10 Hour Rule - Company Phonecalls While Off-Duty

I don't think so, I just don't have a phone near me if I want people to leave me alone. I've lived in apartments where the next door neighbors are loud and party all night keeping me awake, and DOT says it's our problem to figure out how to get proper rest.

 

The office works during the day. That's when they are going to conduct their business.

You might talk to them and ask that they refrain from calling during the day...limit their calls to before a certain time before you would be climbing into bed or after a specified time closer to when your alarm would be going off anyway.

If that doesn't work, add a line to your cell phone plan for $10/month to use as an "emergency contact" phone. Only give that number out to family, friends, kid's school, etc. that you don't mind being awakened by. Keep that phone on near the bed where you can hear it if it rings, and then turn the ringer on the other phone off and keep it in the other room.

I guess it all depends upon how respectful of your rest periods your company is willing to be, and to what extent you are willing to go in order to be able to sleep through the nigh....errr....day.

 

Guidance from FMCSA follows:

 

First, assign a ringtone to dispatch. If you want to sleep thru the call make a quite one. but, just because the FMCSA says its legal does not mean you can not consider it as on duty time. restart your 10 hour break a few times from the point of their call and they will get the point. Contrary to popular belief a drivers HOS belong to the driver!

 

1. Change your home phone number.
2. Make sure the phone company does not provide the new number to those who dial the old number.
3. Make sure your daughter's school and any other agencies associated with her have the new number.
4. Tell you company that you no longer have a home phone, only a cell.
5. Turn your cell off when you go to sleep.

Problem solved.

 

My wife set up my phone so it only accepts calls or texts from certain numbers during certain hours. Your phone may have the same capability

 

A dedicated work line, pre paid or a second line on the cell account.
Give the new number only to people other than work as they will try the old number when you don't answer the new one.
When sleeping or off just silence the number work has and hope everyone else knows not to call. Voice mail will tell you what you need to know after a nap