Glad I moved over to Poly Trucking

Thanks. I certainly can lose more & am doing so. If you are going to empty out in the Houston area you can request one of those loads, although they can be hard to get as most other drivers are doing the same.

 

Well just hit with the old random drug alcohol test. First time in 3 years so can't complain about and got paid for 2 hours while waiting on my load to get ready so a win win I suppose. Only had 3 choices for out bound, 1 to Beaverdam, WI (4 stopper), Grovepoint, OH (4 stopper) and Galesburg, MI (4 stopper). Unfortunately they all included just WM and Target stops but spaced out ok so it shouldn't be a problem just not a lot of miles as I finish out on Monday afternoon. I selected the Michigan one with a stop in Jamestown, MO, Indy, IN, Coldriver, MI and Galesburg, MI. Haven't done any of those before.

Anyone get back your logs marked up in red for not including all the time at the shipper/customer? I always mark 15 minutes for checking in and 15 minutes checking out but they were circling the area to have all that time in between loading/unloading as on duty instead of the sleeper where I put it. I also got dinged for a 5 mile trip into shipper the following morning where I pulled up for a parking spot and logged as checking in as I usually do (Officially illegitimate I know but never had any problem with it before). Actually no one said anything just handed me back the printouts but perhaps they are analyzing things more closely or perhaps it was just a random selection. Anyone else got these on a regular basis in two or more times getting back your paperwork?

 

Not me, yet anyways. I think someone who doesn't know log book regs very well got marker happy. If that happens to me I'm going straight to Jerry.

 

Yeah I didn't sweat it since no one said anything directly to me, they just handed me my pay receipts etc with it. Had plans on reaching Durant, OK tonight for some poker but the old load wasn't ready in time. Pulled up in Anna, TX and got my grilling in just in the nick of time as a thunderstorm rolled through the area.

 

I haven't had anyone give me anything like that yet. I'm with JD on this one. Someone doesn't understand the regs. I'm guessing they feel you should be on line four at the customer but line 2 is the exception to that rule since it places you in that location no matter your working status. How can anyone tell you being in the sleeper isn't ok? Hello, it's the one with no grey area. Your physical location is in the sleeper which overides any other status. To log line 4 while in the sleeper is NOT a true Log entry. Please understand I would log it just as you say you did. I have no doubt about your ability to log. I'm kind of speaking with you in typing those words as to say...What do they want us to do with Logs given back like that? I mean...How does one fix that without changing the rest of your Logs until your next restart which is all messed up by changing sleeper time to on duty time and so on? What are you doing with them now? I'll get a ton of Logs back if that's how they're doing things now. I'm going to need more than someone just handing me some marked up Logs. What the F word is that??? I really hope someone isn't serious with that crap. Not good if they are. Sure hope they don't hand me some back when I get to GP. Geez! I'm fired up just thinking about it! Thanks for the info. and I'll be sure and let you know if I get some back. Take care out there!

 

Got unloaded in Houston this afternoon then went to Pol-Tex to pick up a transfer load to Henderson. From there I will be going to Sumner,WA for a friday morning delivery. Will probably get a RoadRunner load from there back to Texas. Anyways I'll be busy.

 

Most definitely , if your in the bunk at walmart logging it on duty is falsification . They want me to sit drivers seat and log it , they're gonna pay me hrly upon arrival. If not ... well lets just say I'll do what I feel is best for the company and me , sometimes when they start being ridiculous its time to start hunting. I won't play around with this suck up to the govt. B.S. at my expense , guys are being forced these days to get outor apply for their own operating # and become a true O/O , although I think the days of freedom as an owner are nearing an end.

 

have not had a sleeper for a long time
last i heard you gotta log 30 minutes on duty not driving for an unload. i believe two separate 15 minute on duty periods would be unsat. i dont study the regs but notice some changes. also 30 minutes on duty to load.
the 30 minute rest break after 8 hours seems pretty micky mouse. we have no sleeper and work 12 hour shifts. we were logging all our not driving time on duty now we have to log 30 minutes off duty even though we are in the truck at a customer

 

Check the customers you were at pertaining to the customers in question. If its a broker ld , company policy is we're on the dock during ld+unld ... If they tell ya you're not allowed on the dock , 1st question you have for them should be are you gonna allow SL+C on the bills , providing they say yes , notify backhaul and the broker that you're not allowed on the dock and SL+C is okay. It also doesn't hurt to leave M.Crowder a msg saying they don't allow the driver in the building while being unld'd or loaded , and your logging it in the bunk which is where you're at.
Also , if your at a chemical plant that deals with HazMat nobody likes to see bunk at a chem plant "NO ONE" I pulled H/M many years and its best to show on duty. Here's what I usually do , if it takes me 3 hrs at a chem plnt , I'll put myself line 1 or 2 til like the last 30 to 45 minutes depending on how much I'm getting or unlding. Note: less than 20 plts usually 30 , 20 or more 45 , to make it believable. The qcom can not pin point whether your inside the property or just outside it. If you log 30 to 45 min's loading there , you eliminate the 15 min check in and 15 min check out , those are only technicalities to when you're goin in the bunk in between. Quite often I eliminate that question of the bunk by showing 2 hrs off duty or a nap , then 45 minutes loading at a chemical plant. And have never been questioned. I've driven Tanks that put you on the clock upon arrival to unld bulk , it is what it is in this case , your on the clock , and log it on duty regardless of if you're bunk or not. You can be in bunk at a chem plant if given the okay by unloaders or loaders , although your company absolutely doesn't allow it for safety reasons. If questioned later about whether you were in the bunk or in the drivers seat only the galactically insane would admit they were bunk when indeed pd by the hr to be in the driver seat. I myself at some real gnarly places that deal with some funky stuff , I just plant my butt in the drivers seat , there I sit and can run in the event of a vapor cloud , in the bunk I may be found after the fact , a corpse !

 

OOPS , I can't say I been logging the 30 min's after 8 , oops ! Best I guess I start ... thanks slick I mean slim !