Hours question... is this legitimate?

730 to 330 is an eight hour sleeper berth which stops your 14 hour clock. If you could leave a little earlier from your house(if legally possible) to give yourself a little wiggle room so much the better.

 

Once you have been assigned a dispatch, it is on duty/drive time. 395.8 The driver who uses a motor carriers CMV for transportation home, and is subsequently called by the employing carrier and is then dispatched from home, would be on-duty from the time the driver leaves home.

 

You can't use personal conveyance to move yourself into a position for a load. That's cheating.

 

If you're under dispatch, there is NO personal conveyance. You are going to pick up a load. If you were not under dispatch, you could go from your home to home terminal back and forth under personal conveyance. It would be the same as driving your car to the office and back every day. Do you understand what that means?

You hear people say that it's a 'grey area'. There is a reason for that. Those who can work the system are allowed to work the system. Those who can't read between the lines won't.

"What if I lived 120 miles from my terminal, ran a full 70 and made it back to my terminal. Could I drive my car home at the end of the week? And how would I log it?"

If I was driving home in my truck for a 34 at the house, and I had to cross a scale, how would I log it? Off duty PC and keep track of the miles, and log the time I reached the house.
If I were driving to work and had to cross the scale, bobtail, how would I log it? Well, when I get to the office, I'm gonna shoot the bull with the fellas, have a few cups of coffee, possibly take the Browns to the Super Bowl again, eat breakfast... And ease out in 3 hours. How would I log this? When would MY clock start? When I got dispatched. Well, when did I get dispatched?

"But Six, what would happen if you got inspected in the scale?"

I would have to log the inspection ON DUTY. No grey areas there.

"But I don't want to run illegal."

No problem. That's why it's a grey area instead of black and white.

Edit: Now, if I was getting paid from the house to the terminal to the receiver, then it would be in black and white.

 

I'm going to say that the op's issue is more black and white. He has an empty trailer which he is being asked to move to the yard, which makes it on duty

 

So your company schedules you an eight hour layover at the yard, a12 hour wait between two local drops, and asks you to drive dirty. You sure you're with the company you want to be with?

 

Well good luck ####ing up your career. You keep driving dirty, the wrong dot cop is going to make sure you dont drive for a company that is worth while.