The Fuel Hauler Thread

Why would you take 3 breaks when you only need 1 mandatory 30 min break? Specially if you are locally. If you otr then I would be more concerned about my 70

 

Like I said, I’m doing it to save my 70.

 

Why would you take 3 breaks when only one 30 minute break is mandatory? I don’t even worry about my 70 specially if you local only time I worry bout that is if I’m gonna work a 6th day then I need to make sure I have enough time for what ever loads they give me

 

There’s a few otr tanker drivers that go off duty for everything but pre/post and drive time and they have never had problems.
I don’t think it’s a huge deal but guess I wanted to see what y’all had to say about it.

That’s exactly why I’m trying to save my 70. I do 6 days a week... been close a couple times.

 

Do you get paid for your off duty time? If you're in a local furl hauling gig and you need to work 70 to make a living you're working for the wrong company.

 

Otr you can get away with it because you can log 15 on duty for unloading and the rest off duty and if you’re ever questioned you just respond it was a customer load/unload. But with local, especially local fuel that won’t work.

 

I’m paid by the load. Make about 75k working 5 on 2 off, but I make 85-90k working 6 on 1 off.

 

The rules for otr vs. local don’t differ. Otr cant drive past 14 hours on duty.. so I’m not sure where you came up with that.
The only time otr would differ from local was if the local driver fell under the short haul exemption.