E-Logs..... have they (government) ironed out all the wrinkles or ?

Lol... Yeah you can go off duty... But that 14 hr clock keeps ticking away. I drove a whopping 30 miles today from TS to receiver and back to TS... The receiver is closed today (only office and maintenance personnel working) so I have to wait until tomorrow to unload... But that 40 minutes screwed me out of a chance to get a 34 hr reset, that had I gotten I could have taken my next load clear to the receiver instead of handing it off to another driver for the last 500 miles. And for those that are thinking I should have called the receiver... This receiver is horrible about answering a phone or returning a message. I tried 5 calls and 2 messages over a 4 hour time frame. Did me no good.

 

Reciever is where you deliver a load (they "receive" your load)... With 34 consecutive hours of off duty your 70 hour clock is reset to a fresh 70 hours.

I think you best just worry about learning about the hos rules and regs, and how to drive before you get to worried about the eld to much... In fact the eld will probably keep you from screwing up you log book, which can get you in big trouble depending on what you did wrong. Just my opinion.

 

@LeavinHome2018 thats the whole point of the eld... Is that its harder to work off the clock and get away with it.

If you do anything off the clock related to that truck, especially drive it, you are asking for big trouble to come knocking on your door.

Edit: removed incorrect HOS example.... Man I must have been more tired than I realized.

 

I got lucky....Never had to be on the dock for loading and unloading. In fact while at the shipper receiver I would check in then go to bed. Was on sleep birth that whole time. Kept 14 going, but my 11 was intact.

 

This is how I do it as well.

 

Only way that makes sense to me.

 

5 hours to drive to customer, 5 hours to load you still have at least 3.0 hours of drive time remaining with a 30 minute break, and two 15 minute PTI's.
Loading would be on line 4 (on duty not driving).
Three hours gets you a long way down the road before your 14 is shot.