Logbook rules

Yes, yes I do. The owner of the truck gives me free reign when it comes to where I go, what I haul and when I haul it. I find and book my own loads. So if I choose to go hook up to the trailer before I sign the rate confirmation and accept a dispatch, I'm off-duty according to the regulations. Everyone's situation is different, so don't confuse people by posting a particular situation as cold, hard fact!

 

I said going to pick up a trailer isn't personal conveyance because you're dispatched when picking one up. You don't have to have a load assignment either to be dispatched. You're picking up a trailer to be loaded with freight. That is NOT personal conveyance. Taking said empty trailer to a truck stop to park overnight is personal conveyance, provided you don't have a load assignment.

 

Yes, but when I'm on hometime I drop the trailer 10 miles from my house and bobtail home. Come Monday, I'll go pick up the trailer. My trip from home to the trailer is still 'off duty', since I haven't yet committed to a load at that point.

A fine point that really doesn't matter one way or the other, as I have never come close to bumping my 70, nor have I come close to my 14 on my first day out after hometime.

 

If I slit my wrists now, can I log it "Off Duty"???

 

See my edit.

 

That's performing work, so no, it's 'on duty'. Sorry.

 

On duty so you can claim it on WC.

 

Yip. That's the way I did it.

 

I think too it would have something to do with insurance if you had an accident esp if you are a company truck. When under a load the company would be responsible for claims due to a wreck, and I believe if you are bobtailing it is handled differently.