What do you do when you can's stay where you're at but have no hors left to move

This happened to me the other day... I was on a 14 hour schedule that ran from 4am - 6pm.

I loaded at a place that WOULD NOT allow parking...when I got there I had 3 hours driving time and 4 hours on my 14.

It was a preloaded trailer (I hate those) and I didn't like the way it was loaded at all...no good way to stop forward movement in the event that i had to stop in a hurry (it happens...and you don't play around with this when hauling steel). It was also waaay heavier on one side than it was the other.

I didn't have to complain about it to get it rearranged...the shipping boss noticed me standing there looking at it (thinking to myself...there's no way in hell I'm moving that with it loaded like that)...anyway, thats another story.

By the time it was loaded safely and I had it secured and tarped, it was about 2130...I drove to the Flyin J which was 5.2 miles away...I didn't see any other option.

Are there any rules in the regs that allow for times such as this??? (I think I know the answer...just asking anyway) And don't preach to me about trip planning please...I'm better at that most I have seen (no brag, just fact )

I knew that the 4am - 6pm schedule was gonna catch up with me eventually, and tried like hell to get on a 5am - 7pm schedule all week...but truck services, appointment times, accidents holding up traffic, etc. kept me from doing it.

What do you do when it happens to you???

The reason I ask??? Because I'm on a mission to log EVERYTHING legal and like I run it...it was working too until this came along.

A year ago...I would have left the shipper and drove all the way to Michigan without a 2nd thought. I don't want to do things that way anymore...too risky to me, my family, and yours.

 

I was in the same town the whole time. I told the company my situation and what I was going to do several hours before it actually happened...figured it was better to tell them up front than to have them catch it when they compare my qualcomm data to my logbooks.

I waited until the next day to send in the "leaving shipper" macro...thinking maybe it would throw it off track a bit (not sure if it will or not)

I just don't want to get any points out of it if Safety catches it...I did the best and safest thing I could do. (to my knowledge anyway)