Noremac:
cooper1203, if I recall the forums may have suggested to you the two 30s approach because sometimes you were getting back after 6 hours but before 9 having only taken a 15 and obviously this would flag up as insufficient breaks if you just finish.However, taking the 30 very early on in a long shift is the wrong approach as you would inevitably still have to break twice more and one of these later breaks would probably need to be a 30 to reset your driving.
As a suggestion, perhaps if you know it is going to be a long shift, either delay the first 30 or split the morning rest into two 15s (separated by a few hours), so that you are breaking the day up more.
I agree that is what screwed my breaks up. However thinking i had a fairly easy day knowing they had 2 drivers over and everything planned with 4-5 drops as a second run i was confident i was ok as far as fitting breaks in. Unfortunately my first drop on the second run was four 250 litre barrels of oil on a single pallet and i dropped them off the tail lift. The time lost putting them back on the truck and taking them back to the depot and tipping them was the death nail.