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.
>
> When I was young, my first wife and I drove a number of times from
> Tucson to New Jersey, both ways, and did it straight through, about 32
> to 34 hours. No problem, never had a serious incident. If you're scared
> to drive like that, you probably can't and shouldn't. We did it just
> fine, many times. But "horrendous risk" is a horrendous overstatement.
> Some risk, yes. But if you don't like taking risks, I suggest you sell
> your car. Just pulling out of the driveway is a risk.

Truckers keep a log that Highway Patrol and Weigh Station can audit at
anytime. They are not supposed to drive x amount of time without x
amount of hours. Toll time stamps, weigh station time stamps, etc.,
validate their time frame claim.

Karen