can employer force me to log onduty when im offduty

I tried that....but Mr. Massmann said he didn't want to quit!

 

If that driver does not log on duty and falls out of his bed and gets hurt that releaves his employeer of any responiabilty and the do not have to pay him for hrs not logged the drivers ive talked to in the oil feilds say the get paid by thr hr so why not log 11 hrs aday instead of 6 or 8 hrs and on top of that id do as the comp that pays me says up to my 11 hrs

 

I know here in Texas we have an oil field exemption, you can log your time off duty. It depends on the state you live in. Every state has their own oil field rules.

 

If your being paid, you are not off duty, whether you are doing something or not, Log the time, collect the money, Wish I had a job that pays me to sleep, eat, play on a laptop

 

For the ones, telling him to show thing to his employer, He is being paid! to do nothing, the company can easily tell him, OK we can stop your pay, while you log off duty, and then when you go back to on duty, to go out to do your run, we will start paying you again, It will save the company some money, Pick your battles wisely, what's the pay?

 

What does this have to do with my comment?, your being paid, you are on duty, don't like it quite, no one is forcing you to work there, so you getting paid between 70-110 hrs a week, but physically working much less, In your post you said, 1-1 1/2 to do a round, the you sit in a heated shack for a couple hours doing what ever you want, sleep, laptop, eat what ever, so your not actually working 70-110, but still being paid, you can send me you companies info, I will call and see if I can have your job, because you don't like it there

 

Umm... no.

There is no relationship between being paid and being On-duty.

Also, being "on-call" does not mean being On-duty.

Ref.: http://www.fmcsa.dot.gov/rules-regu...fmcsr/fmcsrruletext.aspx?reg=395.2&guidence=Y



As for the original question, I would bring this information to the appropriate manager's attention with the intent of illustrating (as you have said) that you don't have to needlessly burn up your 70. If they still want you to, then go with what they want.