Every trucker knows exactly what a log book is. It is a grid-style graph they will use to keep an eye on the hrs spent driving, working, off duty as well as in the sleeper birth. It’s lovingly known as the comic, funny pages, or cheat sheet.
The guidelines are confusing. They altered close to the finish of 2005 and also the forces that maintain Washington (none who, I am sure have ever driven an 18-wheeler) haven’t made the decision if these changes would be the final draft. We used so that you can drive 10 hrs before requiring an 8 hour break. Now we are able to drive 11 hrs (not straight, obviously) but will need to take a ten hour break.
To become quite honest, I’m not sure every detail from the new rules, but I am confident that I am ever involved with a trucking accident, the lawyers will fill me in.
When the initial rules were first made law, trucking was nothing beats it’s today. Today, the over-the-road trucks have sleepers which are a lot more like moving studio apartments compared to coffin sleepers from during the 60s and 70s. In those days, a person was prone to sleep on the board propped between your driver and passenger seats. The roads were nothing beats the super highways we’ve today. Today, we’ve satellite radio to pass through time, air ride cabs and air ride seats. We are able to stay in in the small-mall truck stop and obtain a good shower along with a meal. However the big alternation in the log book rules was 1 extra hour we’re permitted they are driving, adopted by 2 extra hrs we must sit around and twiddle our thumbs.
You need to realize, my commute from “home” to “work” is all about 2 ft. I’m able to drive in sweat pants as well as an undershirt if I wish to. I haven’t got all of the distractions that the normal job may entail. To tell the truth, most truckers would like to get lower the street, have it over and done with and obtain home. But they’re frequently forced right into a situation where they either need to park for any 10-hour break when they’re merely a couple of hrs at home or lie on their own log books.
Personally, i think log books do not have anything related to safety. They’re helpful theoretically, but, ultimately, you simply can’t legislate sleep. Ultimately, safe motorists will pull over when they’re tired and unsafe motorists will not- regardless of what their log books say. Ultimately, good sense can not be gleaned from the sheet of carbon and a pair of pieces of paper.
