Sleeper Birth while being loaded or unloaded

Also answering the phone and yelling "#### OFF." works good too.

 

Ive become immune to the QC beep. Even at top volume. My cell phone goes off and Im up and answering... my cell phone alarm goes off Im up too..

QC? Nope... Sometimes I will wake up on my own to discover 3 sometimes 4 messages.

Fortunatly, if the message is designated a priority message Qualcomm sends it as a text to my phone also.

Oh, and the typewriter sound on my phone that alerts me to a text message can wake me up no problem too.

 

Yes. Just depends on how much you think you need. Where a person lives makes a big difference. If a driver lives in NYC or San Francisco, then what the average national OTR company pays is chump change. If you live in the rural midwest, that same pay can be better than what most of your neighbors are making. In the midwest, what a person can realistically make in a year OTR can be $10,000 or more better than the average pay in that area. And a person can live better than the NYC driver. In the midwest I can buy a ranch style home on 5 acres of land for less than a person can buy a small condo in one of the big cities.

Everything is relative. One person's good pay is lousy to another.

 

I always log 15 mins when I get to the shipper line 4 if it's going to be any more than 1/2 hr to load me I unhook and note that. my time line 1 or 2 depending what I'm doing and 15 mins line 4 to hook and do the bills. Been thru lots of level 1 and 2 inspections and never a word from anybody? If I had to log line 4 for all loading unloading tome I'd get nowhere!!

 

I log live load or unload time on duty if I'm assisting or doing it myself, otherwise its off duty or sleeper birth

 

I'm still on paper logs and I just log it all sleeper berth unless its a drop and hook. I put a notation on my log book under the City and State Checkin-out, V.C. (5 mins)...Haven't had any issues doing that yet but I would assume the ones that would give you the most issues would be your company. I'm OTR with Roehl and they haven't said anything was wrong with my logs yet. DOT has bigger fish to catch than to get that anal over logs. They care more about making sure you aren't cutting your break short, running over hours, or using 2 logs.

 

Dot catches the fish when they come into the office to audit logs! If ur body is really in the sleeper then u can log sleeper! You log how long and all time spent dealing with the customer as On duty! If ur on e-logs then u can log to the exact time! So if I'm on paper logs and it tam 33 min to deal with the customer. I log 30 on duty if on e-logs and I spend 33 minutes the. I log 33 minutes! Easiest way to understand logs and logging! Log it as you do it and make sure u know what duty status u R on at all times! You can't log what u think is right, you have to log the way dot tells u to log good luck

 

Man, all this is so confusing to me.

 

Is the time spent cleaning the outside or inside the truck classified as servicing the truck? I like to look the truck over as I clean it and if you were technical, it could be said that I was servicing the truck.

 

Worked with a DOT inspector last year. Or I should say, I took my coffee and lunch breaks with him. It was an interesting 2 years working with the DOT. I worked in both design and maintenance. Got to see a lot of the other happenings as well.

Biggest offenders he nails....

Matching receipts (fuel, toll, repair etc) /BOL's to log books.