New over-the-road (OTR) trucks have sleeper berths that have every conceivable luxury that a small apartment might have. Furthermore, truck driver compensation has gone up annually by double ...

According to a preliminary investigation, a blue Freightliner box truck was traveling westbound when the driver ... was asleep in the sleeper berth at the time of the crash and sustained fatal ...

Truck drivers working in teams must be compensated ... a team driver should be compensated for time back in the sleeper berth that isn’t part of the eight hours of sleep time required under ...

the nature of these activities is restricted by the drivers’ presence in the sleeper berth of a moving truck — a small space, containing only some basic living essentials, that drivers cannot ...

The dispute before the court revolved around what constitutes truck drivers being "off-duty," and whether or not the time drivers spend in the sleeper berth is compensable work under the Fair ...

Driver busted with $1M in marijuana in sleeper in Tennessee The West Tennessee Drug Task Force last week caught a truck driver with more than $1 million worth of marijuana in the sleeper berth of ...

transport truck drivers are registered as commercial vehicles and are booked into sleeper cabins, also called berths, to get the required rest needed after a long drive and before another.

They dictate that when commercial truck drivers enter a sleeper berth, time spent there cannot be interrupted if it is to count toward the 10 hours of required off-duty time per day. Beaty’s ...

Per Department of Transportation rules, commercial truck drivers can be on duty for 14 hours of a 24-hour period. When they enter a vehicle’s sleeper berth, time spent there cannot be ...

Inside the sleeper berth in the cabin ... Or sign-in if you have an account. Two Ontario truck drivers were arrested on an Arizona highway after a state trooper stopped their 18-wheeler over ...

Veteran owner-operator truck driver Gary Buchs says that splitting sleeper berth time might have some advantages, but frankly he finds it pretty darn confusing. “I use the 8/2 split a lot ...