Do you shutdown when the 14 hour clock is up no matter what?

If nothing else I'm getting a good lesson in how to cheat with Elogs

 

All these newbies who think we live in a perfect world,and tell a driver he should of planned better. Let them be in that predicament I bet there perfect world wont be so perfect. The 14 hour clock must go,this will solve so many problems. Time limits are not safe in trucking.

 

Says who? Melton truck lines out of Tulsa, OK has it, Western Distribution out of Denver, CO has it, where do you get your info at?

 

No one said anything about being legal, the question was "if 20 miles away, and your 14 has ran out, do you keep going or not?"

 

Your call, your CDL. It only hurts if you get caught, but if you do, it hurts real bad for a long time. I like making a living with my CDL, so I don't break the rules. Mostly. It does sound like a trip planning issue.

 

You are not legal using line 5 if you are under a dispatched load. Some companies let their drivers use the company trucks a little. Conway gives an hour/day.

 

I ran E-Logs running all 48+Canada flatbedding for a year and a half. I recently left them and am now a bull hauler. Even running loose leafs doing long haul with a bull rack I am never as tired as i was running E-logs. My sleep schedule does not sync up with the HOS so I would routinely be up for 30 plus hours on few hours sleep because I couldn't sleep when the computer thought I should. I will never do that again. When the E-logs become Mandatory I'm out of the business. I'm 22 years old and was going to college before this so I'll just go back and remember the good ol days before the government ###### it all up.

I'm hoping us bull haulers get an exemption to the E-log mandate or an HOS exemption, but It won't be any sweat off my back either way. I'm young enough to go back and finish school and get into another line of work.

 

I'm on elog and my computer NEVER has told me when to sleep. It just let's me know whether I am in compliance with the HOS. Don't blame the computer if drove tired, that's on you.

 

I guess not, especially on e-logs. 20 miles and a full unload you won't be able to make that look right even if you're on paper. Unless there was some extenuating circumstance like a snow storm and wreck that shut down the highway, you should have trip planned that a little better.

 

everybody get riled up