salgud wrote:

>
> You must be hearing very different information that I'm getting.
> Stories of truckers driving 24, 36 or more hours with short pitstops
> are all over the media. It makes the roads very dangerous for the rest
> of us. And them being on various forms of meth doesn't help much.
>
> In my younger years, when I hitch-hiked all over the US, I got quite a
> few rides with truckers. They used to tell me how long they'd been
> driving, which was often way more than 18 hours.

I worked in commercial vehicle enforcement and caught a few guys who had been
driving for more than 30 hours straight. One guy had left Florida on Thursday
morning and driven to the border , stopping only for fuel and food. I got him
just after he crossed the border at 6 pm Friday evening, putting a serious
damper on his plans to make it to his birthday party at home, another two hours
down the road.

One guy got pulled in for an inspection because we were grabbing time markers
on his company because our auditors were going into their terminal the next
week for a facility audit. According to his log he had been driving all the say
from somewhere in the south. I got him at 6:30 pm on this side of the border
and his last log book entry showed him going "of duty" it a place in southern
WV, about a 12 hour drive from here.

I charged him, gave him the ticket, put him out of service and advised him to
fix his log to show that he had been on duty and that he was no off duty at our
location. I forwarded the information to our auditors. They went in to the
terminal, and because they had a time marker for the guy, plus the photocopies
I took of his log, he was one of the drivers whose records they checked. He
showed himself off duty in WV and the same time that I gave him a ticket in
Ontario.