If I am dreaming about being at work, is that line 4 time??? And if I am sleeping in a sleeper and dreaming about work what line should that be on???? And would it make a difference if I was dreaming about driving or about loading and chaining??
How about talking about work? and here I mean for real, wide awake talking to dispatch about the next day's run, or clarifying some matter of billing. Lets say a 5 minute conversation. Would that technically be line 4 time? And would my 10 hour break have to restart the minute I hung up the phone?
Line 4 Question
Discussion in 'Trucking Industry Regulations' started by Joethemechanic, Apr 23, 2007.
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Ok for some reason my quotes are not Quoting? I think it is the alien in me
Anyhow! Calinn: This question is asked below and answered by DOT
Question 5: Do telephone calls to or from the motor carrier that momentarily interrupt a driver's rest period constitute a change of the driver's duty status?
Guidance: Telephone calls of this type do not prevent the driver from obtaining adequate rest. Therefore, the FHWA does not consider these brief telephone calls to be a break in the driver's off-duty status.
Keep in mind though if you killed a bus of kids, they will be checking your cell phone records, qualcom etc. There fore you do not want to spend 10 hours on the phone when you should be breaking. You can be off duty during your 10 hour break so you can talk on the phone. Now if lets say your log witch (I am an auditor so I have the right to say that, you don't
) calls you
Here is another:
Question 30: If a driver is required repeatedly to respond to satellite or similar communications received during his or her sleeper berth period, does this activity affect a drivers duty status?
Guidance: Yes. The driver cannot be required to do any work for the motor carrier during sleeper berth time. A driver who is required to access a communications system for the purpose of reading messages from the carrier, responding to certain messages (either verbally or by typing a message), or otherwise acknowledging them, is performing work. For the purpose of this guidance, repeatedly means a pattern or series of interruptions that prevent a driver from obtaining restorative sleep during the sleeper berth period. [Editor's Note]
If you accept a load and get off the qualcom that is fine. Staying on there for 10 hours talking to the DM is work. -
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