SCOTUS rules in truckers favor, must pay for loading and unloading time

Wrong. There is no difference in the regs on what is on duty for O/O's vs. employees.

On-duty time means ...
(2) All time inspecting, servicing, or conditioning any commercial motor vehicle at any time;

Any time servicing a CMV, which means any time working on it. Doesn't matter who or where.

 

I don't make the law....
And to be honest, very few O/O's will ever get caught doing maintenance. But it is what the law states.

As for a side gig, actually yes.
It's even worse. I love wood working. Say I build a poker table because it's relaxing. I end up selling it because I don't really like poker, I just like building stuff. All that time would become on-duty as per item 9 in the on duty list.
"(9) Performing any compensated work for a person who is not a motor carrier."

 

You seriously need to go take a class on HOS.

 

"The US Department of Labor says that "any work which an employee is required to perform while traveling must, of course, be counted as hours worked."

They also teach this to drivers in orientation at every company yet they don't pay you to do the work.

Then the company, DOT, etc wonder why drivers log as little on duty time as possible.

They pay shop personnel hourly wages, guys that spend 1/2 the day drinking coffee and smoking while being PAID, yet drivers get messages on the Qualcomm to take trailers to terminals for maintenance while not being paid, the same trailers sit at terminals for days between loads.

Take the truck to Blue Beacon a couple times a month, gotta log those 2-4 hours on duty but oops, you aren't going to get paid anything.

 

Sorry, but you're wrong. Any time spent servicing, maintaining, or conditioning the truck must be logged as on duty.

And, this came up, because somebody posted that all time at a shipper or reciever will have to be logged on duty in order to get paid, which you incorrectly disagreed with.

In fact, all time waiting at a shipper or reciever must be logged as on duty, wether you're paid or not.

 

The company I am with currently pays us by the hour, after 2 hours at a shipper or receiver. Good companies will take care of their drivers. Others, meh.

 

Yeah but see even that, “after two hours“. Why should you have to wait for even those two hours to start getting paid? I mean think about it you’re locked in there, you can’t go do anything else you have to sit there and are responsible for all operations and the safety of that truck and equipment. You can’t drive and earn any money by the mile for those two hours. However, the two hour rule is pretty much what most companies do. Now the company I worked for? They would pay after two hours, or at least it was in their policy to do so somehow it never usually ended up on my paycheck though. Once in a blue moon.