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

Of course, the boss will want to talk about you stopping to take a leak twice in 14 hours, not the shipper dinking around for 2 hours before they loaded you or the time you spent waiting for dispatch.

 

That doesn't allow you to drive past your 14. You can drive up to 13 hours for a surprise delay. So if you have an unanticipated weather or traffic delay you should plan ahead and not spend more than half an hour on line 4 (remember your half hour break). LOL

 

There are a million different reasons as to why a driver might be in a time crunch, and they are not always about poor time management. I don't think that I could take any driver very seriously who claims to have never found himself in the same position.

I have met, and know a lot of darn good drivers, and a lot of idiots as well................. But I never met a perfect driver.

 

Yeah I'm gonna stop with a herd of cows on for a 10 hour break because my logbook says so. 10 hours later when I start and half of them are dead I'll just tell the rancher I was out of hours. I'm sure he will understand. Focking freight haulers. You guys Crack me up

 

The stuff in my trailer is already dead so I don't have that issue.

 

Who wants to work 14 hours in a day anyway?!?

 

Yea no kiddin. This war time help and child labor is killin us.

 

Not sure what you mean, but given your user name that's hilariois

 

I think I'd put a switch on the ignition wire for the elog, claim it screwed up, and run a paper log.

 

So you filled a trailer with cows, who survive outside through the winter, to take them somewhere without having enough time to do it without stopping? Who's fault is that? Or if you knew ahead of time that you weren't going to make it without having to stop, there's releases that people sign that free you from any liability. Maybe your company should do that. If you're an owner, maybe you should look into that. OR, don't take anything that's going that over the limit unless you drive team. It's possible to handle it legally.

But ultimately, it's your choice to make. If you want to drive past that 11/14 you're free to. But you have to make a decision: If you get caught, is the risk worth the pay? Or was there a better choice of load to take? Or for company, could someone else have taken it?