HOS in an Emergency

You do not need to log if your not loaded. Your not going to a place to get loaded or looking for work, Your going home! I would log this off duty and not worry

 

lol which part of your own statement dont you understand? you don't need a log.....but i would log it off duty?...

lmao...

You do need a log, and you can log off duty for personal conveince, if you are not dispatched under a load, and you are not relocating to get a load. but the catch is you have to go back to where you started your off duty driving in order for it to be legal.

one cannot log pc, go home, then get a dispatch to go pick up like 10 miles from the house this would violate the pc rule.

you need a log, and one needs to log what they are doing whether or not it is for pc, or other. (Unless you are within 100 mile air radius and have at least a time card, or something written with times in it that you can show for proof). other than that one needs a log book.

 

You do not need to go back to where you came from. If you went home off duty and the next day got a dispatch 10 miles away would you drive 50 miles in the wrong direction?

 

ok well you explain that to a dot officer and see how far that would get....I would advise before you give advise on something you don't know about don't do it in the first place.

here is some reading for you to help further your understanding of the rules and if you need more reading, or easier to understand reading let me know and I will be sure to post it as there is plenty of info on this particular subject.

if you have problems with understanding what you have read just ask.....you give bad advise and if you get a ticket you sure deserve it....read link below....



http://www.thetruckersreport.com/tr...ations/174141-personal-conveyance-thread.html


https://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=455543408227

http://www.thetruckersreport.com/tr...ations/174141-personal-conveyance-thread.html



now what do you have to say?

 

lol going home isn't for buisness purpose. I'm done here. It's legal to go home off duty not under dispatch and not intentionally repositioning for freight/buisness purposes.

 

that is the part you are not getting and so therefore not understanding....

i would agree going home is ok, but if you don't go back to where you started your pc then you are repositioning.

for example....

you leave point A and goto point B (ok legal)
next day or week later you go from Point B to Point C (not legal)

you need to go from Point A to Point B, then from Point B back to Point A, if you don't then you are considered to be repositioning, and repositioning on PC is not legal. you done here because you won't admit your wrong, and will not read to understand you are wrong. but hey, who cares its your license do what you want....

Next posting we see will be, I got a ticket for using PC.....

 

The thread is not about being 2000 miles away, and bouncing home in 35-40 hrs of straight driving, lol.

Nice discussion but I bet there isn't many drivers who would shut down for 10 hrs, 59 miles away from the hospital where a family member is clinging to those last few breaths of life! 2000 miles away? You book a flight!

 

no cranky

we are moving into a direction that we will be monitored to the minute, and drivers think this is a good idea

legality has taken precedence over common sense and real life

read the comments here, if you go home you are ILLEGAL and you should sit and drive legal

even if it is purely for personal reasons

so i can drive my car all day from ny to cali, but if i drive my truck 10 minutes past the 11th hour, i am a danger to society

and too many drivers are accepting this as normal

 

in all honesty, 59 or 590miles, should not matter

how many of us can safely operate a vehicle, ANY VEHICLE for 8 hours after a couple of hours of rest? almost all of us

in an emergency, why is it required by law for you to sit when you can safely operate your vehicle? because of legalities? legality never overrides safety

legally i can shut down on a friday night, party till monday morning and drive a full 70hrs for the next week

 

even the government granted exemptions from HOS when Hurricane Sandy hit the northeast

we are our own worst enemies