Why CSA 2010 and E-Logs are a good thing.

Some folks just think that every minute at a customer property must be logged on duty. Now where they got that, I am not sure. I have a delivery in the morning at the customer I am at now. Gonna take a 10, and then get unloaded in the morning. No on duty is required to be logged waiting for an appointment delivery time. I do this quite frequently. I frequently will fit breaks in at customer location. When I got this load yesterday, I knocked out a chunk of the run, hours were coming to an end, so I pulled in and got the truck serviced and took a break. Ran the run over here, and will take a break tonight, get unloaded, and head to my next pickup with a fresh 11. When you plan things right, it can work. Not all customers are amiable to camping out on their property, but quite a few are. I guess limit hauling for those that want to be morons. But then, that is one of the advantages to bulk or production hauling. It isn't like grocery stores and big box stores.

 

Cowpie , I would add one thing. I will overlook some customer short comings for the right rate!

 

The whole industry its about money

 

You always have the scenario of being detained on the dock past your 14 and afterwards forced to leave the property. Easy fix on paper but some explaining to do on an EOBR.

 

document, document, document.

 

Not really much different. On E-log, I just go to Off Duty Driving and attach a note that says forced to leave customer property. Never have had one issue with anyone who might take a look. I move to a safe place to park and continue the break with no interruption. Does mess with an 8-2 split if in sleeper on an 8 at that time, but just will have to take the full 10 if I do that.

 

Yes and no. I have ran my 14s out at a reciever, but never at a shipper. Running 14s out at a reciever doesn't matter much as you can line 5 it to the truck stop (off duty driving).

 

Who would like to "document" a log violation for safety to reprimand you for it? I really don't like to point out to an authority figure when I done something "wrong". Yes officer you pulled me over and I am going to tell you everything I done wrong like going over the speed limit by 2mph, I swerved in the middle of the interstate, I ran a yellow light that turned red on me, and whatever else just so you can write me a really nice fat ticket and punish me for something that I could not control like a log violation because some shipper wants to be a prick. Thank you sir for ripping me off a few hundred bucks with these tickets. NO thanks to the whole "document" thing.

 

Log violation by moving while taking your sleeper break. You might think it without interruption but legally you just interrupted your sleeper break to move to a safe place to park. So are you saying in actuality you violate the HOS regulation regularly?

 

He's talking about being in sleeper then going to off duty driving. If he's in the sleeper for say, 6 hours, then drives off duty to a truck stop that's 30 minutes away, then goes back to sleeper for 3.5 hours then that will complete a 10 hour break.