Schneider chat room - Closed see new thread linked in the last post

anyone in the 2 week out - 1 week home schedule

 

Vibration- in theory.

 

Straight from the FMCSA site which, I believe, will best relate to this subject:

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Question 26: If a driver is permitted to use a Commercial Motor Vehicle (CMV) for personal reasons, how must the driving time be recorded?

Guidance: When a driver is relieved from work and all responsibility for performing work, time spent traveling from a driver’s home to his/her terminal (normal work reporting location), or from a driver’s terminal to his/her home, may be considered off-duty time. Similarly, time spent traveling short distances from a driver’s en route lodgings (such as en route terminals or motels) to restaurants in the vicinity of such lodgings may be considered off-duty time. The type of conveyance used from the terminal to the driver’s home, from the driver’s home to the terminal, or to restaurants in the vicinity of en route lodgings would not alter the situation unless the vehicle is laden. A driver may not operate a laden CMV as a personal conveyance. The driver who uses a motor carrier’s Commercial Motor Vehicle (CMV) for transportation home, and is subsequently called by the employing carrier and is then dispatched from home, would be on-duty from the time the driver leaves home.

A driver placed out of service for exceeding the requirements of the hours of service regulations may not drive a Commercial Motor Vehicle (CMV) to any location to obtain rest.

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Yea, I asked another of our drivers at the shipper about it and that's what he said. Though I put my hand on the trailer and it isn't shaking all that much. My Cascadia idles pretty smooth.

Luckily I haven't had the sensor installed yet so I don't have top worry about it staying below 20 to idle.

Oh well I guess if it freezes it isn't my problem. I've done all that I can to stop it from happening.

The nice part of tonight is I'm right back at my home OC so I have access to my POV to go to the store and get dinner.

 

That doesn't apply to company drivers. We have no option to log off duty not driving. While it says its off duty time, you must still log it on line 5 which no company truck can do.

 

Company driver or L/O or O/O, regs are regs. It's still considered off-duty if you're actually and legally off-duty. I use the truck to go to/from a hotel, McD's, or other places for personal use while I'm off-duty.

 

Something called company policy.

 

Understood about company policy. I was attempting to support the argument with federal regs. which, in theory, supersede company policies, if I'm not mistaken - and I'm not.

 

No. The federal regs are for all trucks. Now if a company wants to add more regulations within the federal regulations, it is their right. Just like SNI doesnt want you to split breaks. Just like SNI says NO CELL PHONE USE WHILE DRIVING. even if you have a headset.

 

A company can add to what the regs say but they cant make policy in opposition of the regs but they can say no cell phone when regs say with a handsfree device or you must take straight 10 when regs say you can split and you can not drive there truck off duty