Accepting Pre-Assignment While Away from Truck?

Sound like a situation where you need to call and talk to dispatch tell them your taking the load but your off duty and cant enter it in the system.

 

1) As long as you want, it doesn't matter when you accept it...

2) No....

Roll on....

 

Load was sent with the understanding you were on home time correct?

Acceptance, they want it immediately. They can get stuffed though. IN the truck I wait til I am in the process of actualizing a load. All done right then. Never heard a thing from anyone.

 

My understanding is accepting only verifies you've seen the load info.

Once it's sent to your truck it's yours unless SNI pulls it.

Accepting it is irrelevant to it being assigned.

 

If you look at a load assignment while off duty you are now back on duty by definition. Reset that clock

 

Thats the great thing about our driver portal and its mobile version cousin. No need to report or call in.

 

Unless it's changed on duty per FMCSA is defined as any time other than driving you are compensated for to also include fueling, accident or Dot inspection as well as pre and post trip.

But I concede it could've changed.

 

Accepting doesn't mean anything. One of the hugest fights I ever had with SNI was when they put a stupid Wal-Mart relay load on me while I was in chicago, at a different Wal-Mart dc 50 miles away on a Friday night with less than 2 hours on my 14, with no empty trailer.

I called up and refused the load as I would run out of time and you couldn't sleep there or ANYWHERE around there.
I then got snottily told that I couldn't refuse it as SNI is forced dispatch. I replied that I never accepted' the load.
I then got laughed at and was told that it doesn't mean anything and that I had to at least pick it up or I would get a service failure.
TTR won't allow me to type what I replied afterward.