food for a car trip 2590salgud 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...
Karen
And most of them start with "Once upon a time " :-) They have set amounts of time that they enter for various things, like 15 minutes for their pre trip. They don't count the on duty time when they stop for fuel. There are a lot of places they can go without paying any tolls, and on road enforcement staff have no way of verifying that they stopped for fuel if they don't show the receipts.
I once had a driver who was hauling pre fab concrete to a building site in NYC. He drive down , about 10-12 hours from here, went to the sleeper berth for 8 hours and then drove back. Among his receipts half dozen toll tickets for the bridges around NYC and most of them were issued during the time that he indicated he was in the sleeper berth sleeping. When he came to court to fight the charge he had an interesting story about how he delivered to a union job site and he had to climb into the sleeper berth while a union driver drove his truck around the city to make the delivery.
The JP was in a bind, saying that it was the driver's word against mine (my evidence) but even though she thought he was lying, she had to take his word for it.
