What would do you in this situation?

Would you knock it off wth the pedantic bull crap?

Yes. We get it. Safe haven is a term the dot uses in regards to hazmat.

Guess what, people commonly use that term to refer to the hos provisions regarding driving past your hours in unexpected circumstances. Don't like it? Too bad.

 

I'm wondering if you understand how the mac 9 works.
There is a 'c' option to 'counter' the pick up and/or delivery time.

You can use it to adjust the times that you pick up and/or deliver a load.

If I get a pick up or delivery at midnight I'm like... no way.
Why? I'll be asleep.
I use the mac 9 to put in my own times, on my own schedule.
And if it doesn't match what the customers want for times, the pplan is taken off me.

What happens next?
I get a new pplan, which I will respond to accordingly.

Swift is SO flexible with this. You do not have to adhere to what they 'think' you can do.

I run my own hours, for the most part. There are always a few exceptions.
But you can do it as well.
Just treat the truck and your time as your own. You run things out here - not them.
That is always how I have done things over the past 6 years here, and it will not change.

I am the captain of this ship, and I WILL do things my way!

 

Since I am "pedantic" and full of "bull crap," please do help us all out and explain your understanding of the "HOS provisions regarding driving past your hours in unexpected circumstances" and how they would apply to RedRover's flagrant HOS violations. Oh, please school me.

 

Your logs will be held by the carrier for 6 months, subject to review by an inspection by auditors anytime. This is why it is important to keep the logs 100% compliant. With Swift it may raise your Risk Assessment score which puts you on the Swift watch list.

Moosetek13 mentioned macro9, i totally forgot about that one. Yes, absolutely trip plan your load before accepting it and adjust pick up and delivery times to match your do-able hours. If you try to run the Swift Plus 1 system you will crash for sure.

 

Excellent point. Never want to be out in the woods here without fuel.





That extra couple gallons of fuel could save your life. I was about 25km up an ice bush road last winter (and the start of that road was over 100km from the nearest gas station). I idled into a sharp switchback and the truck, well she didn't want to turn. Just about ended up sliding into to weeds. No cell service and very little traffic. If I got stuck, worst case scenario I'd have had to stay with the truck all night and walk out to the main road to flag down some help in the daylight. I keep a winter survival kit as well as a big lunch during winter because you never know. I keep a can of bear spray in my truck too. It works on more than just bears. It'll help deter other animals (and crackheads) that get too close for comfort.

 

My head hurts from reading this.

Redrover, just read what is said here form those who have faced all of this many times before. Don't try to defend yourself because as admirable as your defense is, it really comes down to your decision making process is flawed and having people criticize you is better than you actually getting into a fatality and then dealing with the outcome of that, which could easily have happened.

 

Did I miss something? What do the police have anything to do with this? You left the scene of a accident.

 

I laughed for a good 10 minutes after reading that. Funniest thing I've heard in awhile.