ELDs or Let’s figure out what to do
I have been a member of this site for several years. I have read many comments that you all have to say and I do enjoy the reading. I have never voiced my opinion over many things that I have read. But I feel that now is the time. IF YOU CANNOT MAKE MONEY WITH THE HOURS THAT WE ARE GIVEN THEN DO NOT DO IT. Please, please, please!!!!! Find something that makes you the living that you need to sustain your livelihood because if you have to work longer than the hours that are given you are only making it harder on all of us, both YOU and I. I have made a lot of money in Trucking and I have lost a lot of money in Trucking, but somehow I still survive, for 25 years. We will never come together and say enough is enough, but with this new law might put us all on the same page if you cannot make a living within the hours of the law, it might be time for you to figure out something else to do and leave the rest of us here to make some money. LET ME ME SAY THIS LOUDLY we need to stick to our guns make our money in the hours given if you can’t THEN YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Are the problem. With all this being said I am an old school trucker that as no shit driven coast to coast AND back without laying down (in a Western Star with a 36” sleeper back in 1999 pulling a hopper and thank you Hottsey Lockhart for making me lay down for a little while) I was chasing that almighty dollar. My son goes with me every chance he gets he has ridden more miles in a truck than most NEWBIES have driven (do not tell any one but my 14 year old has driven more miles in our 379 than most of them) with that being said do we want to leave our Trucking legacy to our kids saying if you don’t DO more 70 hours a week you won’t make it! REALLY COME ON GUYS!!!!! I have (self willing) put myself on eld for the past 3 months to see how it would effect my other trucks and i quickly learned what do do (maybe to laundry, wash truck, oil change, paperwork etc when my weekly hours ran out). Not so much different than I was already doing it. Like I have already said I am old school that has driven 7000 miles a week WHY IN THE HELL would we want to to more rhan 3500 miles or work more than 70 hours in a week FIGURE IT OUT IT!!! If you ain’t making it in 70 hrs a week please find something else to do