Here's the load in a nutshell:
3pm pickup, 6 hour drive, 9am delivery the following morning.
Only 320 miles you say? LOOK AT THE APPOINTMENT TIMES!!!
I told my boss to bill the broker as a team run because somebody's got to be up in hour 16 to back the truck into the dock.
Stupid 9-5 shippers need to be taught what the *expletive deleted* FEDERAL regs are!
(EDIT: I just realized that by some math it IS legal, but I've been to this place before and the only way it would work would be if they let you take a 10 hour break onsite or loaded you in under 15 minutes. Neither is gonnahappen.com)
Broker books completely illegal load,,, don't they know basic math?
Discussion in 'Trucking Industry Regulations' started by Infosaur, Dec 30, 2014.
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not illegal. you get there at 3pm load your ld.
you are the one who got up at 6am..
use your brain on the thinking part on how to log it -
read your update. see it can be done
Infosaur Thanks this. -
Take an 8-hour sb break anywhere en route. Shipper, receiver, rest area... Easily legal.
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Not illegal at all.
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the broker , didn't do it, your boss didn't check on his drivers available hours when taking the load, but its simple if they load late, deliver it late. the world wont end if it wasn't there by 9am.
but as others said , it can be done legally77smartin Thanks this. -
Yeah, It's not illegal. My brain's in a fog. I've done work for this client before though and what they tell the broker and reality are two different things.
My outfit is struggling to get work over the holiday break (most of our primary clients are shut down for 2 weeks) so we're booking on the open market, food mostly.
Plus it's a swing shift, I've been up during daylight for 2 weeks over the holidays (family doesn't understand "trucker's hours") Sleeping in and staying up late drinking. (making up for the other 298 days of the year I'm stone sober).
So we get a last minute book with a late afternoon load, (I've been on the dock at this place as long as 8 hours!) and a morning delivery. Deadhead home for fireworks and champagne if I can make it back by midnight.
I'm trying to explain to my boss that trips like this won't work when we go to e-logs.
Funny thing is, I was gonna pass on this load, and my wife insisted on me taking it because she didn't want me to beyoch about being broke next payday.
"Theoretically" I'm supposed to be sleeping, but the kid is jumping on me with his latest Christmas toy, the wife expects me to do the dishes and the house doesn't have blackout curtains. (I really do sleep better in the truck if I'm out past 4am.) but it's a short haul I should be fine. -
it sounds like you need to take a few days off from driving; get some fresh air
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Get me back in my rig so I can get up at midnight, deliver at 8(am), park at 10, sleep until 6 and drive all night!
If I wanted daylight, I'd work under fluorescent tubes like everybody else! -
Truckers aren't staying up all night, you are doing vampire trucking
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