2 weeks running straight....hos?????

Rick, if I remember correctly from some of your previous posts you come to Canada on a regular basis, no? We have a personal conveyance law of 75 total km per day. Dumb, I know, but it is there and something to keep in mind. I don't think it is ever enforced, but it is there. You never know, the gestapo of Ontario may see US plates and try to get you.

 

Thanks , but I almost never have a need to PC in Canada . There was one time I arrived at the customer and they said I was a day early because they had changed the delivery date . However , they dropped the ball and nobody notified the shipper . I bobtailed to a truckstop 10 minutes away and got a full day detention pay .

 

I would to see the inspection fly when you unload in cali. Claim off duty and pick up your next load in new york

 

Wouldn't the loophole be to have your carrier issue a statement that once checked in you were no longer reguired by company policy to be available for work untill ready to accually load or have been loaded? " unless the driver has been relieved from duty by the motor carrier;"

My last employer (currently in transition) had a written policy regarding this and said that it would satisfy dot and protect from liability. Thoughts????

 

So is this guy saying he will not log anything because he is going home? Isn't that still a commercial vehicle? So you can bypass hours of service laws because you are going home? Somebodies on some high speed chicken feed. Break break Ch 19.

 

#26

http://www.fmcsa.dot.gov/rules-regu...fmcsr/fmcsrruletext.aspx?reg=395.8&guidence=Y

 

Wonder how long before carriers start not paying drivers the miles to come empty back to terminal because they are "off duty going home"

 

DATE --HR----T HR -----AV HR tomorrow
9/16 - 9.5
9/17 - 3.5 ---- 13.0 ----57.0
9/18 - 9.0 ---- 22.0 ----48.0
9/19 - 11.0 --- 33.0 ----37.0
9/20 - 11.0 --- 44.0 ----26.0
9/21 - 11.0 --- 55.0 ----15.0
9/22 - 11.0 --- 66.0 ----04.0
9/23 - 04.0 --- 70.0 ---- 9.50
9/24 - 06.5 --- 63.5 ----6.5
9/25 - 06.5 --- 61.0 ----9.00 arrive Montana (Missoula would be pushing it, Othello to Missoula is 350 miles)
9/26 - 09.0 ---59.0 ----11.0 here is where he goes illegal/false log...Missoula to Fargo, ND is 940 miles...in 11 hours...NO WAY!

Everything after this day...actually once he went the 11 hours on 9/26 he is illegal...everything after this is just compounding a false log.

He needs to take at least a 34, home time would be best, and while at home....find a company that doesn't allow their drivers to falsify logs, and since they manipulated his logs, they are also culpable.

 

What you are missing from there is the times he fueled, he docked the trailer, did a pretrip or postrip. 70 hrs is the driving plus the on-duty time. That dude was out of hours for awhile. He better hope he doesn't get into a fatality accident with some drunk driver who goes underneath his trailer in the next 3 months, because him and his company will be thrown under the jail. I know her husband has got to be smarter then that to let the company put him at that risk.

Now when I took those risk I knew what I was doing, but he seems like a dear that is caught in the head lights. I wish I could call up my boss and tell them to shave off a couple days so I can get this 1900 mile load to Wyoming by Friday instead of doing this relay.