2 weeks running straight....hos?????

it would be under "personal conveyance" since i am not under a load and heading either towards a shop or home

i wouldnt do it, only because barney fife wouldnt understand, but the issue here is that we are not to become prisoners in these trucks, these trucks serve as both our livelihoods and our home (away from home)

But I have driven 600-800 miles deadhead, off-duty and the beautiful thing is, once you are off-duty, they cannot make you become on-duty (for an inspection or anything else)

of course, its like telling the cop that pulls you over your name and giving him your ID and refusing to answer any other questions..........its legal, but you still are on the side of the road with him and his word against yours

 

You mean you guys lie and cheat with electronic logs?! Say it ain't so. The government says that's not possible!

 

I would love to see it, go through the scale empty, scale hollers at you to go around back, shout back F you, I am off duty! Sure would make my day. Then they would get you for disobeying an officer at the least. Can't win anymore. Better to just fly under the radar as best you can.

 

no, what typically happens is if they come out, you tell them you are off-duty and going home

and they say, OK

stop being afraid of the boogeyman

 

You're off duty so you bypass the scale.

 

good luck with that one, rick

 

Hi folks, 1st post here. Years ago I had a load going to the Bay area for a Friday but Donner was closed, receiver said deliver Monday. So when 80 opened I drove to Sac, got a motel, dropped my trailer and bobtailed to Old Town. Got into an argument with a cop about truck parking in a regular parking lot (I had a short wheelbase COE). Cop wants log book. This was Sat. afternoon and I'd logged off duty through Sunday midnight. Cop wrote me a ticket. I took the ticket to court, armed with all the regs, explained to the judge I was bobtail, using as personal vehicle etc... Judges words to the cop were " I can't believe a law enforcement officer of this State would be so petty and unreasonable as you have been - case dimissed!"

 

If I deliver at a place and they take 5 hours to unload it and my 14 has run out. When I get booted off that property I am off duty. The nearest truck stop I have to go by the scale. They are not allowed to inspect me? Now the cop is gonna be like "you telling me how to do my job?" Should go over well.

 

true

and to be honest, you dont have to be bobtail, just not under a load, nor heading to pick up a load

i am pretty sure the reg even for company drivers is 3hrs per day, someone else may know better

 

A few years ago Mike Millard was a member here . He was an FMCSA inspector and was selected as Inspector Of The Year in 2008 . He stated as you did . "unladen " can be pulling an empty trailer unless the trailer is the actual load as when a new trailer is being delivered . There is no stipulation at all in the regs about time or distance limits for personal conveyance .