Is 10 Hour Break Enough
Truck drivers and FMCSA share opposing views on this topic. Many drivers hold that the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration's decision regarding mandatory 10-hour service break is bad and they state reasons for their own reasoning in this matter.
Namely, truckers argue that the mandated 10-hour break doesn’t mean 10 hours of sleep:
- Drivers will log their break when they are loading or unloading a shipment and sometimes this can take as long as several hours.
- For truckers to grab a meal might take an hour or so.
- Then there is time taken to bathe and maintain personal hygiene.
- When it is all said and done, that mandatory 10 hours can easily translate into only six hours (or even less) of actual sleep.