14 hour

Blasting through construction zones and towns is not a new thing, brought on by E-logs. Same thing was happening in 1979, when I started, and no 14 hour clock.

 

All I know is my Hot Shot company I am leased to requires me to log.

Dispatch has tried to get me to do stuff that would be illegal.

I use that logbook as a WEAPON baby!

However in my 18 months of driving for Poor ##### Management (PAM) it was pretty common to be at the ragged edge of legality. I can ALMOST assure you in those months I would have been parked on the side of the road out of hours SEVERAL times.....

 

Gee.. I just read this thread and am getting confused about HOS.(albeit) that aint sayin a whole lot. Still-wonder how the O.P. is doing with this now?

 

Well sure Bumpy. It can be confusing.
Dispatch called me one day about 17:30 and asked me to do a 2AM pickup that delivered 4 hours away. 9500# of Hazmat. I said that I could not do that on a legal logbook. And she said "I don't understand"

Weapon Baby!

 

8 HR Sleeper Berth* Don't confuse the guy

Yeah, you would think that one of the requirements of being the management of truck driving is to understand it's laws ... and I bet you that when the load has a failure they blame it on the driver because of course the driver isn't there to speak to upper management. It's kinda sad really ... but I'm hoping this is just the case in PAMela

 

But the above example wasn't with PAM. It was the Hot Shot outfit I'm leased to.

I had started my day at like 07:30 so 14 hours away was 21:30
I had gone off duty at 17:00. 10 hours from that was 03:00.
The pickup was 1.5 to 1.75 miles from home.
No POSSIBLE legal way to make it happen.

And I do most of my contact with them from text to email. So there is a log online of everything I do. All I needed was to get caught by DOT. And there is a better than average chance because I would have been placarded DOT would have caught me.

My logbook is a weapon.

 

Yes it is!

 

The 14 hour rule, smh at it sometimes. When I first started out I didn't understand it but as I started being on the road more I knew what it meant. I take those three hours to my advantage especially on my driving days when I don't have to be at a shipper or consignee. Some drivers still don't understand it especially the newer ones. My 2nd co-driver called me and told me that one of the dispatchers told him to drive to the closest terminal even though he had ran out of hours, my co-driver didn't know that you get know it-alls to document it through the qualcomm.