CVSA wants FMCSA to limit personal conveyance

It never ends...I'd like to follow around sometime someone who works at these bureaus. Just to see what they do all day, 40 hours a week.

 

I stay out for three months at a time. Do you think I use PC alot? You betcha I do. I don't sit at the terminal on my 34's.

 

If people would read the guidance like it's written instead of reading what they want into it that's not there a time limit isn't needed.
Problem is people are abusing it because they read what isn't there because they care more about money than safety.

 

On Facebook someone was talking about how he got to the receiver the night before his appointment. The manager told him he was leaving soon, and would take him then. He then proceeded to go home on PC.

Now the intentions of the guidance are fairly clear, but the language is specific, and gives one an out. Number 3 of the non- acceptable PC is leaving after delivering, but the end of the paragraph says "at the direction of the motor carrier". Might one argue "I went home at my own direction, against the carrier's wishes"?

 

Time and distance limits set by the FMCSA would eliminate DOT inspectors using their "discretion".

I will never get over being put out of service for using too much PC. I asked the inspector how much I was allowed and he wouldn't answer. Just said "You use it too much, more than what other drivers use" and wasn't interested in any further clarification.

For the record, my company allows 3hrs per day and I have never even come close to that.

 

I did say that essentially PC is a move that you would normally use your pov. You wouldn't in most cases leave the truck at a receiver, so you shouldn't be able to use PC in that case.

 

I found it. It's in the questions and answer guidance. Explicitly prohibited

 

I said right from the start of their e-log foolishness that truck drivers should get electronic monitoring right after after anyone who gets payed with taxpayers money got it.

 

Idiots through the years have asked for the fmcsa to comment on PC, which most of us knew this would lead to confusion and eventually a hard regulation about it, so they asked for it and will get it.