Sounds like being a pump operator is not the job for you. I tell the operators before I hire them figure on 70 to 80 hr weeks if you can't handle that then go work at some please that more fits your personal needs.

Suck it up and do your job

love my 60 hours a week and my take home pay of 1800.00 he whom dont like it go work at burger king for 7.75

This is why I started my own bussiness.. Now I decide myself how much I work.. And if I get hired to drive a bad maintained pump I can think.... Not my problem.. I'm just hired in...

You see I always have the company I work for in my hart.. Like its a bit my company too.. And then I start to irritate myself when I see things that are badly organized or maintained etc.. So now I work for my own company and thats the company I go for.. What my customers do I don't care.. I just do what they pay me for and take good care of my own company.. It saved me from a lot of dissatisfaction..

I don't think you are gona win this battle. Its better you change yourself than try to change the industry. Most pumpers I know actualy want the hours.. So if no one backs you up you have no chance...

i wish i was getting 60 or more hours a week. we are so slow i am barely getting my 40.

thank you dipstick and good luck bisley as a ready mix driver

try being a dispatch man, a pump tech , boom operator , line pump operator and bill collector !!!! its a pain at times but id rather do this than sit on my ass all day watching springer (i miss that show made me feel good about my life)

Well if you break dot rules and have an accident plan on it being your fault. Now if the ccompany forces you to work I.E. threatens your job then you got some leverage.  14 hrs a day max, with 10 hrs off before your next shift. No more than 70 hrs in a 7 day work week.er DOT. 

its 12 hours max if you are within 150 miles, and do not keep a road log (Exempt)

your right 80 hours is too much when do we stop

Block don't have a good reason because he is the problem.  And he won't respond to you Bisley because he is a coward!  One question.......ever meet anyone on their death bead wishing to work one more day?

as long as the DOT does not adress these grey areas, and possible new, updated regulations will need to be engorced, otherwise these 80hrs weeks will continue. maybe with the electrconic logbooks we will see a change

Bisley , I am with you, and I do everything in my power not to work guys over 14 hours a day, I have in my career worked 38 hours straight on a boom, and have went 7 days on less than 12 hours of sleep when I was running a 58m all over the southeast, I know what a toll this took on my body, as a athlete I felt my health slipping, so I do my best not to do this to my operators, but at times there just isn't anyways around it , but to make it common place , to me shows no respect for your employees, every now and then is fine but everyday , week after week, month after month, is not acceptable.