Got violation for not putting the taxi time on duty??????????/

No, it doesn't make sense, just another way for them to get you.

 

i never said it made sense
but theory is your assigned the load once company is paying you
to go to the truck
if your in your car going to the terminal your not assigned on a load until you get there

 

Seems like their gripe was how did you get from the yard to the recovery place...?
Im guessing that's where your log started...

My question is if you were in a RIG instead of a taxi would you have logged it the same?

 

If you went to your terminal, and then got a cab to go pick up a truck, you are on duty. Even if you got a ride in another drivers truck, or the shop foreman took you in the company pickup, you are on duty. Had you went straight from home to the truck, you wouldn't be on duty, no matter how you got there. I know it is silly, but it is the law.

 

I think you could argue that since you were not driving and in the back seat it should count as off duty time. You werent responsible for any load and free to persue you own agenda.

 

But wasn't he doing duties as directed by his company?

 

Was the company paying for the taxi and the time that you were in it? If it was all on your own dime, I would think it's off duty. If it was all on the companies dime, it's on duty.

It's still jacked up chicken scratch.

 

It was on duty not driving (line 4). Here you go:


§ 395.1: Scope of rules in this part
j) Travel time—(1) When a property-carrying commercial motor vehicle driver at the direction of the motor carrier is traveling, but not driving or assuming any other responsibility to the carrier, such time must be counted as on-duty time unless the driver is afforded at least 10 consecutive hours off duty when arriving at destination, in which case he/she must be considered off duty for the entire period.
(2) When a passenger-carrying commercial motor vehicle driver at the direction of the motor carrier is traveling, but not driving or assuming any other responsibility to the carrier, such time must be counted as on-duty time unless the driver is afforded at least 8 consecutive hours off duty when arriving at destination, in which case he/she must be considered off duty for the entire period.

 

Well I never. I probably would have logged off duty as well. Good to know.

 

sounds like another broke state hungry for money.... or nervous officer worried about being a budget cut by the state. plus with fewer trucks on the road. it's less money they get to make in tickets. so they have to take what they can get.