Proper procedure when out of hours on e-logs?

Some folks have an irrational fear of physical exercise.

 

Some drivers would have a stroke if they had to walk farther than the front row or the spot beside the scale.

 

If your based west of the mighty Mississippi River and running west you shouldnt be worrying about finding parking on Elds it's all about planning you can use your off duty driving if you get close to your daily spread I never heard of a driver Parking up with 3 hours of driving left

 

Off duty driving while under dispatch is illegal.

 

you gotta do what you gotta do so is buying a 6 pack and keeping it in your cool box millions of drivers do it
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Yeah by the looks of some of the driver's I've seen I wouldn't doubt it.

 

Industrial parks, for sure the larger ones are usually a good bet. that's one of those places where you pretty much wont be hassled for parking on a street. even if you aren't delivering there whos gonna know if you are or aren't. on your 30 minute Obama break take the time to figure out how much farther you will get with hours available and look at the names of towns in that area and goggle industrial parks for those towns. use satellight view to make sure it looks like you could find enough streets and you should be good. no services, but life aint easy or perfect sometimes.

 

Get a truck stop directory, it is sort like a telephone book but lists all the truck stops in the United States and Canada.

Also the randmcnally GPS has all the truck stops and rest areas. So what you do is plug in your destination and a couple hours before the end of your day you hit Start/Points of Interest/My Route, and from there truck stops or rest areas or whatever POI you want. It tells you how many miles ahead they are.

Say you have 2 hours left, and you see a truckstop on the GPS is 95 miles ahead. Click on it and it routes you right to the truck stop on your route, hit Time Remaining and it shows 1:49 or so, you know you can make it-- barely. But if it showed 2:12 you know you'd be over so don't even try, unless you know you can edit your On Duty time somewhere else in your logs to gain some more time which I have done to get a few more minutes to get to that preferred 10 hour break spot.

 

Drive mostly at night if you can, prefer the smaller non-chain truck stops, and start at the farthest row from the store. You'll have less traffic and fewer idiots, better food at lower prices, and I dunno about you but my fat ### needs the exercise.

 

Whats the question here?

If you're shutting down with 3 hours left chances are you're pretty #### at planning your trips. I don't know of anywhere in the continental US where parking is so much of an issue that you have to shutdown that early, except maybe Long Island.

The only difference between elog and paper is how you record your hours. There is no magical entity that is monitoring you 24/7 ready to spank you for going 3 minutes over. If you're generally in compliance with existing rules, elogs aren't going to magically make it harder to stay compliant.