Robin Nelson - Comments

Document ID: FMCSA-2004-19608-2734
Document Type: Public Submission
Agency: Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration
Received Date: January 07 2008, at 11:20 AM Eastern Standard Time
Date Posted: January 7 2008, at 12:00 AM Eastern Standard Time
Comment Start Date: January 7 2008, at 12:00 AM Eastern Standard Time
Comment Due Date: February 15 2008, at 11:59 PM Eastern Standard Time
Tracking Number: 80385c89
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This is comment on Rule

Hours of Service of Drivers

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FMCSA Administration, I have worked in the trucking industry for over 26 years,and have found the post 2004 HOS to be detrimental to safety. If you really believed that more hours on the road leads to safer driving the bus passenger and airline rules also would have been increased. Correct? I have problems with the following: 14 hour cut off. Forces the driver to skip needed breaks(food and rest) to accommodate the increased mileage trips, and normal delays. 11 hours driving. If more is better just eliminate the limit altogether. Sleeper berth 8 hours . I would put being waterboarded by Dick Cheney as being preferable to lying in a noisy, jostling, bouncing tin box for eight hours! The idea that a team operation could safely operate with such a requirement only shows the enormous depth of your ignorance of the trucking industry. 34 hour restart. Let's call it by its proper name. The 98 Hours In 8 Days Rule!!! How about you working for 98 hours a week for ten years and then check back with us dumb drivers? Respectfully your humble servant, Rob Nelson