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"It may be concluded from the results of this research that a significant relationship exists between job change rate and crash involvement," the FMCSA report said. "There is evidence that drivers, whose (verified) employment history indicates that they have averaged more than two jobs with different carriers each year for a period of two years or more deserve special scrutiny during the hiring process to determine whether there are mitigating circumstances that have placed the individual in an increased-risk category."
Being rational human beings, drivers do not record the hours for which they are not paid, so that they can drive more hours for which they are paid. Motor carrier management, knowing that drivers do not record their non-driving hours, heap as many such hours on their drivers as they possibly can. To please shippers, motor carrier management routinely requires its drivers to wait, unload, and load at the shipper's warehouses at no cost to the shipper. After a day of such work they are expected to drive for 10 hours or until they can't stay awake any longer. Thus, in addition to not paying them overtime, and requiring them to work the maximum hours they are legally able, motor carriers routinely require them to work the maximum number of hours they are physically able, and if a tight delivery schedule requires it--more. And there is not a thing drivers can do about it - unless they want to cut their own paychecks by a third by recording their non-driving work.
If driver's earnings are cut by one-third, so are their employer's. Motor carriers will lose around 30% of their revenue, or about $1,500 per week for each driver that actually records the loading, unloading, and waiting work that he performs as part of his job. With so much at stake, claims by motor carriers that they don't know that their drivers routinely lie on their logs is absurd. In the most subtle ways (and sometimes not so subtle), employers require drivers to falsify their logbooks by understating their non-driving work as part of their duties. Usually, that requires little more than letting a novice driver compare his small paycheck to those of seasoned drivers and figure out the reason for the difference - and how to cure it - with their help. When driver loading times suddenly fall from 3-5 hours to 15 minutes, management responds with a wink and a smile.