PC - somewhere between use and abuse

Real life cases that are not suggested in the FMCSA guidances about PC use:

Well let's say it is all hypothetical...lol
Case 1. I was 30 minutes before the end of my 11 and 14. I went from VA to IN. the delivery was to Valapariaso, IN. I arrived in Gary, IN at Petro. It was Friday night and the delivery was on Monday. Lots of empty spots there....I switched to Off duty PC and went home arriving past 1 hour on my 11 and 14 hours. No violations were shown on my Keeptruckin app. The move was not advancing me toward the receiver nor - in form or fashion - helped me business wise. Quite the contrary: Additional 140 miles both ways and about $70 in tolls. I did not gain any additional HOS time either.
Should I have waited there until 5 am in the morning and move after 8 hours? But.... nowhere does it say that I need to do that...it just says that I can't drive while fatigued. Well...I was not. I wanted to go home and eat a hot supper and sleep in my King-size bed in total silence, I hated the thought of staying there ... in stinking Gary, IN.

Additional cases are welcome...

 

No point of crawling under 5mph. Every little positional change is inserted into the darn outputfile...so you move 3 mph to a shipping dock ...hoping not to interrupt that 2 hours of sleeper...now way Jose. It won't show on your log but it will show in the output file. Some brutal and hateful DOT can even say that it is a "false log" and put you OOS for 10 hours...
Case2. Yes. You've been there for 6.5 hours and you're told to get the hell out of the dock. Are you going to waste your sleeper time by going down on line 4 and logging "Check out shipper/receiver: Signing BOLs and closing the trailer door"? What if you just continue the sleeper by going to a rest place on PC disragarding 3 -5 minutes of that check out procedure ...Pretending, it did not happen or it had happened before you switched to sleeper... (e.i. you pre signed the BOL before you got loaded) still who closed your door before you left the facility is the question that remains? Some places can do it - you back in the dock with closed door and then you leave the dock loaded, doors closed and sealed. Would you not be tempted to do that...vs going to a rest place for at least another 8 hours? That's of course a false log. But is it the purpose of the HOS to put you down to sleeper for another 8 hours really and does it make sense?

 

Yes. I deliberately stoped at Petro well over 1 hour before my 11 and 14 expired because otherwise I knew I would have run out of hours.

 

However, I researched that and nowhere did I find anything other than you can't drive while fatigued or that the move could not extend HOS for the purpose of re-positioning the truck for the business advantage. I do realize, however, that the sole purpose of HOS is to limit the driving time per day and per 8 days. Yet, since it does not dictate any limits as to what time of a day or what radius, I took liberty to go home. They should have stated clearly that if you are X hours before your 10 or 14 (or perhaps even 70) but you already stopped for your break then you can use PC for personal use only but it should not exceed X - ie remaining hours before mandatory break.

 

They (people with common sense) keep telling that PC is for small staff e.i. going to a Motel, Cinema, Walmart....never do they say if there is any relation to the remaining or available hours of service while the PC is exercised. "Small staff" is 30 minutes drive home too. But as far as I am concerned 130 miles is small too. Yes!
Case3. PC Home...what if I can't take the whole rig home? I rent a spot...not exactly terminal nor home either. Well...someone can tell me I did not go home...I went to a parking spot, which is my terminal. I'd say no...terminal is when the boss is and mechanics check out you truck. That's where you drop the trailer and turn in you paperwork. The spot is an extension of my home. I can't physically park the rig on my driveway. LOL

 

I know it is all up to a state trooper who would stop me on I 294 Northbound and better not to test it. I will, however, treat PC as such e.i. strict personal use that is evidently separated from any operation gain. Also, I'll have to treat my truck parking location as my home location, not a terminal because if it is considered a terminal, I'd be at a permanent disadvantage. Besides, a real terminal move clearly puts a driver and his company into an operational gain. For instance, a company may encourage a driver to PC to their terminal in order to cross dock a trailer or perform mechanical work. That may be agianst what the driver wants to do on his Personal Conveyance. That's what I think was intend by FMCSA by prohibiting the move to terminal. I only gain access to my persona vehicle. Like I said, I dont want to test it anywhere but I'll stick to my line of reasoning if need be.
Funny thing is we need a better definition of what a terminal is too.