You technically still on duty while u waiting for them to load your trailer?

I worked several years ago at a company that said to log 15 minutes on duty and the rest was off duty in sleeper. But, when they came to the detention pay, they would not pay it since you were in the sleeper.

 

With many companies you're ###### if you do and ###### if you don't.They want you to log on duty to receive detention pay.Then for another load they ask why you dont have enough hrs to complete this trip.Then they still dispatch you the load you tell them you cant make it on time,well do the best you can they say.Then your late and service failure on your dac along with waiting hrs because you missed your appt and because what you told your dispatcher is as far as it goes.No communication on their part at time.I know the drill all too well.

 

So in the case of your company requiring you to log merely 15 minutes but it took you 30 minutes (as is the case with difficult backing scenarios and other stuff) what would you do? I log whatever it takes (talking about elogs here) but since we're saying here that company policy trumps FMCSA in certain cases; what about this case ....??

 

Same company told me the pretrip on a truck you had not seen for 2 days only takes 15 minutes. Told them to show me how. No takers. Logged it as it took.

 

Our company uses e-logs. There is a way to amend an e-log before you approve it, so if it may be that if I did the 15 minute OD time and switched to sleeper and then got into detention time, then I could simply amend that SB time to OD to get the detention pay. I'll fly this by my DM and see what he says.

 

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