This just in: All drivers who have the middle name Leroy are exempt of the 30 minute break. Also, On Tuesdays and Saturdays in May, June and July, anyone hauling bacon products are exempt. Oh yeah, let’s not forget, during the summer solstice, under the light of a blue moon, when there are unicorns present, anyone who has brown eyes is also exempt. This could all possibly be a filthy lie, but who knows? The exemptions keep on coming, folks.
Good miners know the mountain will take only so many holes before it collapses on them. Trolls couldn’t care less and destroy the mountain in spite of themselves.Puh-leeeeeez.
You know why the FMCSA is granting all these exemptions? Because the 30 minute break rule is stupid. Also, they failed to take into consideration the other regs they’ve put into place, before piling more on top. How safe does it seem to have a bunch of knuckleheads who can’t remember what regulation says what before they put another one in place?
Let’s not forget that they will likely exempt the hours of service altogether for the fireworks haulers during the last week of June and the first week of July. Because we all know how fireworks are completely safe and there’s probably no reason at all for the drivers to be well rested and within their HOS.
The trucking industry is a mountain, and the FMCSA is mining this mountain to create revenue and justify their jobs. Good miners know the mountain will only take so many holes before it falls on them and crushes them to death. Trolls couldn’t care less and destroy the mountain in spite of themselves. Because they’re trolls.
Rules and regulations are absolutely necessary. There’s not a professional driver on the road who wouldn’t agree with that wholeheartedly. Common sense dictates if you give the people who are actually doing the job the right to do it to their best ability, the job will be done well.
Oh, wait. I said common sense. Therein lies the problem. Even if there is a trace of common sense in Washington, you’d need three coon dogs and a Geiger counter to find it. I still believe in Bigfoot, but I’m confounded by the complete lack of experience regarding the profession being regulated. I never understood why the surgeon general has to be a doctor, the attorney general has to be an attorney, but the head of the FMCSA doesn’t even have to hold a driver’s license. How does that make sense?
