out of hours and want to go home.

What happens when the unit is not at the last location when it pings.

 

I hate it when that happens

 

Now why would you want to go home? You will only want to get back out here. LOL Even if you where to chance it and something happened (God forbid) then you would be up the creek. But I am sure you figured a way to get home. Hope you have a good weekend.

 

When it pings and you start getting calls from safety and whoever else tell them they aint gonna believe what happened. You where walking around and found a Jeanie bottle and when you rubbed it you got 3 wishes and one was to get home. LOL

 

I've used alien abduction :beer:

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This is an easy one. I would just go off duty. Flag running mt, no load assigned, to the house. I realize some carriers have a fit about this, and if they own the truck, they get to set the rules. I don't have that problem and the FMCSA interpretation is very clear. Don't get hung up by the "terminal" wording. Most of us that are doing OTR do not normally report to a terminal or leave a terminal to go home. We go home from where we last dropped. It does NOT say you can only do this from or to a terminal... it say's from your NORMAL WORK REPORTING LOCATION. That doesn't always mean a terminal location. My NORMAL work reporting location is wherever the truck is sitting when I climb back in it.

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.

So, to the OP's point, the government did not restrict you in any way from going home after you were empty. Your carrier might have, but don't put the blame on the government. They went into clear detail here saying you could go on home empty if you chose to. Let's put the blame where it needs to be placed.... on the carrier.

 

I think I would be tempted to lock it up and get a cab home. Is that an option or do you have to stay with the truck? Just curious, I know the different companies have different rules on that. What is the per-dium if any?

 

"Hey I'm just a stupid truck driver"." I don't know nothin bout your high tech ping pong game"

 

I wouldn't ask . Just do it . All carriers are different . Some do say you can't use PC home from a customer . As far as distance goes Quality Carriers had drivers that had been bobtailing home off duty about 120 miles for years . When they got e-logs the had a hiss fit if drivers went over 100 miles . The affiliate owner told the drivers to stay on duty for 30 miles bobtailing then PC 90 miles