I went over my 11 last night by 8 minutes.

This private property #### has to stop. A truck stop is not private property, it is public property. Anyone and everyone can come and go in and out the t/s at free will. You as a free citizen don't need permission to be there.

Notice I didn't say law enforcement can be on the t/s property without permission.

A shipper receiver would be private property. Joe schmoe and his family can't just go to GSK and hang out at the docks flipping quarters.

 

I'm calling BS on the private property thing as well.

By that logic I don't have to log on duty while on a customers property right?
Must be something out of that new "FMCSA Regulations book: Hearsay Edition".

 

@TROOPER to TRUCKER ???

 

I'm fairly certain truck stops are private property. You're only there because you're a customer and have permission to be so. If they tell you to leave you have to or they can call the cops and they can tell you to leave.

 

Is this guy serious?? The guy went over 8 minutes not 8 hours. Crap happens and the safety department knows that. As long as he doesn't make it a habit he will be ok. He just has to learn to trip plan alittle better. The worse thing they may do is take his safety bonus away if his company offers one. At my company you have to go over by 15 minutes two times in the quarter to loose your safety bonus.

 

My Elogs don't have a private property exemption. Only a clock that doesn't give a darn. About private or public property. I'll be sure to tell my safety department to get with the program. So the clock will start and stop when I hit Fmcsa enforceable roadways......

Wow to think all those years on paper I was screwing the pooch putting myself on the drive line on private property. I learn bull thunder I mean something new everyday on the truckers report.

 

I wasn't suggesting logbooks and private vs public had anything to do with each other. If the truck is moving you're "driving", although I do know the e-logs have a certain mph that has to be reached and maintained for a certain period of time before it trips you over to the drive line. That threshold is set by the company so it will vary from company to company but usually you can putt across a parking lot in off duty mode without tripping it.

 

Here at Schneider you can't edit drive time. It doesn't matter what property you on.

 

Yes, I'm serious.

Could be six months or a year down the road and all the sudden you have a dispatcher or someone else that has a bone to pick with this guy and starts looking for reasons to can him. Someone like that could point this out, without context, and say "See, this guy ran illegally and went over his HOS."

One less thing to be found later.

 

Going over won't be too much of a problem unless you get some dot nazzi who wants to write it up as a violation. But consider if you crash this week or even within the next 6 months, say a fatality crash, the lawyers can bring that up in a lawsuit and say this professional driver has a history of breaking the law and let's send the driver to prison.