleeper)
    15 to retirement (full flexibility no HOS your safe driving record speaks for itself
    Allowing veteran drivers the ability to opperate as needed)
    Of course all safety and csa scores applicable and your HOS status can be dropped as needed
    Last but not least revamp the rules pertaining to 100 mile radius to include
    The area your currently in IE i run a load to denver and stay within 100 miles of
    The area i delivered no logs needed 150 mile radius run paper our last delivered load bol would be proof of radius

  • Todd Campbell - 6 years ago

    Flexibility like we had before 14hr rule. No 30-minute break, we take breaks daily.

  • Ryan - 6 years ago

    I agree with one of the above comments. Get rid of the 14 hour bs all together. I know my limits and I know when I need to rest the computer on my dash does not.

  • RON LINDSEY - 6 years ago

    NO DOUBT THERE NEED TO BE A CERTAIN AMOUNT OF REGULATIONS. THERE ARE SOME SHIPPERS AND RECEIVERS WHERE A PERSON WILL USE UP 30 TO 90 MINUTES CHECKING IN AT A GUARD HOUSE THEN BE SENT TO A SHIP/RECEIVE OFFICE THEN SENT TO A DOCK ON THE OPPOSITE SIDE OF THE BUILDING . THEN THE LOAD / UNLOAD PROCESS BEGINS. THE MAJORITY OF PLACES WE GO DO NOT OPERATE WITH THE SAME REGS. IN MIND THAT WE ARE REQUIRED TO FOLLOW. WE NEED TO BE ABLE TO STOP / EXTEND OUR CLOCK IN THESE SITUATIONS AFTER A REASONABLE AMOUNT OF TIME. THERE NEEDS TO BE A SET NUMBER OF HOURS IN A 24 HOUR PERIOD WE CAN BE ON DUTY AND/OR DRIVE . WE NEED TO BE ABLE TO DECIDE HOW THOSE HOURS ARE SPLIT UP AND USED. AS IT IS NOW, WE ARE ALWAYS RACING THE CLOCK. THERE ARE SO MANY VARIABLES THROUGH OUT THE DAY THAT AFFECT OUR TIME IN SO MANY WAYS. WE NEED FLEXIBILITY.

  • Last real trucker - 6 years ago

    Get rid of the 30 min break and the 14 hour bs and keep there dick beaters off of it

  • Galen - 6 years ago

    Forget all of the 30 min rule, 11 hr rule, 14 hr rule, 70 hr rule and go with simplistic. A driver can drive up to a total of 14 hrs in a 24 hour period 7 days a week.

  • Travis Travillian - 6 years ago

    Get someone to act on our Over Regulation Laws Now! Get people qualified with knowledge of the Industry. Instead of being advised by the big Corps and Insurance. Using the Laws for Political Business games. Get the Guilty Ones for What They Do and quit punishing the rest of us for what a few has done. Open the doors where the responseable ones can go back to making a living. Give us breathing room again. You have no Driver Shortage. You have Control Freaksmaking and enforcing laws they don’t know the first thing about that are running the drivers off as fast as they can be trained. And I think this is what the big companies want. 50 years at it. I’m fixing to get out of it to. ELogs CSA2010 CDLs alll have been a lie and useless to the industry. Like it wade the bad enough to begin with. LET US DO OUR JOBS

  • Jeffrey Stevenson - 6 years ago

    12 hrs between shifts for Local Drivers. With commute to and from work, Traffic etc, and only 10 hrs off, we're fatigued All The Time !

  • Swamp Thang - 6 years ago

    I agree with the ability to pause the 14 hour clock. This allows drivers to pull over and rest during rush hour traffic etc. relieving some congestion instead of being forced by a time limit to keep driving and add to congestion.

  • Michael - 6 years ago

    16 hours work drive, or stand on my head..8 hours in bunk no splits 7 hour driving must take 15..fuel or poop whatever..

  • Jason Edwards - 6 years ago

    Scrap the log book and the rules all together, and let everyone be responsible for their own actions. Oh, how simple things would be if each driver had the liberty to choose for themselves when and where they wanted to stop. Oh, wait.... this is America, and we don't have liberty or freedom in this country. Wake up folks !!!

  • Dale Spencer - 6 years ago

    What I’d like to see is 11 on 8 conservatively off and on split berth 5 and 1/2 on 5 off and get rid of the 1/2 break it not making a difference and that was for the union boy i’m Not Union I’m independent and make it manitory detentions start 1 hr in no ifs and or but don’t care if big company’s lose a costumer

  • Keith - 6 years ago

    What difference does it make you people are going to do what you wanna do anyway.
    Just cause it works on paper doesn’t mean it works out here. You got certain individuals that have never
    Seen the inside of a truck trying to make the rules

  • Michael Huff - 6 years ago

    Other than removal of the mandatory 30 min break I would love for the removal of the maximum hours a week.I feel they limit the amount of money that we as drivers can make. I also know that I feel more tired after a 34 hour restart than I did before.

  • Robert - 6 years ago

    Let the driver decide.. I know when I need to stop. I know how long I'm able to drive. I dont always need 10 hours to sleep. Telling me when I can and cant drive makes some days harder than they need to be.. Stop penalizing the driver. Crack down on shipper and receivers. That's the real issue..

  • Steve - 6 years ago

    Leave 14hr rule in place, but increase from 11hr driving to 13hrs inside the 14hrs.
    It’s your 14hr day to work or drive, depending upon what is ahead of you.
    Long run, 13hrs of driving with a break in the middle. A lot of pick ups, less driving.
    Don’t need to put in a short day because of a long driving day with no pick ups or deliveries.

  • David - 6 years ago

    We need to be able to stop the 14 hr clock,delay times at shippers and receivers are eating us alive,hey fmcsa,its not rocket science!!!

  • David - 6 years ago

    Ability to pause the 14 hour clock.

  • Christopher Chupp - 6 years ago

    Eliminate both the 14 hour rule rule and the mandatory 30 minute break. Leave the rest alone

  • Tom Petersen - 6 years ago

    Small trucking companies should not have to use ELDs.

  • Debbie Desiderato - 6 years ago

    Leave the small business carriers (

  • DARREN FITE - 6 years ago

    Life was safer and simpler before the know nothing FMCSA determined they needed to put us on a stop watch system. Never was I so tired and frustrated before these changes. The ELD was the finishing blow, and I said screw it!

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