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I'm tired of this story and stories with this slant to it. Jeg er lei av denne historien og historier med dette synspunkt til det. Truckers win? Truckers vinne? Last time I checked Teamsters,  PATT, CRASH and Public Citizen do not represent truck drivers in America. Sist gang jeg sjekket Teamsters, Patt, CRASH and Public Citizen representerer ikke lastebilsjåfører i Amerika. Teamsters have a union that represent some drivers at a few companies. Teamsters har en forening som representerer noen drivere på noen selskaper. They don't have the membership or the power they used to have. De har ikke medlemskap eller makt de pleide å ha.

Truckers win in federal court Truckers seier i føderal domstol
The rules, imposed in December, were supported by the trucking industry but opposed by safety advocates and the truckers' union. Reglene innførte i desember, ble støttet av lastebil industrien, men motstand fra miljø talsmenn og Truckers 'Union. Eugenia Gratto, spokeswoman for the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, said the decision by the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia was a victory for workers and especially for the drivers. Eugenia Gratto, talskvinne for International Brotherhood of Teamsters, mener avgjørelsen av US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia var en seier for arbeidere og særlig for driverne.

I know and have heard from a lot of drivers that like the new rules. Jeg vet og har hørt fra mange drivere som liker de nye reglene. I (and others) think that we are forced to get more rest and it is harder to get 'creative' with your logbook. Jeg (og andre) tror at vi er nødt til å få mer hvile og det er vanskeligere å få "kreative" med loggboken din.

After 45 days or maybe longer depending on delaying tactics by FMCSA we go back to the old rules. Etter 45 dager eller kanskje lenger avhengig forsinkelsestaktikken av FMCSA vi går tilbake til de gamle reglene. I can only drive for 10 hours straight and have to take an 8 hour break instead of the new 10 hour break. Jeg kan bare kjøre i 10 timer direkte, og må ta en 8 timers pause i stedet for den nye 10 timers pause. Try driving 10-8-10-8 for a few days cross country. Prøv kjører 10-8-10-8 for et par dager langrenn. You're eating and showering during the time you're supposed to be sleeping. Du spiser og dusjer i den tiden du skal sove. You can say that we don't have to drive like that, but there are several companies and brokers that schedule their delivery times so you have to drive like that. Du kan si at vi ikke trenger å kjøre sånn, men det er flere selskaper og meglere som planlegger sine leveringstider, så du må kjøre slik. Think about that this summer as you're driving down the highway with the kids on vacation. Tenk at denne sommeren som du kjører nedover motorveien med barna på ferie. And this ruling was for the drivers? Og denne dommen var for driverne? PATT and CRASH have their own agenda of shutting down the entire industry, by only allowing drivers on the road for 8 hours and not at night. Patt og CRASH har sin egen agenda en nedleggelse av hele bransjen, ved å kun tillate sjåfører på veien i 8 timer og ikke om natten. The Teamsters are probably only involved because the fewer hours their drivers are allowed to drive means that those companies have to hire more drivers to cover those routes, which means more union members and more union dues. De Teamsters er trolig bare involvert fordi færre timer sine drivere er lov til å kjøre betyr at disse bedriftene må ansette flere sjåfører for å dekke disse rutene, noe som betyr mer union medlemmer og mer union kontingent.

The compromise the government came up, I thought was a good deal. Kompromisset regjeringen kom opp, trodde jeg var en god avtale. The actual work day was cut from 15 to 14 hours a day. Selve arbeidsdagen var kuttet 15 til 14 timer i døgnet. And the big stumbling block was that once your day started, you had to stop driving after 14 hours. Og den store snublestein var at når dagen startet, hadde du stoppe kjøring etter 14 timer. No matter when or how many breaks you took. Uansett når eller hvor mange pauser du tok. Warehouses that took advantage of drivers for free labor loading and unloading their trucks had to schedule their trucks more efficiently and get those drivers out of there and on the road. Næringslokaler som dro fordel av drivere gratis arbeidskraft lasting og lossing deres lastebiler måtte planlegge sine lastebiler mer effektivt og få disse driverne ut av det og på veien. That was great. That was great. Companies started charging for detention. Selskaper startet lading for forvaring. It was supposed to fix the undocumented time that drivers spend on docks. Det skulle fastsette udokumenterte tiden at sjåfører bruker på havna. It did a little, there were still times you had to get creative, but it was starting to change for the better. Det gjorde litt, var det fremdeles ganger du måtte gjøre noe kreativt, men det var i ferd med å endres til det bedre.

The court sided with the groups, saying the administration “cited absolutely no studies in support” of its argument that reducing the amount of time drivers were eligible to drive would compensate for the increase in driving time. Retten ensidig med gruppene, sier administrasjonen "nevnes absolutt ingen studier i støtte" av argumentet sitt om at å redusere mengden av tid sjåførene var kvalifisert til å kjøre vil kompensere for økningen i kjøretid.

How about common sense? Hva med sunn fornuft? How about all the hearings with industry AND DRIVERS! Hva med alle høringer med næringen og drivere! Drivers had a lot of input in the process. Drivere hadde mange innspill i prosessen.

Joan Claybrook, president of the consumer advocacy group Public Citizen, which sued over the rules, said the rule changes were made to benefit the trucking industry. Joan Claybrook, president for forbrukeren advokatvirksomhet gruppen Public Citizen, som saksøkte over reglene, sier regelen endringer ble gjort til fordel for lastebil industrien.

What's good for the industry is good for drivers. Hva er bra for bransjen er bra for sjåførene. When I'm on the road, I want to be able to work, not be stranded at some truck stop clear across the country. Når jeg er på vei, vil jeg kunne jobbe, ikke bli strandet på en truck stop klare over hele landet. Rates were being raised partly because of the new rules and teams were in demand to move freight without having to worry about the new rules. Priser ble reist delvis på grunn av de nye reglene og lagene var i etterspørselen for å flytte gods uten å måtte bekymre seg om de nye reglene. (Teams never run out of hours under any rules.) (Teams aldri gå ut av timer under noen regler.)

Instead of keeping these rules till they come up with something better, we have to go back to the old ones. I stedet for å holde disse reglene før de kommer opp med noe bedre, må vi gå tilbake til de gamle. Every company, the entire industry spent millions converting software that audits logbooks and educating drivers and staff on the new rules. Hver bedrift, hele industrien brukt millioner på å konvertere programvaren som revisjoner logbooks og utdanning av sjåfører og ansatte på de nye reglene. I really hope FMCSA comes up with something and we stay the course and at least give the new rules a chance. Jeg håper virkelig FMCSA kommer opp med noe, og vi holde kurset og minst gi de nye reglene en sjanse.

Originally posted 2008-08-21 03:30:00. Opprinnelig postet 2008-08-21 03:30:00.