Personal Conveyance revisited

I'm not coming from loading or unloading. I'm coming from home after a reset.

 

Driving it from home back to the terminal is also fine since it says "between" your terminal and residence which implies both are fine. If it wanted to list a specific one it would have said driving "from" which it didn't.

However, just because it says it's okay you need to ask your company for their policy on it. Mine allows only 25 miles of Personal Conveyance and anything over we have to get permission. So definitely see what your company's rules are.

 

Yea, that's perfectly fine (as per the guidance) then.

 

After running out of time on my clock the other day I used “PC” as recommended, but got a message the next day saying not to use Personal Conveyance to try and “hide” drive time, told me to just drive to the nearest truck stop basically, so I’d probably check with my company first from the little experience I have

 

Every company is different mine allows it but yours may not. Sorry I didn't think of that.

 

Ah well, live and learn lol

I wasn’t blaming you guys btw by any means

 

I think the problem was your using it starting on the highway. At that point drive line and notation would be accurate. Using PC when put of drive time should only be when asked to move by a LEO, move while unladen for personal reasons (not to advance the load or towards your next load), ke a shipper/receiver doesnt allow parking. Your mileage may vary according to company policies

 

I think the other was right also about parking on side of road then using PC to move to safe place to park would technically be wrong. Because they probably don't know you were parked on side of the road and probably don't care. If you used PC from pick or deliver and put that in remarks on log book. Then it legal. If someone stops and then tries to move again technically it would be wrong.

Call you company and find out how they want you to log it. My company let's us log PC anytime we want but we can't go more then 30 miles or 1 hour driving time. Any PC over that we need approval from dispatch. If it 10pm and unloaded and out of HOS and we can't park overnight log, PC to first safe place to park without any trouble. Their is no other option.

I have gotten truck in traffic jam because of accident and run out of HOS on the road. Then we have put that in the remarks on log book and keep driving to first safe place to park. We can't park on side of the road. Basically my company say document it on the log book. You should be good. They might say next time log it a different way but it not a huge mistake.

 

Here a funny story. My company pay for CAT scales using COMDATA fuel card. So we have log it and it has to match logs. I logged On-Duty but move more then 5MPH. So the ELD put me as driving. Crazy log dept says I was off by 30 seconds and it was log book violation. They said I need to log Yard Move on ELD so it won't happen again.. Seem kinda wrong to log Yard Move at truck stop but they said if not you might get another log book violation.

 

Laden or not doesn't matter anymore as long as one isn't advancing the load.