Mandatory safety Meetings - On Duty Required?

My question is: Why was the DOT cop in the sleeper with you to be able to verify that you received a phone call while you were in the sleeper on your 10 hour break?????

 

She was hot and let me borrow her cuffs.

 

The easiest answer is, if it's compensated time, it's on duty.
No big deal, no question.
And, if it's not compensated, I won't be there.

 

whether it was a union job that i had, or any other job, any safety meeting, we did not have to log anything..

and we still got paid, and pizza, and sodas!!

 

Never thought about that. We don't log it. Sounds like a trouble maker driver to me.

We do pay 20/hr for attending the meeting but thats just to help make it worth peoples time. Aside from the cash bonuses handed out for fuel and safety.

 

If it were a mandatory safety meeting I would log on duty.
As for the phone call, it never interrupts my break because I don’t answer on break. Even though my breaks are at home, I don’t answer. Just last evening, 7 calls from dispatch, zero answered. It was a day off.

 

Different perspective on this, not uncommon to get sent to pee in a cup at the end of the day before I go home, or come in late the next morning, oh and stop to pee in the cup. If the former happens when I've come back from a percentage load, I keep track of my hours from when I leave the yard till I'm done, then note that on my time card. If it's the latter, I start the time from when I leave the house till I pull in the parking lot at work, then add that time to my time card, I never make a change on my ELD about it, but, the boss does keep a record of it, so if anything was ever questioned, she'd have notes for it. Also, in the case of the former, my time off doesn't start till I leave the clinic.

As for safety meetings, to the OP, your coworker is being overly anal about it, it honestly comes down to the company policy. While technically, he is following the letter of the law, unless we are talking about a 4 hr safety meeting that the company then expects you to work a 14 hr day following, I wouldn't worry about it.