OFF Duty Driving

it gets me to deadhead home, sometimes 500 miles

or am i supposed to just sit to be sitting?

 

wrong, the trailer just cant be laden(loaded)

 

I think you mean can't

 

it's of great use to me.

i'm unloaded. and i'm going home. regardless of enough hours or not. i'm not under dispatch. and neither is my trailer. it's coming home with me.

 

Thats for sure use it all the time

 

To quote from FMCSA in an interpretation letter to a carrier on this subject -

Come on by the scale here, dead-heading home, claiming PC. You might get to spend 10 hours in my lot with a receipt for your troubles.

 

Spoilsport! LOL!!

 

so let me get this straight

my truck, my trailer, unladen going home, why am i any different than the uhaul or RV cruising down the road, pulling a trailer?

 

Because you are operating a commercial vehicle subject to the HOS regulations.

 

he's not operating a commercial vehicle. he's driving his personal vehicle home.

he's off duty, with no dispatch. time to go home.

maybe if he had one of them NOT FOR HIRE signs.