Sleeping at the shipper and reciever

Take what you see/hear on YouTube with a grain of salt. All shoppers and receivers have their own rules. Some will let you stay. Some will run you off. As to if it makes you $$$$, time will tell, right?

 

If you use Elogs and message that you've emptied load at b/l destination before you log a pretrip it'll look hinky. How did you dock or unhook without being on duty? Just sayin...

 

Completely depends. Some places you can. Some places there is room on the street outside to park. Some places you will have a hard time finding parking anywhere within 50 miles of where you are going.

 

As mentioned above, it all depends on each shipper/receiver

 

I agree, technically you shouldn't even walk into the building to check in without being on duty. Not that I've never done it... In fact when I was with my trainer back in the beginning, he taught me to log into sleeper berth as soon as I enter the customer's property, in order to save hours on my 70. That is pretty common practice though, even with e-logs.

 

Depends on the place. There's a couple we go to where I throw the paperwork in the trailer and back into the dock when I get there at night. They unload me when they get there in the morning.

For the most part though I prefer to park somewhere with washrooms, food etc.

 

I know Crete has it on the Qualcomm if the customer has overnight parking, so the dispatchers can try and force you to unload on your 10 hour break, (I got a service failure for refusing to do that and taking my 10 at a truckstop and delivering late(it was a 200 mile load) and they said it was for my language)
And I will rarely spend the night at a customer if there's a gas station or McDonalds real close where I can take my morning ####, and there's a pub nearby that I can eat supper
If you read the Magnum thread in the favorites section, they most always spend the night 10 miles away so they don't have to log drive time, but that's a lawsuit waiting to happen,
Plus if you spend the night at a customer with no restroom, where would you take a ####? If you get caught in the trees, you will get fired, And with the cameras now a days, even in the pitch black, they can see every pimple.
You'll figure it out

 

Let me see, spend night at shipper. No bathroom near by, no food near by and the local places don't deliver..
Nice parking with bathroom, shower, food.. Gee which one will I take....