34 hour shutdown

there is no rule to make you fill out your recap and it is just more for the boys at the coop to screw you with as is guys who put pretrip and loading etc down in there book

 

Um, you might want to have a long talk with the nice inspectors at Sheridan POE about your comments. I didn't record my pre-trip or a 10 minute potty break and got a written warning for it from them.

 

One thing not mentioned is taking a reset even when you don't need it saves the trouble of having to count back past the reset to check for available hours .

 

True. I get a reset almost every Thursday and Sunday and it is easier.

 

Yep. I just finished an awkard trip back from Canada. I'd been out 16 days and my 70 was topped out. I was assigned a load back into the US with only 5 to 6 hours becoming available each day for the duration of the trip. So I'd get up, drive 5 hours, and park after a few hundred miles until the next day.

The load was originally scheduled for a Wednesday delivery, but I couldn't get it to the customer until Friday because of the HOS. Taking a Canadian 36-hour reset would have meant delivering on Friday as well, so there was nothing to do but putter along.

 

You know come to think of it, I don't see where it should matter to the company about your time off, a reset benefits both driver and company. I get one every week over the weekend and start fresh every Sunday night. It's one less thing to worry about being out of hours.

 

all that is required is that you flag your location at a change of duty and that you total your hrs

what did he say the violations was on the warning ticket ? they are not always right and sometimes they even bluff on purpose

here is another little tidbit many logs have a place for an odometer entries and all you are required to have is your total miles for the day

I have had plenty of conversations with the port boys as my trucks make on avg 24 trips a day through the SE Wyoming ports it was kind of a friendly running gag for a bit with them trying to catch a screw up on my part

 

Right, any change of duty, even if it only takes 15 minutes to do something expect you to note it as a change of duty. In my case I started at Sheridan, drove to Columbus, MT, loaded and was heading back to Denver. My hours did not match up to what it should have taken me to do this, a difference of 45 minutes. I did my change of duty and showed the location, etc. for my loading point. But, my prepass wasn't working and I got pulled in both directions at Billings for paperwork. I didn't notate each one, as well as a 10 minute potty break. The warning was for not notating a change of duty status.

 

FYI 2FUZY the logs asking for odometer readings are probably set up for running the "Great White North". They require an odometer reading at the start of each day.