The less hours these drivers can work the more people the Companies will have to hire.
Another Obama plan to put more people to work, by screwing over those already working.
IOW, "Mind their own business"
Those truckers are hard-working people if they cannot afford a 30-minute lunch break in the first eight hours of driving. The 70 hours per week (let alone 82!) are also not easy; that's 10 hours of work every single day! Something is wrong with the industry if people are forced to work that much.
You will pay more at the store for items trucked. Get ready for some inflation ...
They have to cut the workload for U.S. truckers so there’ll be work for the illegal Mexican truckers who are now allowed to travel our roads...
Okay, that’s the trucker’s point of view. Now how about the point of view of non-truckers?
A 70 hour workweek in a dangerous job that requires maximum alertness is perfectly reasonable. If you ask me, it should be 40. And it’s jaw-dropping that the old limit was 82. Are you kidding me?! I’m sharing the highways with the WALKING DEAD? So they can make more money?
It’s not okay for airline pilots to fly as much as the want without resting, and it’s not okay for truckers. If they don’t sleep, they aren’t just risking their own lives — they’re risking mine.
They don’t own the highways and they don’t have that right.
The mexican truckers that have taken over the industry in california win again!!!
Those mexican trucks don’t comply with anything!
The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration???
The vast majority of commenters, including the BLET and UTU in their joint comment, argue against the ‘‘calendar day’’ interpretation as inconsistent with existing railroad practice and harmful to railroad workers who will be unable to work previously acceptable schedules, and, as a result, they will earn less money.5 BLET and UTU argue that a 24-hour period of time off duty should be considered a break in the count of consecutive days, due to ‘‘the severe effects that will flow from the current interim interpretation.’’ The economic effects of the Interim Interpretation are discussed in detail in a comment submitted by an individual, which includes a schedule of trains for one crew in Needles, CA. The schedule appears to demonstrate that an individual working on a regular pool job may lose as much as $1,140 in an average month by operation of the ‘‘calendar day’’ interpretation...
you are incorrect.
it is some jerk private car drivers and some jerk private motorcycle drivers, and also some truckers, that are this problem.
i drive on a freeway all the time and i have to deal with truckers who cannot keep their rig in their own lane. both long haulers and locals.
Accidents caused by heavy trucks have dropped for years They’re a small percentage of the total number of accidents each year.
I work for the government and we hire private truckers to ship our instrumentation systems all over the country. To a man they have been pissed at the new regulations. They make their money by working long days. In my opinion these guys do a lot of hard work securing the load, then the actual driving is fairly light work and can reasonably be extended well beyond 8 hours per day.