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lyrics:
so u could get around 
but it’s been going south 
and i know a better way 
said u got a drought 
so i led u to the well 
and u doubted it to my face 

and i couldn’t tell u what i’m thinking 
there’s to many answers wrong 
i’m not finna lie, u know i been drinking 
the sun aint gna make me stop 

and she’s too nice to me 
you’re getting on my good half 
i can’t stand the way i feel so good around you

but it’s said and done
u went in a hole now 
so what’s the point in crawling out of it 
it’s getting easier and easier to live
but still it persists 
so what do u miss 
it’s only a kiss 
but u just wanna quit before u know what it is 
falling in the abyss
crawling back in the pit
i’m hoping u stick around 
i hope u listen to this

i know my love is a fist 

eyes open real wide
but not as wide as my arms
i hope u realize 
i wanna miss ur bite mark

and i wish i could hit you
i’m not strong enough for that so i’ll js cry
ball it up in a tissue
bitch i’m going with u
but i need an answer now

when u say it’s not my fault 
it’s too hard to believe it 
i can’t get enough 
i’m an addict for it 
tears me into pieces (i know)
swallowing nails and spitting out screws 
it only entails what i know 
living in hell feeling swell around u
but i been waiting for u, what do i know

she’s so mean to me
she’s getting on my good half 
i can’t stand the way i feel so good around u
and it’s already over 

but it’s said and done
u went in a hole now
so what’s the point in crawling out of it?
it’s getting easier and easier to live
and still it persists 
so what do u miss 
it’s only a kiss 
but u just wanna quit b4 u know what it is
falling in the abyss
crawling back in ur pit
i’m hoping u stick around 
ik my love is a fist

El Fisto

How might truckers get back a measure of flexibility in the hours of service rules, such as that enjoyed by so many owner-operators of past generations? That is, the ability to split the 10-hour required rest period into two periods of any length they want. That’s the option favored by a whopping 88% of readers who responded to Overdrive polling around the subject this time last year, with results published earlier in the year showing most readers wanted the ability just to split as they saw fit, fundamentally. 

Since the 14-hour duty window came into play more than two decades ago, well before the time of electronic logging device mandate's implementation in 2017, greater duty-window and/or rest period flexibility has been owner-operators' cardinal ask of regulators when it comes to the hours of service. 

After trucker appreciation week last week, we might see a path forward to it. In this Overdrive Radio edition, Chief Editor Todd Dills and Matt Cole break down the details of the DOT and FMCSA's announcement to start truck appreciation week last week of two proposed pilot programs to fully test two different options for split flexibility. 

It’s not often we start the annual appreciation week with something other than a free soda at a truck stop or other deal from a vendor or supplier to write about. Yet that was the case for Cole last week Monday, when DOT announced formal proposals to conduct those safety-efficacy studies. One's the split-as-you-see fit option of up to 5/5-hour sleeper splits, the other a daily up-to-three-hour pause button, spot to speak, for the 14-hour clock. 

The news wasn't entirely unexpected, nontheless. The formal proposals had been teased back in June as part of what the DOT called a “Pro Trucker” package of efforts. The formal proposals open up a comment period on how regulators might set up and conduct the programs, each of which will be open to more than 250 drivers to participate: https://www.overdriveonline.com/hours-of-service/article/15755537/what-fmcsas-hoursofservice-flexibility-pilot-programs-could-look-like

We’re certainly months out from interested participants being able to apply to take part, and given each test could take years to bring to fruition, it could be quite some time before any subsequent regulatory action is taken. That is, unless another federal body pushes the ball more quickly forward, as Cole puts it in the podcast, and "Congress were to get involved." 

Absent Congressional directive to take regulatory action, further hours flexibilities for all drivers aren’t likely in the cards before the next decade rolls around after these studies conclude -- depending on results, of course. That timeline takes us into whatever administration follows the current one.

"Personally I don't see this as necessarily a partisan issue," said Cole. "If a Democratic Administration were to come in" come 2029, he felt FMCSA wouldn't be likely to wholesale abandon work put into potential new flexibilities. After all, some of groundwork for the 2020 split-sleeper enhancements was put in under the Obama administration. 

If these two studies show positive or even neutral safety impacts for participating truckers, it might really get things moving toward change for the next administration's FMCSA.

Where to read and comment on the proposals, through mid-November: **Split-sleeper program: https://www.regulations.gov/document/FMCSA-2025-0193-0001 
**Split-duty program: https://www.regulations.gov/document/FMCSA-2025-0194-0001

More on the 2020 split-sleeper change, which itself offered a boost in duty-pause and split flexibility: https://www.overdriveonline.com/partners-in-business/safety-compliance/video/15737159/significant-hos-change-fmcsas-2020-splitsleeper-provisions

Sleeper berth: Will truckers be able to split as they see fit? FMCSA opens potential path forward

i know im not the one

Chains (Prod. 3DOT)

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Dm for feats down for anything
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The Overdrive Radio podcast is produced by Overdrive magazine, the Voice of the American Trucker for 60-plus years. Host Todd Dills -- with a supporting cast among Overdrive editors, contributors and others -- presents owner-operator business leading lights, interviews with extraordinary independent truckers and small fleet owners, and plenty in the way of trucking business and regulatory news and views. Access an archive of all episodes of Overdrive Radio going back more than a decade via this link: http://overdriveonline.com/overdrive-radio

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