I have to take a rental to pick up a power unit.

Driving? On duty not driving? Or not logged?

DOT rules (11 hour) apply, or no?

I should mention that I'm salaried, so miles don't matter.

1st: Can I be nosey and ask who are you hiring on with? Curious here.

The answer is read closely

1) If you get to your destination and take a 10 hour break; you do not have to log the time. It can be logged as off duty. Make a comment in the remark section stating you drove rent a car to pick up truck.
2) If you don't take a 10 hour break then you must log it as on-duty not driving.

Question 24: If a driver is transported by automobile from the point of a breakdown to a terminal, and then dispatched on another run, how is the time spent in the automobile entered on the record of duty status? How is the time entered if the driver goes off-duty once he reaches the terminal?

Guidance: The time spent in the automobile would be on-duty (not driving) if dispatched on another run once he/she reaches the terminal, and off-duty if he/she is given 8 consecutive hours off-duty upon reaching the terminal

Now it says 8 hours, but I believe they may have forgotten to change that number to a 10 when they updated the rules. I could be wrong on that, but to be safe I would do a 10 hour break.

Oh and being paid does not always mean you need to log it on line 3 or 4.
Just to make sure you know that. I could pay you to sleep if I want (wow wouldn't that be nice )

Logs:

I work for SNI.

Ok thanks. Did you understand how to log it?

Pretty much this is the same type of rule that the truck transporters work under when they fly back from a delivery. It all depends on how you use the break time to make it work.

Sorry about this off-topic post, LogsRus. I have been paid to sleep, but you may think of it as a layover. Whenever Tri-State dispatched a team with an oversized load, the drivers had to stop during the night. We were paid for delay enroute - darkness. We were also paid for the first eight hours of delay for snow and ice. We slept in a motel before proceding with chains, and got paid by the hour. Needless to say, this all ended with the strike of 1970.

yes, I understood. Thank you, Logs.
Now, if you could just unfreeze the highways in the midwest ...

Yeah that is what I was saying and I know some drivers do get paid while they sleep (detention time) if the drivers uses their time wisely
I know some trucking companies pay drivers for their days they are not driving. This is why DOT states pay doesn't really mean you must log it

I have plenty of hot air (maybe Medicinman and Notarp can help) to blow that way. I AM BLOWING! Oh it is melting you say?