Do you shutdown when the 14 hour clock is up no matter what?

Very rarely do I go over, but when I must it is never while working. Only to roll to safe haven parking. Which is my house!

Mikeeee

 

You sit there and wait for a load assignment.Keep an eye on your hrs and if you're getting near your 14 hr mark maybe within a 2 hr window,you tell your dispatch you're going to find a place close and call it a day because im about out of hrs.

 

and folks think this is a good way for a driver to conduct himself?

scared to drive 20 minutes over his 14

must sit at a shipper or reciever for 10 hours

all because some government bureaucrat says he is too tired to drive?

and yet, his fellow drivers condemn him because he refuses to submit to this foolishness

 

And now hopefully the OP will learn from this lesson of proper trip planning and load acceptance because of all that can go wrong.

Do you bust the rules and drive over the limit? But what if you can't take a break at the customer?

Do you adhere to the rules and stay within the limit? Maybe get a service failure. What if the customer can't fit you in has to reschedule to more inconvenient time?

You can't win sometimes. Some of us take the gamble and it works in our favor but sometimes it don't.

Regardless, make a decision and own it.

 

Not scared at all but if you have like 2 hrs left its going to take longer then that to get to your next assignment get loaded and find a place for your 10.

 

patty,

i think its because i dont look at my work as a job, but as a responsibility, and we have a contractual obligation to our customers to get their freight where they want it to be, where they are paying for it to be, on time

most folks consider not doing that a "service failure"

so that being the case, when i leave the shipper, i pretty much know that i have time to get it there, BUT if for some reason, i am delayed, i cant see how 20 minutes or 20 miles warrants me sitting for an entire 10 hours, (lets make it a friday and they dont open till monday) or i already have another load to pick up the next morning

the law is there for safety (i am being nice) so if i can safely deliver the load, i dont see the problem, nor does any other rational, free thinking individual

 

I would NEVER go over my 14 or 11 hour rule, in the past with paper logs yea I would however all you need is another person to hit your truck at a light, or run a red light, anything that is there fault, you will be at FAULT because you went over your hours. You will lose your job if something happens, however you can not loose your job do to the fact that you will driver beyond your HOS. " No company shall require or permit a driver to drive" ... look under FMCSR section 3925., 392.6, and 393.5

 

So,you have a price to break the law......
Seems kinda hypocritical to me.....Just sayn'

 

In the past, yea I did have a price. I remember the times when the broker gave me a few hundred extra for getting the load there earlier. So yea I am not denying I sold out but with the elogs I actual make more money because I am forcing my self to be more productive, and with the 34 hr reset you can drive every day if you use it correctly.

 

Yes we do have an obligation and that's where dispatch comes into play.Why should they put drivers on the line to pick up or deliver freight if dispatch knows they're not going to have the legal hrs to do so.Its their obligation to find the driver that does have the legal hrs then everyone is happy.You start running without no hrs then dispatch is going to think you'll do that all the time and start depending on you.But it is your responsibility to communicate with dispatch on the hrs you have also.If you don't then yes I can see where a service failure comes in especially when you tell dispatch after you commit to the load and after youre out of hrs that you don't have the hrs to pick up the load.