AAA Cooper

88 Alpha · Oct 12, 2019

11.75 hrs Thursday
12.75 hrs today.

No complaints from me. I had to take the first 3 days off due to the finger injury. I'm loving this new gig.

McUzi · Oct 13, 2019

Kstrong86 said: ↑

Man they sure are keeping you busy. Sounds like some long days. But I bet it’s fun when you get off the dock and get to interact with the customers. I’m not quite knowledgeable in this department but I could be wrong and anyone please correct me if I’m wrong. I thought you could only use the 16 hour exception rule once a week. My last company when I was local with them could only use it once a week and my father who works for FXF says he can only use it once a week if need be and he’s been with them for 22 years so I know he wouldn’t steer me wrong. So I would be careful if your terminal is allowing you to do that.
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You can use the 16 more than once a week, you just need to have a 34 in between each use.
From FMCSA:

If you usually come back to your work-reporting location and go home at the end of your workday, you might be able to use the 16-hour short-haul exception. This exception allows you to extend the 14-consecutive-hour driving window to 16 hours once every 7 consecutive days. In order to use this exception, you must do the following:
• You must return to your work reporting location that day, as well as for your last 5 duty tours. A duty tour is the period of time from when you come to work to when you leave work. It is your “workday,” the time between your off-duty periods of at least 10 consecutive hours.
• You must be released from duty within 16 hours after coming on duty.
• You must only use this exception once every 7 consecutive days (unless you took 34 consecutive hours off to restart a 7/8-day period).
You may not use this exception if you qualify for the “Non-CDL Short Haul Exception” explained earlier.
This regulation is found in Section 395.1(o).
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Matt1924 · Oct 13, 2019

Texas_hwy_287 said: ↑

@Matt1924 im curious, why is your volvo missing part of your bumper.
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Good question! The answer is I'm not sure, its the same on the drivers side. I checked it out and its just a narrower bumper than some of the other ones. Then again, most of the newer ones have the fairings and plastic parts that fill in there, this one being about an '03, might have come like this.

Matt1924 · Oct 13, 2019

Kstrong86 said: ↑

Man they sure are keeping you busy. Sounds like some long days. But I bet it’s fun when you get off the dock and get to interact with the customers. I’m not quite knowledgeable in this department but I could be wrong and anyone please correct me if I’m wrong. I thought you could only use the 16 hour exception rule once a week. My last company when I was local with them could only use it once a week and my father who works for FXF says he can only use it once a week if need be and he’s been with them for 22 years so I know he wouldn’t steer me wrong. So I would be careful if your terminal is allowing you to do that.
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You're right, I only get a chance to use it once a week since we work M-F and its usually used on Monday, have used it several Mondays already. I should have been more specific.

Kstrong86 · Oct 13, 2019

McUzi said: ↑

You can use the 16 more than once a week, you just need to have a 34 in between each use.
From FMCSA:
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Good point thanks for clearing that up but I highly doubt any local companies will let you take a 34 hour reset in the middle of the week. And if they do I don’t know how someone is surviving with that company. Can’t make any money sitting on 34 in the middle of the week.

Texas_hwy_287 · Oct 13, 2019

You can always run recaps.

McUzi · Oct 13, 2019

Kstrong86 said: ↑

Good point thanks for clearing that up but I highly doubt any local companies will let you take a 34 hour reset in the middle of the week. And if they do I don’t know how someone is surviving with that company. Can’t make any money sitting on 34 in the middle of the week.
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Generally when I use a 16, I’m taking the next day off using personal time because if I burned a 16, then I didn’t get home until after 12pm the next day, and I’m not going to be well rested to show back up for work at 8:15. There’s a 34 right there in the middle of the week.

Kstrong86 · Oct 16, 2019

McUzi said: ↑

Generally when I use a 16, I’m taking the next day off using personal time because if I burned a 16, then I didn’t get home until after 12pm the next day, and I’m not going to be well rested to show back up for work at 8:15. There’s a 34 right there in the middle of the week.
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10-4 thanks for that explanation.

Kstrong86 · Oct 16, 2019

Texas_hwy_287 said: ↑

You can always run recaps.
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Yea that’s what I do. I run re caps lol

Texas_hwy_287 · Oct 16, 2019

@Kstrong86 how have you been brother.

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