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What is the limit?
OTR is 11 hrs driving with a 10 hr break called 11/14 rule. Local drivers can work longer hours by being on the clock.
They look like Florida fans to me...
I'm guessing it's a sleep safety thing
Yea, seems like every time there’s a bad accident involving big trucks they add new regulations. The actions of a few affects the rest of us!
Can only assume at the collegiate affiliation with this one but the state suggests her husband has a drawer full of cut off jean shorts...
Also, bonus points for potential static discharge.
The fix to the "mess" is actually happening and it just proves my point. The EPA has relaxed fuel blend mandates so more gas can get out quickly. I'm sure there are federal restrictions on additional pipelines to service the east coast from Texas. My guess is Colonial is more of a monopoly almost acting as a public utility. Competition and redundancy would prevent a single pipeline failure from being catastrophic.
Government regulations are often the source of the problems that liberals blame on business. Then liberals clamor for the same government to come and fix the problem it created.
Keith Saxon, Sixty hours in seven or seventy hours in eight as I recall it.
Yalemeister: I wouldn't be so quick to criticize CPL for not doing it's job. All large companies invest heavily in Cyber protection. Can they block all attempts? No
And I would match any private sector engineer against a public-sector beaurocrat. Look, private-public relationships exists for many situations, including cyber security.
In my life, I've seen the '70s gas shortage thru the eyes of a gasoline attendant at a company-owned gas station on the Illinois Tollway. And get this: We were represented employees. Crazy. I was also employed as an Accountant, Auditor, Asst. Terminal Mgr. (Fairfax, Va. light oil terminal) and finally, nine years as a retail mgr. -- company owned service stations in the Atlanta area. I've seen it all.
After returning to college, I went on to work as a corporate Accountant for one of those "majors". And, speaking of majors, it was Exxon, Amoco, Texaco, Chevron, as I recall it, that made it all possible. In the 1950's all gasoline delivered to east coast hubs was handled by tankers and barges -- a longer and less efficient way to handle the growing demand for gasoline. But that's all we had.
Enter the dream: creating one of the greatest engineering and construction marvels. The Colonial pipeline. Far safer than barge due to the fact that leaks or spills are easier to control on land, than on the water. Lowered transportation costs and led to more reliable deliveries. When everything was delivered by barge, you had numerous delays and supply disruptions due to weather, especially during hurricane season.
Safety, reduced costs, and greater reliability. This was a huge accomplishment. Even after the pipeline was built, companies still had to spend millions more just to fill up the pipelines before one drop of gasoline was loaded onto a tanker truck. Think about it: two pipelines about 2000-2500 miles long and about 28" in diameter. Measured in barrels (42 us gallons) and known as linefill, there were additional costs for planning, zoning, and logistics to build the numerous storage and loading facilities: Doraville, Fairfax, Greensboro (?), and Richmond, to name a few.
Colonial is not the ONLY pipeline. 20 miles East of me in Pascagoula is a Chevron refinery that is tapped into the Plantation pipeline not to mention the Marine routes. No gas lines down here just rising prices all this shortage talk is media driven, sheepels like sheep are just st00pid
Just want to leave this advice here if it continues to get bad....
dont try siphoning gas with a cut up garden hose. Tried it once when I was younger trying to get gas from an old farm truck for a dirt bike.
it’s not like how the movies portrays it and I got more in my nose/throat than the bike
the headache isn’t worth it
Yes manage a trucking company to and the 14 hour on duty is a hard rule for our company.
Not political, just factual statement here. Many people are choosing not to come back to work because of the $600 unemployment along with other benefits. They may have been legitimately unemployed to start this pandemic but now they milking. Need the Matt Luke Meme. So many businesses observe are short handed. Talking to one guy today that starts people at $20 per hour and escalates them to $22 per hit by year two. They also make overtime. Short staffed. I hope Georgia joins South Carolina in opting out.
There is no $600 unemployment anymore. It's down to $300
Incredible, nearly everything you've said is wrong. Points for imagination though.
A old sign has had to be reinstated at Knoxville gas stations...
Yea,local drivers can work as many hours as they want to. They can only drive for 11 hours then must take a 10 hour break before driving again. But they can work unlimited hours in the week as long as they are on the clock. That’s who would be delivering the fuel to the public. OTR drivers can only work 70 in a week without a 34 hour restart!