Line 1, can't go back?

He has his own set of rules I guess?

Nothing says you can't do your pretrip and then go eat breakfast, then drive. Evidently he thinks you have to go straight to driving?

You can drive once a week in a 16 hour window. You can work line 4 indefinately as long as you take a 10 hour break afterwards. But driving local you have a fixed start time usually. You need to leave work 10 hours before the next shift.

 

You can work up to 16 hours once per week but only if you are released from duty at the same location where you report for duty each day and you fill out a logbook, as opposed to carrying a timecard which restricts you to a 12 hr day within a 100nm radius.

There is nothing to stop you from going on duty for some time and then going off duty for a period, however, going off duty will not stop your 14 hour clock. If you log on duty at 6am, you must cannot drive beyond 10pm (14 hours later) regardless of how much on duty or off duty time you have logged between 6am and 10pm. Only and eight hour break in the sleeper will stop the 14 hour clock. And, remember, you cannot exceed 11 hours of driving, except in extraordinary circumstances like bad weather where you are allowed an extra 2 hours, however many companies won't allow their drivers to use this exception because its hard to justify that you actually needed to drive another two hours.

The only problem you may run into with what you did is that some may interpret the law to state that technically you are still on duty while you are waiting for repairs. But really, what's to stop a guy from watching tv in the lounge or hitting on the waitress (thereby going off duty) while Cooter changes a tire or fiddles with the carburetor so you can outrun Roscoe?

 

Maybe I am too? When I ran LTL, I never had time to go to line 1. So I don't know?

If you work over 12 hours a day, you still need to watch your hours. A 10-12 hour day it wouldn't matter as you reset every weekend.

 

The 16 hour thing you wouldn't be able to do as an OTR because you have to be released from duty at the same location you report to work in order to use it. So that restricts the use to city drivers like me who occasionally go over 12 and outside 100 miles and as such are required to run a log.

When I was on the road I rarely exceeded 50 or 55 hours a week especially when I was home on the weekends. Now that I run local I regularly go over 60 in 5 days because all my time is paid for so if it takes 2 hours to unload somewhere thats what I log, as opposed to just showing 15 minutes to sign paperwork and the rest off duty or in the sleeper like I did when I was on the road.

 

Do you have written authorization to be relieved of duty during your work day. Although most companies provide this, not all, and without the authorization you are responsible for the tractor, trailer, and load until relieved.

 

Waiting for repair work needs to be logged on line 4. That's where you violated your logbook. Even if you leave the truck for breakfast, you still need to be logged 'on-duty' while repair work is being performed on the truck/trailer.