HOS???

I average over 3000 per week.

There is a difference between making a decision on logging "less then exactly how things go" and being told by the company to falsify your logs.

 

I have a question about this myself. I was recently told by my carrier that after I get up for the day after the 10 hour break and start my day, that time before they send the next load information is not considered line 4. The way I read the statute, it pretty clearly says any time waiting to be dispatched is supposed to be line 4. The way it reads according to the handbook is pretty much any time you are not free to leave the truck and pursue other activities is either line 3 or 4. Now whether you actually log it that way is another matter, but I'm looking for what the legal definition is.

 

A basket of deplorables, every one of them

 

If you emptied out and they don't have a load right away, go do your 10 hour break. If they still don't have a load, you are still Off Duty or Sleeper til they do. Use it toward your 34 hour break.

Yes you're technically on standby, on call waiting for the next load but not required to log On Duty for it. Sometimes you empty out late in the afternoon, they won't have another load til the next morning. So you might be down 17 hours or so. If it happened on a Thursday afternoon before a 4 day holiday weekend, yea, you're gonna be on your own til next Tuesday.

 

We're going to build a wall around that comment. And it's going to be a wonderful wall. Really absolutely fabulous. The most fabulous wall ever.

 

Aw ok.

How about this instead.

If there's a line, I log off. 5 min to fuel, rest off duty.

I do a 15 min pre trip and a 1-5 min post trip. 1 min for bobtail and 5 min with trailer. Yes, that's right. 1 min logged post trip on elogs using mcp200.

Sometimes... in some really exclusive situations... I log on duty for something else. Otherwise, that's it. No other reason to be on duty that I know of.

Sorry mods. I'm really really bored....

 

Are you required to sit in your truck waiting for a dispatch?

 

What a disappointment. I checked into this thread thinking the topic was lot lizards.

Carry on.