Skip a Coop if Off-Duty Driving?

Yah, but your at their mercy. I can't believe you've been here so long and haven't figured it out...

 

So here is a senerio, I have a trailer for sale, a guy two states over says, Ill take it, but only if you can deliver it. You agree as long as you can load the traler close to him.

So you pick up load and drive to off load then you drive 50
miles down the road to drop
trailer and get paid, which now leaves you empty and bobtail I know what SM will say, and I already logged the trip home, on line 3, but I would have looked like a fool in thw weight station since I have no trailer, no load, but am on duty.

But I'M can't use pc to go home, because even if I'M return back I have No trailer to load?

 

Why would you look like a fool at the weigh station? You are driving a CMV, right?

I do not understand the difficulty of the concept. If you are driving a CMV, you put the time on line 3 of the log book - DRIVING. It is that simple, basic, and correct.

PC, or "off-duty driving" is limited to only two circumstances, neither of which you describe above.

 

Because the last time I bobtailed that particular truck into a weigh station the sm asked me what I thought I was doing.

 

I have had half a dozen bobtails in here this afternoon - nothing wrong with that at all.

By State law bobtails are required to stop at all weigh stations too. SM you mentioned needs to relax.

 

Ill let you in on the whole story and in his defense I could see the problem, this truck is a CMV lettered, lic, and reg. as such, BUT it is also a custom built crew cab, more like you would see pulling a horse trailer or rv, too make matters wore he had an OS/OD sitting there and I just happened to pull in right behind a whole caravan of Snowbirds that thought they needed to go though the scale house, he was already outside and had a big back up, by the time he got to me he took one llok at the truck and assumed I was with all the campers that were now parked all over his sh.

 

Nobody said anything about running "balls to the walls ". Its about having the work ethics to actually work when you need to. A very rare trait to find these days,

 

I'm sure this doesn't apply to many here, but I did notice while I was in an Illinois coop today that trucks under 8 tons are exempt from stopping, guess next time I am bobtail in Il. I can just wave when I go by, my tractor is under 16,000