been broke down all weekend, should i take my 34hr?

well duh? So if your talking on the phone, eating a sandwhich or picking up something off the floor and you are in an accident, seems as though you may have done something to prevent the crash. The camera will show that. With no camera, your doing everything correctly and it is your burden to prove you weren't eating a sandwhich, talking on the phone, or picking something off the floor in the event of a crash because you know as well as I do the big truck will get blamed. It's funny how the highway patrol acts different (as well as the lawyers) when you bust out the film and prove it was not your fault. Good stuff!

 

I think I qualify as a professional driver and I will tell this and you can take it to the bank. Don't know how long your log lady has been auditing but will tell you this she has ZERO actual log experience, that gives her a totally different aspect of the rules and regs. Also if every carrier was audited every year most of them would be operating under a consent order.

 

You can go back and CORRECT a log even after you have signed it, but that is another whole debate, to sign at beginning or end of day.

 

SRSD is right, most people auditing the log books are either just scanning them and a 3rd party is advising about over speeds and the like. They don't have a lot if any practical experience in logging. And even if they make a decision and say something is o.k. and it goes bad, guess what the driver is hooked and the log auditor says "I never said that". Experience is obviously the best teacher and a 50 year driver certainly knows something!

I still don't understand why you (o/p) asked for instruction when all you have been is combative??

 

today is my 8th day off, thinking about rejecting my 34 restart so i can run off recaps and do a 34 this friday.

 

Sorry for your troubles..it may have already been stated but,Whats wrong w truck?

 

If TMC is that concerned about price why don't they overnight one from their own shop and just pay labor. Are you being paid for all this time setting there?

 

8 days off you can do another one friday anyway
you can start a reset 168 hours after last one started
I hope you were being sarcastic
but there are people that confuse this every day

 

Sorry to burst your bubble...but most of those people in the office are generally just out of college and don't know a thing about trucks....listen to the people who deal with this daily...drivers...