My Experience with Lone Star Transportation

Very nice. Pretty good turnaround.

 

I hope i never go back to JSW steel in baytown tx. I got there at 4:30pm they did my empty weigh then about 6 they tell me to go to door 11 i wait there till 9:45pm back in then they tell me that i was told the wrong door i need to be in door 2 so i go there and get in line inside the building then the girl in the scale house. calls me and ask me if i was loaded i said no i was in line she said i needed to come back and weigh that the girl forgot to push the button to print so i have to wait for the trucks ahead to load so i could get out then go scale and get back in the back of the line needless to say i finally get loaded and tied down at 1:30am

 

You at the Houston yard? I'll be here all weekend. I've had that kind of a wait and it always happens at steel mills it seems.

 

Loaded in the middle of nowhere in Ohio yesterday. An oilfield location. Delivers in Meridian, MS Monday morning. So I will be able to get home tonight. I need to try to get out of trouble for missing my anniversary.

 

No im in san antiono on my 34. Ive got a cat load goin to clayton nc. I love these loads

Anybody on elec logs know if im on "off duty" and i drive across the freeway to the truck wash will register and screw up my 34 or not?

 

You might be able to log "personal conveyance" and maintain your off-duty status while you take your 34.....but the truck wash would probably mean some on duty time should be logged as you are inspecting, servicing, or conditioning the truck....or any other work in the capacity, employ, or service of a motor carrier.

If you pay cash for the truck wash and eat the cost yourself, there would be no record of it and you could probably get away with it. However, if you are asking the company to pay for it, you should log some on-duty time for the truck wash because there would be a record of that truck wash which could prove your logs are falsified in the event of an audit.

http://www.fmcsa.dot.gov/rules-regulations/administration/fmcsr/fmcsrruletext.aspx?reg=395.2

 

Our elec log dosent give the opp for "personal conveyance" i wished it did then at least i could go to walmart to shop. I'll prob just wait till morning and wash then. A dirty truck just drives me nuts

 

You could log out.

On my elogs it doesn't put you on the drive line till I put it in 10th gear or drive over .75 miles and keep going.

Once I took a break before I went through Chicago, my e logs kept me in sleeper berth the whole 3 hours it took for me to go through because I would never get above 6th gear and when i reached about 1/2 mile traffic would stop. So it reset and kept me in sleeper berth. I went back and edited it of course.

Ethan

 

I finally made it home this weekend for my time off. I picked up in Garland on Wednesday for Houston and was told to take it to Gainesville for repower so I could go home. Get there, then the guys truck won't be out of the shop till Thursday so was asked if I minded taking it down to Houston, which I didn't have a problem since my wife was working anyways and I could make it down and back no problem... or so I thought. I was near out of hours by the time I hit fort worth so I just came home that night.

Left at 330am Thursday morning and get down there by 830a... unloaded and rolling to the houston yard to pick up dunnage for pipe by 11a. Sit in the houston yard for about 1.5 hours while they unload 3 trucks in front of the dunnage racks... then head over to get my pipe. 3 hours later I finally am loaded and secured.. just enough time to fight traffic and get to the pilot in huntsville for the night, which meant I wasn't getting home that night. DOH! I didn't mind it but the wife was peeved. But, I got some good sleep thursday night and made it back to FW to drop the load by 9... now off until Wednesday.

 

Be careful with the elogs, I've had times where it put me on duty just for literally moving a few feet. Sucks when you've been sitting at a shipper for a few hours, go to change it to on duty for loading and come to find out you've been on duty already for hours.