what they should is go back to the old rules they worked for several years. until someone got a bug up their butt. i was able to make a half way decent living. get ample sleep. and all round better off than i am now with somebody's not so bright idea!

This is (PURE "D" HORSE CRAP) I have driven at night now for several years now and find that i am more productive and all round safer at night than during the day when all those who think they know how to drive but could not drive their way out of a paper bag with a map! it all depends on a persons  sleeping rhythm is. i can't sleep at night if i try all i do is toss and turn all night along.

  So now can you tell me what to do with my dedicated run. Five hundred seventy miles a night, six nights a week. There is more Air Freight run at night, than you would ever believe. Any other driving job to be found will barely pay the bills nowadays!!

Well folks, we are just targets in the water regulatory waters. The shippers could care less. They will tell the carriers guess you better hire more drivers. OK you hire more drivers, that thins out opportunity for the drivers you already have and they can't make a living because of fewer loads... sombody is over thinking this... If yoiu don't like driving, I hear you can get a government job they are hiring....

It's not only the amount of sleep, it also about that reefer running all night next to your truck or about lot lizards banging on the door or quaalcom messages, etc.  I understand the scientific method of hypothesis, experimentation, etc., but what I've learned about tired driving in 15 years is that it's an individual thing.  One size doesn't fit all.  Old guys don't need as much sleep.  Old guys have to pee more frequently at night.  It is impossible to create a rule that is beneficial to all.  Ask the drivers.  My two cents:  a regular schedule with regular hours will help.  Running in bad weather/heavy traffic tires me out more than running on the interstate west of the Mississippi in good weather. 

How many MILLIONS of dollars has been spent to come to the conclusion that DAYTIME SLEEP isnt the best for Drivers, WASTE OF TAXPAYER DOLLARS...Why not try a Novel Idea, ASK DRIVERS...not just one type of driver but all drivers.....you think that the only people who know this are some guys in a white coat locked in a lab in Switzerland or ??? all running around Ja Ja Daytime Szleep dats the best for the Tezt szubjects....WASTE OF MONEY AND TIME...

Good. Now we might get a little movment on a realistic work day clock instead of the current 14 hour rule that  forces drivers into block sleeping times.