Docking during 10 hour

Not with me because I'm not taking the bait!

 

Feels like deja screw. LOL

 

I'm not a fan of 84 hours a week, 70 seems like plenty to me. The idea of simply 11 driving, 14 on duty per calendar day, occurring whenever driver wants these things to occur, and get rid of tracking sleeper berth altogether, just have on duty, driving and off duty. Of course, this will be abused by companies since under the current regime, they kind of have to schedule to allow a 10 hour off period, take that away and drivers might miss it.

What we are essentially arriving at, since the regulators among us are trying to figure out how to modify regulation to better fit reality, is the need for some type of "move the truck" slush fund so we don't destroy our schedules over a 5 minute or 30 minute truck move.

I'm not sure all scenarios can be accounted for.

A possible solution under the present regine, might be say 2 hours per week "free time" which allows movement of the truck without modifying anything on the ELD. Certainly there shouldn't typically be more than 2 hours a week of this sort of thing, of course sometimes there inevitably would be for someone.

Just sputballing here, haven't really thought through the implications.

 

You work for FMCSA?

 

Your Avatar makes me laugh!

I can kind of see why in the old days they didn't smile for pictures. Kind of hard to take it seriously with a big ####e eating grin.

Very funny!

 

Yes I was going to say the same thing till I read your post the one I have allows you to go 15 km per hour while still officially saying your at rest anything over 15 and it will cancel out and revert back to work. So you'll have to drive really slowly which your supposed to do anyway at a ware house although technically are working while your driving right but your secrets safe with me huh?
PS just for the conversion 15 km per hour is about 9 mph.

 

I'm thinking a simple implementation might be to allow up to 2 hours of on duty or driving time per 70 hour cycle or 8 day period during sleeper berth or off duty periods that does not affect the drivers clock.

This could be logged using PC and a comment, which is how inclimate weather provision is also logged as I understand it.

Or a different code than PC like "FT", with an appropriate accompanying definition in the code, but it affects ELD clocks the same as PC.

This would go a long way to allowing an operation with say 1 truck from having to fudge their log and risk tarnishing their authority. I imagine a solo, after going to all the trouble and expense to get their own authority would appreciate it.

 

I find this whole thread a bit funny.

If I did find myself at a shipper/receiver and they made me wait long enough to have to take a ten before they could give me a dock, then they would wait until my 12 hour break was finished and I was ready to go back to work.

I will not pander to those people.
I get there on time as scheduled. If they can not do the job on their end, that is their problem - not mine.

And I also do not accept loads that are likely to put me in that situation in the first place.

 

On duty yard move, or on duty log out then reject driving time when you log back in,

or run paper

 

It does not matter. You're going to split birth. Drive line or on duty line same results. So check will pair and bump the dock.