What's Next??

Stay outta my beer.

 

Just wait until the next time that I get to PHX.

 

I think this whole nonsense with the 10% is just some guys brilliant idea at the DOT to find an excuse to raise money for creating violations where none existed before. You have to consider the lost revenue that elogs bring, they absolutely force you almost to be legal all the time. My DM is even going so far as to threaten DOT violations and CSA scores for not logging at least the 10% for on duty time. I swear I will get an attorney and demand to see the legal statute where this "imaginary' rule or law is written.

What my safety guy told me was, if a shipper or cons tells you a difinate time when your load will be ready or emptied, you can then log off duty. but if the situation is one where there is no time frame set, then it must be on duty and maintaining that state of readiness already mentioned.

I personally think its a part of some master plan to turn trucking into a 40 hr a week minimum wage job.

Now its 10 soon 15 won't be enough, then what? 20 %?

And so far, I can't find any other drivers with any other company talking about this new 10% rule, have any of you?

 

I agree!

Well I am out of the SLC term, and as the story goes, his board was audited by the DOT for driver compliance in logging 10% of their time on line 4. According to him, his board failed the audit, and will be audited again sometime this Dec, and we all gotta pass.

And there's more, but thats the basic stuff. Right now according to his daily updates, I am at 65% compliance with this new (imaginary, as I like to think of it) rule.

 

Just ask the guy for the code of federal regulations next time, he's lying to you. You are in charge of your logs as the driver; no one else.

I'm just logging more time in Line 4 to keep the suits happy. What usually happens is they bang out new stupid rules every once in a while, everybody complies for a short time then it slowly fades back to what it was before. Like this whole Goal and honk the horn when you back up thing, does anyone do that anymore?