Elog and bobtail questions

There was a driver on here talking about how they drove an additional 3 hour a day using PC while loaded.

 

There's a SWIFT company driver who comments about being allowed to leave company terminals in his bobtail to go shopping and hometime but must record the time as Driving-- @Moosetek13

 

If you were on your ten hour break and you drive around the yard looking for a trailer; you were on duty!

 

I agree with that technically but any time we can gain a little tiny advantage over HOS which will translate to dollars, I say go for it.

 

How you figure? If I has been driving around the lot looking for a better parking spot, then I woulda been off duty.

 

Pretty much how we all do it today. Once you are dispatched/ loaded, you are laden according to the regs. Usually before you are empty they are force preplanning you on your next load, so soon as you send in Empty Call you are immediately dispatched on your next load. Technically you are then again "laden" even though you are empty, going to your next load is advancing toward it which is written into the regs as a no-no for using PC.

So what we try to do is stop to take care of stuff along our dispatched routes. Here's a great example, I am loaded in Florida bound for Texas, I stopped in Alabama and took a 2 hour break to visit the USS Alabama.

 

How so? Driving is defined as all time at the controls of a cmv. And don't try and say pc, as you are not doing either of the two things in the guidance for pc.

 

Sure I am on pc.