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Memphis and West Memphis, the workday, the clock is running down
Interstate 40, or Hernando de Soto, without pause.”
Bridge. Closing one bridge would force To increase efficiency, the paper
extra traffic onto the I-40 six-lane suggests eliminating 60 minutes per day
bridge, which is still undergoing seis- from loading and unloading times. The
mic retrofitting work. study by BB&T found that drivers spent
an average of 108 minutes at the ship-
J.B. hunT reLeases whiTe per and receiver, not counting appoint-
paper On Driver efficiency ment time.
Barriers By eliminating just 30 minutes
J.B. Hunt released a white paper at the shipper and 30 minutes at the
directed at shippers and receivers on the receiver, a single driver could remain
full extent of the wasted time drivers on the road for an extra hour each
spend as a result of inefficient shipping day, equivalent to 50 miles per day, or
and receiving practices. 12,500 miles per year.
The paper cites a BB&T study The paper prompts shippers and
that says out of the 11 daily driving receivers to “Think of a driver’s time as aTa naMes new DirecTOr
hours, or 660 minutes, allowed by the that of an hourglass, a perishable com- Of safeTy services anD
FMCSA’s Hours of Service regulations, modity which is continually diminish- execuTive assisTanT
only an average of 390 minutes are ing. Whereas in the past a driver could, David O’Neal has been named
spent behind the wheel. Other time- much like a stopwatch, start or stop his the director of safety services of the
consuming activities include empty or her clock depending on the activity, a Arkansas Trucking Association after the
driving time, time waiting on inflexible driver today cannot log time waiting at Arkansas Highway Commission award-
appointments and time spent at the a shipper location or making a delivery ed the association with funds from the
shipper or receiver location for loading as “off duty.” Once a driver begins his Arkansas Commerical Truck Safety and
and unloading. or her safety check at the start of the 

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