Is on call on duty?

Are u local?and if so whats the mile radius tgat u drive from ur terminal

 

I think there is a rule that says you can be on for 16 hours if 50 miles from your terminal and havent used it yet. Id tell your company they are full of crap. Go to bed. If they call see ya at 4 pm.

 

Depends on if you like your job... You could remind them being off duty means you have no responsibility to answer your phone or do anything related to the company, or just log that phone call as "on duty" and let them know you won't have the hours to complete your run once you come into work. Who is charge of safety at your company?

 

Worst case scenario- You are involved in a multiple fatality accident- Police/Judge subpoena your phone records, you are supposed to log anything related to your company as line 4(or on duty if using local logs), they see a phone call at 800am, you never completed a 10hr break due to that phone call, and are now at fault for the accident. Worst possible scenario, and unlikely, yet still possible.

 

Sounds like you work in food service. And being on call probably means you're a new hiree.

To be honest with you, there's probably nothing you can do. That's how these foodservice companies work. If you look up any food service company in TTR, whether it's Dominos, Sysco, Mclane, USA Foods, MBM, or whatever, you'll read how hard these drivers have to go through in the beginning. You gotta remember, there's always someone else willing to do what you do if they can make $80-120k, no matter how bad or tough the job is.

Being on call is no way to live. I would suggest either look for another job, or try to stick it out, because once you get a set run, it becomes a lot easier, that's if you wanna call foodservice easy.

 

My bad, just reading your post sounded exactly like foodservice.