One Of The Things I Love About Trucking

So as title says, one of the things I love about trucking is that I can finally help disaster areas like Houston TX in recovering and rebuilding, I may not be able to send money or get on a boat and help people to safety, (as much as I would love to do that) I can help in my own way, by trucking in freight and emergency supplies, I love this lifestyle so much because of that, first thing I did after my 34 reset on the 28th was tell my dispatcher I wanted to help, she set me up with a dedicated account here in Houston as a temp so I could help, I pushed my home time back and drove with haste down to Huston from Dallas. Well as much haste as the speed limit and HoS would allow anyway, I'd like to thank everyone here at TT for giving me the Information I needed to pass my cdl tests and be able to do this

Good for you, John! Stay safe and God bless. Colin K.

Sadly it's in times of great logistics needs surrounding a natural disasters that drivers are treated with more respect overall.

Yes in times like this, for FEMA loads, HOS do not apply and critical loads of water and food get priority.

I'm not doing FEMA loads this time as it's not a place for trainees,, but I truly love driving each and every day out there and enjoy training new drivers for my company as well.

Stay safe and be careful. Keep stocked on supplies for yourself and God bless you for being willing to help out in this major way.

I'm very proud of you.

Thank you :) means alot to me to see you say that.

Sadly it's in times of great logistics needs surrounding a natural disasters that drivers are treated with more respect overall.

Yes in times like this, for FEMA loads, HOS do not apply and critical loads of water and food get priority.

I'm not doing FEMA loads this time as it's not a place for trainees,, but I truly love driving each and every day out there and enjoy training new drivers for my company as well.

Stay safe and be careful. Keep stocked on supplies for yourself and God bless you for being willing to help out in this major way.

I'm very proud of you.

Nice job John, way to go. Your efforts will be much appreciated, I'm sure.

Hey that's awesome John!

I agree wholeheartedly. Trucking is one of those jobs that you can feel proud of because you truly are the lifeblood of our economy. We do so much to help make people's lives very easy and convenient. We help businesses grow, houses get built, and in times of need we bring relief.

Glad you're getting the opportunity to help out down there. Best of luck to you!

Regarding the hos , (please verify, I'm not certain) but my information suggests dot suspended hos rules for Texas relief drivers.

It means alot to me to be down here helping and it also means alot from the replies on here thank you agian everyone :) And bret I had a question for you, do you still drive? It's one I've had for a while now

And bret I had a question for you, do you still drive?

Nope, I retired after 15 years of driving. I felt at that point I had experienced about all that life had to offer in that realm so I wanted to move on to new things that I couldn't do while driving, like small scale farming and hobbies that take extensive amounts of time like hiking and rock climbing and snowboarding and such.

Regarding the hos , (please verify, I'm not certain) but my information suggests dot suspended hos rules for Texas relief drivers.

I don't know complete details. From what I've seen is that a few rules and regs including HOS have been suspended for 26 states because of Harvey's fall out. What I've seen only applies to fuels such as; gasoline, kerosene, propane, etc. If I find the news article I read I'll post it. It was on my news feed, didn't bother digging to deep since it doesn't effect me. I'm not out there just yet. I'm still trying to figure out how to update my profile and make sure I have what I need for my learnings.

Also, +1 million awesome points to all those going down to help out.