Travel Time (395 fmcsr)

If you're in your personal vehicle..it's OFF DUTY...

 

If the carrier dispatches you to the other terminal and pays you to travel...it's on duty. The reg says all time getting ready for dispatch, on carrier business etc....I'll go get it and link it if you need. Technically your on duty from the time you hang up the phone. ( called you at the house to come )

If you challenge the carrier you will likely need a job.......

JMO

 

Technically if your getting paid its on duty (personal vehicle ). Most of us would log it off duy Im sure. I would require them to give me 10 hours off at home, not counting drive time. Your in control, Just say no.

 

Let me say this, if you got a call at home to go for a random, and you drive there of course in your car, you are on duty. My former employer paid us 2 hours. But the question arises, did I log that time?

Well, no frankly, I wasn't about to burn up time that I would need much later. Was I wrong not to log it? Of course, but I did what I wanted to do. SO your travel time to that other location, if you were told to go there from your house, is on duty. I never liked the off duty to start when my front tire hit the company driveway. I told a boss one time (in Mass), "go pound sand", he never bothered me no more. My off duty starts when I get home. safety manager said (in VA), "what if you go shopping when you leave the terminal? I said, I'll pick you up a quart of milk. He said but from Mass to VA? I said yeah, it might be sour, but hey, at least i thought of you.

never heard anything from either guy ever again.

 

You talk to the director of ops and explain two hours commute is conflicting with your time off and ask to be on a 12 shift rather than a 14 hr. When push comes to shove.....file a formal
Complaint with the safety director. This will put you in the hot seat...but it might help you with being tired and worth trying to salvage your job before quitting.

 

Whether or not you're getting paid is not necessaily the the determing factor if you are on or off duty.

In your specicic case, travel time to and from your house would be be off duty, as it would be going back and forth to your regular terminal.

If you reported to work at your regular terminal and then was sent to the other terminal it would be on duty even if they didn't pay you.

What I would do myself is everytime that the company wanted me to go to the other terminal, I would develop car trouble and claim my vehicle won't make there, that it just barely will make it into normal work.

Then they could send you to the other terminal in your truck, on duty of course.

 

So your getting up at 4-430 leave at 5 start at 6 run till 8 home at 9 to be up at 4-430? Better be getting #### good pay for that pain

 

Yeah, his company can make it a regular thing to go from his terminal to the other in his car, best he put his foot down and ask for a company car or the truck. At the very least, if they want to assign him at the other terminal for a long drawn out time? Then ask for a motel room. That may not work of course, but hey, he signed up and started work at one place, if their are going to play the game of go there regularly? Then put down your foot. They will take advantage of his "good will", if he does not speak up.