Delays At Customers: How Could We Reduce The Downtime?
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Maybe I'm not looking at this the right way. But my modest suggestions.
All shippers/customers required to provide basic services. Toilet and water.
As for reducing down time or delays.
Shipper pays by the hour. Split Driving/Not driving rates to be applied and verified via elog. Cut down on customers that like drivers to arrive 1.5 hours early to check in. (Looking at you Amazon)
Empty miles paid per mile by trucking company or eaten by OO LO.
Elog:
Electronic Onboard Recorder
Electronic Logbook
A device which records the amount of time a vehicle has been driven. If the vehicle is not being driven, the operator will manually input whether or not he/she is on duty or not.
Shipper:
The customer who is shipping the freight. This is where the driver will pick up a load and then deliver it to the receiver or consignee.
Bud wrote:
And good luck getting Congress to pass an effective law regulating this! (The thought actually made me laugh out loud.)
My reference to Congress had everything to do with HOS law, and how (among other issues) it does not compensate and/or align for protracted delays at a shipper or receiver. Even so...unlikely anything comes out of it other than exercising my right to representation.
Overall I think you definitely described the root of the problem though.
My comment wasn't directed at you, G-Town! (Or anyone else for that matter.) I certainly understand writing to your representative. I've done it myself, recently.
I've been thinking about HOS and trucking regulations generally and wondering how we got in this mess. Then I remember and all I can do is shake my head.
There were a number of things that happened, including attention to deaths caused by truckers running like maniacs back in the day that caused the current regulations. It always seems like a good idea. I mean, who's in favor of truckers being allowed to run coast to coast and back in five or six days while amped up on speed? And that used to happen. (I could tell you real stories of real truckers I knew in the 70s...)
But to go from the wild west to this? Somehow we overshot the middle ground, I think.
Shipper:
The customer who is shipping the freight. This is where the driver will pick up a load and then deliver it to the receiver or consignee.
OTR:
Over The Road
OTR driving normally means you'll be hauling freight to various customers throughout your company's hauling region. It often entails being gone from home for two to three weeks at a time.
HOS:
Hours Of Service
HOS refers to the logbook hours of service regulations.New Reply:
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Bud wrote:
My reference to Congress had everything to do with HOS law, and how (among other issues) it does not compensate and/or align for protracted delays at a shipper or receiver. Even so...unlikely anything comes out of it other than exercising my right to representation.
Overall I think you definitely described the root of the problem though.
Shipper:
The customer who is shipping the freight. This is where the driver will pick up a load and then deliver it to the receiver or consignee.
OTR:
Over The Road
OTR driving normally means you'll be hauling freight to various customers throughout your company's hauling region. It often entails being gone from home for two to three weeks at a time.
HOS:
Hours Of Service
HOS refers to the logbook hours of service regulations.