Illegal driving??
This forum has been really educational for me. I appreciate everyone's views. It's also taught me that I'm a bit of a loudmouth and probably need to learn to shut up.....I'm not going to shut up today though. No personal anger directed to anybody but the people that are ok with the eld or hours of service please jump in and answer my few questions. Show me where I'm wrong because in 2 years I've fell in love with this industry and am advocating for making it better.
I read the term illegal driving today, no offense to that person. But fmcsa and hours of service are turning the highways bloody. Let's make a stupid comparison because I enjoy working out and fitness.....the NBA. what would happen if we lower the hoop 2 feet, and widen it by 2 feet? Also limit the number of hours a basketball player can train. All the sudden. 6 foot tall dale Hermans can dunk and shoot like Lebron James. Player pay would decrease because half the country can dunk, skill would decrease because of less training which will lead to more injuries. AM I WRONG?
How is that comparison any different than creating autoshifts because we dont want to pay someone that's coordinated enough to navigate a turn and shift an 18 speed at the same time, while simultaneously getting a million miles out of a clutch. Then let's restrict the truckers ability to make a judgment call on when it's safe to drive, seems to me we've thoroughly leveled the playing field and lowered the driver skills significantly. Am I wrong?
Now we need to make more rules because boot and Jean's and a long hood culture is still kicking the crap out of the lazy flip floppers that want 14 hours off duty. Guess we better jack up owner OP insurance premiums and inspect the ever loving crap out of those chrome long hood trucks in an attempt to slow them down some more.
Who kills more people, the 379 pulling a cattle pot, who has some flexibility, or the white volvo with the wind fairings ripped off, but has conformed and only driven a nice lazy 8 hour day?
Prove me wrong
I read the term illegal driving today, no offense to that person. But fmcsa and hours of service are turning the highways bloody. Let's make a stupid comparison because I enjoy working out and fitness.....the NBA. what would happen if we lower the hoop 2 feet, and widen it by 2 feet? Also limit the number of hours a basketball player can train. All the sudden. 6 foot tall dale Hermans can dunk and shoot like Lebron James. Player pay would decrease because half the country can dunk, skill would decrease because of less training which will lead to more injuries. AM I WRONG?
How is that comparison any different than creating autoshifts because we dont want to pay someone that's coordinated enough to navigate a turn and shift an 18 speed at the same time, while simultaneously getting a million miles out of a clutch. Then let's restrict the truckers ability to make a judgment call on when it's safe to drive, seems to me we've thoroughly leveled the playing field and lowered the driver skills significantly. Am I wrong?
Now we need to make more rules because boot and Jean's and a long hood culture is still kicking the crap out of the lazy flip floppers that want 14 hours off duty. Guess we better jack up owner OP insurance premiums and inspect the ever loving crap out of those chrome long hood trucks in an attempt to slow them down some more.
Who kills more people, the 379 pulling a cattle pot, who has some flexibility, or the white volvo with the wind fairings ripped off, but has conformed and only driven a nice lazy 8 hour day?
Prove me wrong