I remember pre ELD working way more than 70 hours per 6 days and spending my 7th day reworking my log and fuel reports to make it down to 70 and be sure all time stamps lined up. I fought the ELD and the government implemented it and I was put on it and after a short time using it I realized how underpaid the trucking industry is. Years ago my friends would talk about more pay for less hours and they would get it. In trucking it seems like we are so proud to work more hours for less. I can almost guarantee you that factoring in inflation I made more real money in the 80s working a 60 hour week than I do now. Just my thoughts
Hell yes it’s too many hours for one week. The 70 hour and 60 hour rule simply shows how underpaid our industry is. That is nothing more than modern slavery to supply the sorry ass people that hate our industry and the people that do the hard work to deliver and pickup their garbage. Personally I can’t wait to retire.
Thank you buddy! I recently was forced to retired early. I was run off the road in my pick up truck and my back was broken. No one stopped now I'm working from online. I have worked for thirty years as a driver. The hours over the road and local can vary. I mostly worked local hauling everything i do miss working. 70 hours was too much at the end of my career back earlier in my career i loved the hours slash money. So i guess its all depends on the person and their needs. God bless you buddy I'm a happy armed resident of Texas.
I’m in the logging industry, we work 60 hours minimum and we start are days in the middle of night. The world doesn’t know what happens outside office buildings and the concrete jungle.
The good old days when you got paid by the load . If you weren’t listening to CB and you got pulled over they asked to see log you would just act like you lost it they would shut you down for 8 hours 25 dollar fine
Average American works 38 - 40 a week, truckdrivers have the ability to work 70 hours a week. Now. Let's talk backbone of feeding Our country ,,work from sun up. To sun down praying for rain and a good crop come in or price of cattle go's up. So they can make a living. And pay the Bank. God bless our farmers and Ranchers
I drove for 27 years,mostly OTR till forced off the road for health reasons...I now have a good union job, great benefits and retirement..work a 40 week, monday through friday, time and a have after 8 and on weekends, all holidays off...i missed the road, and the money..for a while..but in reality i wish i had done this much sooner...regular sleep pattern, no public rest rooms, and no more 70 hour weeks...and no feast or famine ..regular pay check...was a third generation drive
Back in the days of Benzedrine, meth and other such things there were a lot of drivers who could put 96 hours in, in 4 days then take a 3-day weekend.Some guys could put well over a hundred hours in in a 4-day period
I did almost 30 years pre ELD, destroyed my health, praying you don't. I let my work ethic almost kill me and I was and am totally disabled 5 years now. My 59th Birthday is next week and I live in poverty and divorced.
Messing with that aggregate business I let my health go bad bad. Getting back to fuel I’m slowly getting it back under control. There’s a lot more movement with fuel atleast. Working hard is all I know, I’ve been trying to learn a good balance and slowly figuring that part out.
It's way more than 70 if you add all the time from when we leave our home and come back...... I love this job and the money I make. I want to do it as long as possible. Then I will think about driving a dump truck in the summer and working fewer hours.... and taking winter months off
It’s not that 70 hours a week is too much to work, it’s that the amount of pay you receive for working 70 hours is ridiculously low. Drivers are getting screwed, and they have been for a long time. It all comes down to greed, and as long as drivers are willing to take less in exchange for their limited lifespan, the industry will continue to take advantage of them. The only real problem in Trucking is the fact that the amount of effort and responsibility far Exceeds the compensation. Especially in the OTR realm.
When I was farming I put 40 hours in by Wednesday morning, and I worked seven days a week…. 70 hours in the trucking industry is OK but why is it 70 hours in eight days a week is only seven days. If it was a simple and it would make a heck of a lot more sense. Or 80 in 8. If you look at the daily allowances on your hours you get 11 hours per day to drive so if you go 11 hours by eight days that would be 88 hours. Or if you go to the 14 hours duty cycle… that would be 112 hours in eight days. That way every day could be the same amount of hours, it would truly simplify things….. however hours of service in general is a crock of crap, who he sleeps on a rotating schedule and has to sleep for exactly 8 hours every day? Most people operate on much less than eight hours of sleep, so the 10 hour requirement to reset your clock after driving for however long during the day often times screws us over and makes us drive hours when we are actually more tired. It is not a good representation of how Driver actually feels.
I be worked 70hrs a week 9-10 months out of the year for 30 plus years. I’ve made a good living and didn’t mind doing it. If you don’t want to work that much don’t. Just get a job in a field that doesn’t require it or offer it and don’t complain about the people that do like it. In the winter months when I slow down to 50 a week I pick up side work and keep on going.
yup! anything that shows a load, over normal hours. equals load shift! but now I'm lay'n on my back in bed, and should be taken as such! "where I come from"! rolling on!------------>>>>
I would not put in more than 60. If your company doesn't like it they can go &F$ themselves. Wait for the paycheck, tell em to come pick their (broke) f'n truck.
I remember pre ELD working way more than 70 hours per 6 days and spending my 7th day reworking my log and fuel reports to make it down to 70 and be sure all time stamps lined up. I fought the ELD and the government implemented it and I was put on it and after a short time using it I realized how underpaid the trucking industry is. Years ago my friends would talk about more pay for less hours and they would get it. In trucking it seems like we are so proud to work more hours for less. I can almost guarantee you that factoring in inflation I made more real money in the 80s working a 60 hour week than I do now. Just my thoughts
Amen, me too
Hell yes it’s too many hours for one week. The 70 hour and 60 hour rule simply shows how underpaid our industry is. That is nothing more than modern slavery to supply the sorry ass people that hate our industry and the people that do the hard work to deliver and pickup their garbage. Personally I can’t wait to retire.
Thank you buddy! I recently was forced to retired early. I was run off the road in my pick up truck and my back was broken. No one stopped now I'm working from online. I have worked for thirty years as a driver. The hours over the road and local can vary. I mostly worked local hauling everything i do miss working. 70 hours was too much at the end of my career back earlier in my career i loved the hours slash money. So i guess its all depends on the person and their needs. God bless you buddy
I'm a happy armed resident of Texas.
Thank you and I am as well!! Texas Proud
I’m in the logging industry, we work 60 hours minimum and we start are days in the middle of night. The world doesn’t know what happens outside office buildings and the concrete jungle.
The good old days when you got paid by the load . If you weren’t listening to CB and you got pulled over they asked to see log you would just act like you lost it they would shut you down for 8 hours 25 dollar fine
Average American works 38 - 40 a week, truckdrivers have the ability to work 70 hours a week.
Now. Let's talk backbone of feeding Our country ,,work from sun up. To sun down praying for rain and a good crop come in or price of cattle go's up. So they can make a living. And pay the Bank.
God bless our farmers and Ranchers
we should be working 80 hours and invest all of it so later we dont have to work 70 hrs.
You add in waiting for loading unloading we work at least 98 hrs a week.
I drove for 27 years,mostly OTR till forced off the road for health reasons...I now have a good union job, great benefits and retirement..work a 40 week, monday through friday, time and a have after 8 and on weekends, all holidays off...i missed the road, and the money..for a while..but in reality i wish i had done this much sooner...regular sleep pattern, no public rest rooms, and no more 70 hour weeks...and no feast or famine ..regular pay check...was a third generation drive
My company expects this, all the drivers quit. It's hilarious, I pretty much run about 50.
Back in the days of Benzedrine, meth and other such things there were a lot of drivers who could put 96 hours in, in 4 days then take a 3-day weekend.Some guys could put well over a hundred hours in in a 4-day period
😂😂good Ol Toothpicks
I did almost 30 years pre ELD, destroyed my health, praying you don't. I let my work ethic almost kill me and I was and am totally disabled 5 years now. My 59th Birthday is next week and I live in poverty and divorced.
Messing with that aggregate business I let my health go bad bad. Getting back to fuel I’m slowly getting it back under control. There’s a lot more movement with fuel atleast. Working hard is all I know, I’ve been trying to learn a good balance and slowly figuring that part out.
@@WSFTFORLIFEprayers brother, we looked like brothers at your age.
It's way more than 70 if you add all the time from when we leave our home and come back...... I love this job and the money I make. I want to do it as long as possible. Then I will think about driving a dump truck in the summer and working fewer hours.... and taking winter months off
It’s not that 70 hours a week is too much to work, it’s that the amount of pay you receive for working 70 hours is ridiculously low.
Drivers are getting screwed, and they have been for a long time. It all comes down to greed, and as long as drivers are willing to take less in exchange for their limited lifespan, the industry will continue to take advantage of them.
The only real problem in Trucking is the fact that the amount of effort and responsibility far Exceeds the compensation.
Especially in the OTR realm.
When I was farming I put 40 hours in by Wednesday morning, and I worked seven days a week…. 70 hours in the trucking industry is OK but why is it 70 hours in eight days a week is only seven days. If it was a simple and it would make a heck of a lot more sense. Or 80 in 8. If you look at the daily allowances on your hours you get 11 hours per day to drive so if you go 11 hours by eight days that would be 88 hours. Or if you go to the 14 hours duty cycle… that would be 112 hours in eight days. That way every day could be the same amount of hours, it would truly simplify things….. however hours of service in general is a crock of crap, who he sleeps on a rotating schedule and has to sleep for exactly 8 hours every day? Most people operate on much less than eight hours of sleep, so the 10 hour requirement to reset your clock after driving for however long during the day often times screws us over and makes us drive hours when we are actually more tired. It is not a good representation of how Driver actually feels.
I be worked 70hrs a week 9-10 months out of the year for 30 plus years. I’ve made a good living and didn’t mind doing it. If you don’t want to work that much don’t. Just get a job in a field that doesn’t require it or offer it and don’t complain about the people that do like it. In the winter months when I slow down to 50 a week I pick up side work and keep on going.
I work 84 to 90 hours a week when I'm at work
Same
70 hours is ok. I do ag CDL work along with construction. Pretty common to get close to 90 hours
yup! anything that shows a load, over normal hours. equals load shift! but now I'm lay'n on my back in bed, and should be taken as such! "where I come from"! rolling on!------------>>>>
I would not put in more than 60. If your company doesn't like it they can go &F$ themselves. Wait for the paycheck, tell em to come pick their (broke) f'n truck.
Don't complain.
💪💪
For some reason I feel like I know you 😂😂Do you haul fuel?
@@WSFTFORLIFE yes
@@RedRedred-ld4pb hauling fuel over 30 years?
It’s 70hrs in 8 days to work the same everyday constantly is only 8 1/2 hrs a day I actually do 70 hrs in 6 days then reset
I went over 70 hours this week. So I'm dumber than everyone in this comment section #modernslavery
If you squint hard enough it’ll be 70 hours 😂😂😂