Max time you spend in sleeper birth?

In my time you drove and got the load there, then you can hit the sleep. Maybe next week. That wont fly in today's elog etc. You put in your legal time, stop and hit the sleeper 10 hours. You might not be in that thing the whole 10. Laundry etc. Your ability to deal with sleep cycles flipping between day and night determines your safety. Always sleep when you have dead time waiting, to stay charged, even if it is for a hour. You learn to fall asleep instantly but not too hard and wake up instantly if need be such as one time when a bad guy entered my door after my wife who had got in fast. I think bad guy is alive today and free from prosecution because he took off.

Sometimes things go wrong in that sleeper such as when the A/C burned out and quit in the night one summer june at Spartansburg sometime after midnight. went from having frost on the glass to around 150 in the sleeper at post sunrise. The extreme heat destroyed me for the day and was close to death (From being poached alive..) it took the rest of the day inside the truckstop to hydrate slowly from several gallons of tea with instructions to staff to call ambulance should i drop. They were very good about. Company was silent and we fixed (built) a new A/C near savannah that week. 1700 dollars is a small expense for my life I say. The time lost? well.. on a day like that, no one counts the lost time. They are glad you are getting healthy and will be expected to continue on with a new appt time.

 

Can you imagine what a trucker's log would look like if they had a bad case of the runs. Line 1 to line 2 to line 1 to line 2 to line 1 all night long. Then a long time on line 1 while washing your underwear because you took to much time logging and had an accident on the way to the loo.

 

End of shift End of story. Dot can kiss my donkey

 

This is gold, absolute gold ... given your history at Swift ... Maybe the greatest trick a troll can ever pull off, is convincing the world he isn't a troll.

 

Gotta give props, you guys are keeping the old outlaw trucker spirit alive even in this day and age of ELD extreme rules and regulation lockdown.

 

Having access to a split/sleeper option in Canada, I usually only spend the minimum 8 in the sleeper at the end of a day when I'm going to be staying in the truck (I don't like it but sometimes it's necessary). The other 2 hours were usually spent during the unload, waiting for whomever to take their sweet time taking stuff off the trailer and not getting paid more than $15-20 for it.

I push too hard when I'm not working hourly, and hate sitting around doing nothing.

 

This guy was busted for logging off duty while in the sleeper.


http://www.thetruckersreport.com/tr...ng-off-duty-when-in-sleeper-yes-or-no.269244/
***drops mic***

 

Well....with all this talk about what line to be on, when to be on it and what you might be doing on any particular line, it kinda makes yer head spin. So I'll just leave this here...

 

Forget that he must have done something else to tick them off. Once I logged sleeper I did it until I was out of there.

Ok it takes the ELD several minutes to be powered up so do I crap myself because I have to change my status....ummm NO

 

As Pink Floyd said to the audience in the song from THE WALL, I got some bad news for you sunshine. I remember that post and I sent the poster a PM asking for the code section of the violation. No reply was ever give. Till I see a copy of that order and ticket with code section it did not happen.