Off duty question

Safety was right, if your not offloading the truck and just sitting there waiting your off duty. The traffic thing though is wrong, should not go off duty in that situation, not that I haven't but it's a no no. I think you will learn that every minute you spend on duty takes away from your drive time and thats how you make your living all your doing is hurting yourself when you wast time on duty.

 

All time at the customer is to be logged On Duty Not Driving unless relieved by your company or the customer. You can log Sleeper if you have one and you are in it.

Here is a post from another TTR member from another thread where they were popped for being Off Duty at a customer while waiting to be loaded.

 

Your in my boat,Welcome.I'm not scared, but definitely know I
need to get a lot more computer savvy before I get out there.Welcome to the computer age,what did we ever do without them.A lot more paperwork I guess.Good luck.

 

That metro cop was wrong.

 

Since you like to be pedantic, you might want to quote that full regulation.
It says while waiting for a dispatch all time at a customers must be on duty.

"(1) All time at a plant, terminal, facility, or other property of a motor carrier or shipper, or on any public property, waiting to be dispatched, unless the driver has been relieved from duty by the motor carrier;"

People seem to always forget that the waiting to be dispatched clause is there.....

As for the op's question for traffic here is the guidance...

Question 25: When a driver experiences a delay on an impassable highway, should the time he/she is delayed be entered on the record of duty status as driving time or on-duty (not driving)?

Guidance: Delays on impassable highways must be recorded as driving time because §395.2 defines “driving time” as all time spent at the driving controls of a Commercial Motor Vehicle CMV in operation.

 

Metro cop is wrong.

The computer age, truck in dock or waiting on company stuff etc onduty. Unfortunately just being involved with live loading or live unloading will destroy your 70 hour week FAST to zero leaving you with no money made from a few hundred or a thousand miles.

The better remedy is to find a outfit that does very little to no lives at shippers or reciever.

The trainer doing the off duty on a public roadway is in violation. Legally he cannot mess with your logs either.

The paper stuff was way better than the computer stuff in my time. The computer stuff just exposes more pathways for enforcement and so on because this is one industry you are not really off duty until you are relieved of all responsibility to the truck (INCLUDING WAITING FOR A LOAD.... at a facility somewhere.) You are literally free to go play.

It is really unfortunate that in this information age our shippers and recievers are truly slack and lazy at the docks, leaving us to wait 10, 12, 16 hours just to get something moving.