Judgement: aganst the the driver for he may have been with-in at the time of ticket, he was going to go outside of his radius there-fore guilty.

Another instance is where a DOT officer states that he observerd a truck going 72 miles an hour at a speed drop from 65 to 55 and stops the truck 10 miles up the highway 7 minutes later stating that it was the only truck he had seen on the road. problem with his testimony is that he’s stated on the record that he had changed the date time stamp in the exec file to reflect what he thought was the correct time. Why? it is automatic. The question is how fast was the truck going to have traveled that 10 miles in 7 minutes and how fast was that DOT official traveling when he had to travel another mile south to make a u-turn and apprehend the truck. Found guilty on officers testimony. Problem with this is the truck came on the highway from fueling at an exit in the 10 mile stretch.

Try this one. Local officer stops truck traveling 55 in a 35 after observing a car and truck traveling at less than 35 in a 45 mile an hour stretch, lanes duble truck sped up to pass car car sped up to prevent until officer was spoted by car in which car slowed enough to let truck by. officer pulls out almost hits car trying to get around him and pulls truck over. cites truck for traveling 55 in 30 then calls DOT. Dot arrives does level three and other than inocent mistakes finds nothing to cite problem with this one is it took 2 1/2 hours before truck was released thus loosing the next load.

How about a standard set of rules thru-out the country and and a fair and impartial judicial system that doesnt rule on officials testimony but the facts.

I truly believe in the safety system for reasons of rediculus fuel prices forcing the truckers to cut corners and the biggest one is safety however i do not believe in the larger companies for the majority of the drivers are a number and have little to no experience.

The back bone of this industry is the owner operators that operate at little to no profit.

want to correct it bring down the price of fuel, force the shippers and receivers to do their job in a timely maner, eliminate appointments, hold shippers and receivers accountable for over weights and timely shipments, standardize all the (FICA,IRP’s, Single state regulations and Certifiactions, and any other additional requirement.) and truly standardize the FMC rules and regulations and hold the local and state to these rules as well.

The 11 hour rule states you may not drive more than 11 hours after being off duty for 10 hours. In your scenario, this would not come into play, as he is only accumulating a few hours driving, and is spending most of his time loading and unloading the truck. The rule you may have trouble with is the 14 hour rule. A driver may not have more than 14 hours on-duty after having a 10 hour off-duty break. All time spent during the day, whether it be loading, unloading, working on the dock, eating lunch, taking a nap (less than 8 hours), fueling the truck, etc. counts as part of your 14 hours. So, if you start your shift at 6am, you will be out of hours by 8pm, even though you spent only a few hours driving, because your 14th hour is 8 pm. Hope this helps.

How are the hours calculated for a local p&d that is constantly in and out of his truck all day. And also how is it calculated for say a dock worker that works a few hours on the dock then goes out for deliveries.

Thanks

On the doctor thing, don’t give the government any ideas. It wouldn’t surprise me at some point if a doctor made a big mistake on an important patient like a Senator or somebody because he just pulled an 18 hour shift…. BOOM, we now have medical hours of service rules. And then my health insurance can go up 30% every year instead of the 15% it does now.