Stretching the truth on Line 1: Finessing or falsifying?

Line 2 would be better.

 

I always go with line two.It's more believable than if you state you were off duty,and less likely to raise scrutiny,especially,if you've shown you arrived at 0600,then you say you went ''off duty'' for 4 hours before you got rolling..

Depending on who you work for, and their safety department, I would just catch up on my sleep, and when I get my bills, re-do the log,to show a 15 minute load/unload and go from there..

 

Making fudge ALREADY !!!!!!!

 

Better that he learns to do it right, then come up with a lame excuse like ''everyone does it..'' lol...

 

Here is a thought, how about finding a really good company? One that pays for all of your on duty time in some way. Would that not solve the problem? In my opinion, if you have to cheat the system in order to make money, there is something very wrong with that company.

Drive safe

 

It would, but there's too many dumb truckers willing to sit around for peanuts and happy as a lark to do so.

There is also something very wrong with that system.

Let me ask you this:
How many people do you know that would show up for 2, 3, 4+ unpaid hours sitting around at their day job for no pay?
I can't think of a one.
I doubt you can either.
But the Great American Trucker, (AKA: Knight of the Open Road, Last American Cowboy, etc.) is expected to do just that.

Well, not on my account I can assure you!