Raise your prices, raise your pay for the drivers and follow the law. This is what the rules are forcing on us. Yes you can have a different legal driver go get that truck, document all the extra costs and hits to employees pay and start sending that to your congressional representative.
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Discussion in 'ELD Forum | Questions, Answers and Reviews' started by SBCtRucker, Dec 6, 2017.
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i wonder if this may be a call for some companies to have a driver's helper go on the deliveries with him, and also be a CDL driver, like say a newly licensed driver, or someone that just wants to work part time hours. then if only a helper, would that person need to on the HOS if only a helper, THEN go on the elogs when he/she has to drive the final miles?
as an example, dunkin donuts has some of thier trucks go out for deliveries with a driver helper. that person can double as a driver when the need arises. some food delivery companies have driver helpers as well.Highway Sailor Thanks this. -
2,800/1 or 4,000/2? Where the driver loses, the carrier wins. The drivers are forced to live a miserable life in a tuna can together, high mile weeks or low mile weeks. But that's not a carrier's concern.Highway Sailor and Justrucking2 Thank this. -
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It is all about the bottom line, the companies, not yours.
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Assuming a day cab operation; both employee's clocks start at the same time and both will be out of hours. The only way to extend the driving time is if the first driver runs out of driving hours before the 14 hour clock expires and the second driver can get the truck back to the terminal before their 14 hours expires.gentleroger and Highway Sailor Thank this. -
There are drivers not working who can be called to go out and retrieve a load, it happened when there was a problem and the first driver ran out of hours, I called more than once, and got an empty brought to me so I could go out the next night, loading at night is it's own special misery in the Midwest during the winter.
We had tractors brought out to a disabled one, and finished the load from there, too. I've run my share of rescue and relief myself. -
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The original driver out of hours 100 miles from the yard is just going to have to take his 10 and stay put and get his hours back. Your dispatcher will have to suck it up and wait that length of time.
Any time one of your trucks approach being out of hours have another in position as a sort of dog catcher ready to get it off him before he really does run out of hours.
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