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Any other job 8th hour should be in the car on the way home , trucking is a modern day sweatshopThe proposal changes the 30 minute break from your 8th hour on duty to your 8th hour of driving.
Any other job 8th hour should be in the car on the way home , trucking is a modern day sweatshopThe proposal changes the 30 minute break from your 8th hour on duty to your 8th hour of driving.
The fact that the Department of Labor is....constantly tweaking the H.O.S.,...should tell everyone that they are doing a...balancing act.....between common-sense safety,...and company lobbyists.......
H.O.S. was originally a legal means for individual drivers to protect their health and safety,...from rapacious and unscrupulous trucking company management......Every "tweak" they make.......seems to benefit companies.......11 hour of driving now,......company-micro management of driver's time,.......Companies taking away the "voluntary" provisions of the 34-hour re-start,.....and telling employees when to use it,.....merely to maximize driver's time behind the wheel....
How about if we go back to the "10 hours driving-5 hours on duty" rule,....but let drivers go back to...filling out paper logs,...that can't be scrutinized and managed in "real time" ...like electronic logs?
Electronic logs aren't about safety,.......they are about company management of driver time.....
In spite of electronic logs,.....driver Fatal Occupational Injuries have been rising in the last couple of years,.....according to the Dept. of Labor. Fatigue still is a big factor.......
So,.....they are no better and no safer,....than paper logs.
Put the logging of time back in the hands of the guys doing the work........Make their "signature" on the paper log be....grounds for Perjury,.......and make it a Felony for any company official to....order or direct...a driver to....take a break, or alter a log....
Sometimes Technology is not the best answer,.....when dealing with Human Beings.....
A one hour meal period between the third and sixth hour
11 or 12 hours a day for a 4 day work week was enough. Then they decided to add Friday nights to utility. Now pushing 60 hrs every week. Then when you book off due to fatigue tm will write you up at the drop of a hat.Any other job 8th hour should be in the car on the way home , trucking is a modern day sweatshop
Aw man , you had a sweet schedule , sorry your all beat up now11 or 12 hours a day for a 4 day work week was enough. Then they decided to add Friday nights to utility. Now pushing 60 hrs every week. Then when you book off due to fatigue tm will write you up at the drop of a hat.
Excellently put, EFO. Can’t tell you how many times I came home in the dark...in the summer! Partly to blame is ABF’s aversion to hiring.Any other job 8th hour should be in the car on the way home , trucking is a modern day sweatshop
Can’t write you up if you have sick days to burn. Tell him to pack sand, then file a grievance.11 or 12 hours a day for a 4 day work week was enough. Then they decided to add Friday nights to utility. Now pushing 60 hrs every week. Then when you book off due to fatigue tm will write you up at the drop of a hat.
Happened more than you think. I worked in crew scheduling in the late 60's happened a lot, you just never heard about it.You never heard of a united airlines senior captain showing up drunk when he was making a comfortable 6-figure income and full pension benefits prior to airline deregulation in 1978. Mystery solved...
Happened more than you think. I worked in crew scheduling in the late 60's happened a lot, you just never heard about it.
Aw man , you had a sweet schedule , sorry your all beat up now
I used to run UE until they changed it to five days. My run was over 10 hours driving time which pushed us right against the 60-hour limit every week. Filed a grievance on forced excessive overtime. They posted a 40 hour bid knowing that it was impossible to run it without working at least 55 hours. That was right before they eliminated all the longer UE runs. Grievance was never heard because they eliminated the run. Many dozen next day points suddenly went to 3 to 4 day points. That's what happens when you have bean counters running a trucking company.11 or 12 hours a day for a 4 day work week was enough. Then they decided to add Friday nights to utility. Now pushing 60 hrs every week. Then when you book off due to fatigue tm will write you up at the drop of a hat.
Any other job 8th hour should be in the car on the way home , trucking is a modern day sweatshop
True, but good God...I gave up on chasing the dollars years ago. To me, getting home at a decent time of day and having family time in the evenings became much more important. But, like a masochist, I stayed in LTL until retirement. Silly me.When hasn’t it been? At least the pay (in certain sectors) makes it somewhat worthwhile...
I understand about the dollars my check last friday was missing a 30 mile move and three hours of breakdown time , it would take so much fighting and unpaid time chasing people around to get it. I will let them keep it and plus the last time something like this happened it was like a hundred bucks they said it would be on the next check and in true trucking company management ways the next check had a hunderd bucks deductedTrue, but good God...I gave up on chasing the dollars years ago. To me, getting home at a decent time of day and having family time in the evenings became much more important. But, like a masochist, I stayed in LTL until retirement. Silly me.
Funny how these fully-automated payroll systems can occasionally ‘miss’ an entry.I understand about the dollars my check last friday was missing a 30 mile move and three hours of breakdown time , it would take so much fighting and unpaid time chasing people around to get it. I will let them keep it and plus the last time something like this happened it was like a hundred bucks they said it would be on the next check and in true trucking company management ways the next check had a hunderd bucks deducted
Mean payroll lady too !Funny how these fully-automated payroll systems can occasionally ‘miss’ an entry.
Rumor here in 086 is that payroll has been going through an internal audit for the past several weeks. Debbie in 004 has been sending out many notices that employees are not correctly and accurately doing the paperwork for clock time.Mean payroll lady too !
I'm gonna google that..would love to buy a copy..,In 1999, Dr. Thomas H. Belzer Ph.D wrote a book called "Sweatshops on Wheels, Winners and Losers in Trucking Deregulation".....
That was....20 years ago,........Conditions have gotten substantially worse,.....and the Union side of this business has shrunk to about 5% of truck drivers.
Any correlation?