Great video. I like how you welcome everyone, understand how to Instruct people at different stages and individualize each person, at the same time you can be honest and blunt while encouraging people to do better.
Don’t let your company force you to use split sleeper. The company I’m leased to discovered split sleeper advantages from a driver they hired that came from a big carrier. Before that we drove a standard straight 10 and max of 14 daily. After that they discovered that driver performance was severely lacking as the week progressed. And HOS violations were occurring(caught by the company, thankfully). They, sitting in their comfy $1200 office chairs and being able to sleep in their own homes with their families every night, had no clue how hard it was for their drivers to change their daily routines from being either a day shift or a night shift driver to working all different periods of a 24 hour cycle. After the advantages were apparent the loads were being scheduled accordingly, they were very forceful. Constantly keeping us on the spot as to why it couldn’t be done, citing their newfound knowledge. Not everyone is built the same. Not all of us can get proper rest doing it, thus the performance decline as the week went on. If you need to once in a while, great. If you want to, awesome. Just know your limits.
Great video. I like how you welcome everyone, understand how to Instruct people at different stages and individualize each person, at the same time you can be honest and blunt while encouraging people to do better.
Do you have to pre and post trip in between splits
Don’t let your company force you to use split sleeper. The company I’m leased to discovered split sleeper advantages from a driver they hired that came from a big carrier. Before that we drove a standard straight 10 and max of 14 daily. After that they discovered that driver performance was severely lacking as the week progressed. And HOS violations were occurring(caught by the company, thankfully).
They, sitting in their comfy $1200 office chairs and being able to sleep in their own homes with their families every night, had no clue how hard it was for their drivers to change their daily routines from being either a day shift or a night shift driver to working all different periods of a 24 hour cycle.
After the advantages were apparent the loads were being scheduled accordingly, they were very forceful. Constantly keeping us on the spot as to why it couldn’t be done, citing their newfound knowledge. Not everyone is built the same. Not all of us can get proper rest doing it, thus the performance decline as the week went on.
If you need to once in a while, great. If you want to, awesome. Just know your limits.
Calling someone names like a box of rocks isn’t cool either