Parking on on/off ramps per State

Depends on who your employer is...mine will write you up for that and repeat performances will get you canned.

 

The 11th hour was never meant for production driving, it was meant for looking for a parking spot.

 

I'm getting unloaded now at Staples D.C. in Beliot, WI., appointment was at 2300. I arrived around 2100 with about an hour left on my 14.
Fly J and Pilot are full. Looks like I will do a 10 hr on the ramp.
These weird appointments and then they tell you to leave property when finished load/unload.

 

Just don't park on ramps around Milwaukee if you ever deliver there cops will run you off

 

Poor trip planning does not a valid emergency make. You cannot use that special exception like more than once a year and the situation that delays you has to be truly exceptional AND EASILY researched via newspaper articles, Police Dept Press releases etc. So you can prove it

I had a Darden Dispatcher tell me after puffing up like peacock under authority vested in her (Bs, oh the tears inducing BS...) that I should break my HOS for her that day and complete the last red lobster delivery.

I stood up to her in that Aberdeen Maryland facility in front of three others and said, BFS. She paled. Then turned purple. I told her further, save your anger. I am not the one you need concern yourself with. By the time I finished she was past purple and heading into a nice shade of red.

 

How many points on your DAC is illegal parking? One. How great will you sleep 18 inches from the road? Will you get side swiped or pu a nail? No sometimes they dont enforce but best to avoid.

Forget about experimenting with GPS devices they will log violations automatically, even if at a customer.

 

Absolutely! That portion of the law was created to "safe guard" drivers from HOS violations, in order to get to the closest safe haven, in the event of exigent circumstances such as weather emergencies, being stuck in stand-still or slow traffic due to a wreck, etc., and other such situations. It was NOT designed to be used for poor trip planning! If you get stopped after your 14 runs out, you're 22 minutes from the Pilot....after having driven past a, b, and c locations where you could have parked, and you try explaining a lack of proper planning as the reason to a DOT officer........I would love to see that reaction.

 

Using the 8/2 split I try to trip plan so that I arrive about 5 hours more or less early to customer, show a few minutes on duty for arrival then go to sleeper. About 5 hours later roll into customer to get unloaded still in sleeper then they get me unloaded or loaded in about 3 hours or so I have the 8 hour split done, not 100% legal by the book but it looks good enough for elogs. Same thing we used to do on paper logs.

 

And most of us never use it because it is up to the discretion of a state trooper, who may just decide you need to do a 34hr reset, that begins after a level 'X' inspection, as they review all your logs for the past seven days at the scale house two miles down the road because they know you drove 700 miles that day.

Not guaranteed, but would that be worth it? Not to me. You wont keep your CDL.

 

Lol! Autocorrect sucks!!!! Lol

 

No you can't. Not within the regs.