New 30 minute break guidelines?

Earlier this week my Qualcomm did an update and shortly after that I started noticing some strange, inconvenient and very annoying behavior. Several times after getting time back after a half hour off duty period, my clock would "reset" to what I had at the begin of that period. It also cut my logged on duty time (pretrip, loading/unloading, etc) down to 1 minute and added the rest to my drive line. Personally I could care less about the on duty occurrences but cutting my half hour break short by 1 minute (as if it never happened) could be problematic, to say the least.

The 3rd time this happened it really screwed me and I had to call my safety manager and have him fix it. About an hour later there was a fleetwide message explaining that new FMCSA guidelines required that the vehicle be off for at least 5 minutes at the end of the 30 minute period for it to count as a 30 minute "break".

Has anyone else experienced this and what exactly is the point of all this?

 

Agreed but in terms of the movement of the vehicle, this seems to be how the Qualcomm is now reading things. There was also something about the vehicle being off for 5 minutes prior to any off duty driving but that doesn't really affect me since I rarely use it.

 

The way it was described to be was the last 5 of the 30 so from 25 to 30 the vehicle needs to be off.

Also I didn't see this thread before I posted this:

http://www.thetruckersreport.com/tr...on-for-those-of-you-on-qualcomm-elogs.299710/

 

9

I thought the same thing when I first read the message and considering it takes my box 5 minutes to load..... 40 minutes of wasted time.

 

Of course they will and probably bring you some coffee.