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

Do you think drivers actually log hometime duties after releaved from their company?

 

He's referring to

On-duty time means all time from the time a driver begins to work or is required to be in readiness to work until the time the driver is relieved from work and all responsibility for performing work. On-duty time shall include:
(1) All time at a plant, terminal, facility, or other property of a motor carrier or shipper, or on any public property, waiting to be dispatched, unless the driver has been relieved from duty by the motor carrier;
(2) All time inspecting, servicing, or conditioning any commercial motor vehicle at any time;
(3) All driving time as defined in the term driving time;
(4) All time in or on a commercial motor vehicle, other than:
(i) Time spent resting in or on a parked vehicle, except as otherwise provided in § 397.5 of this subchapter;
(ii) Time spent resting in a sleeper berth; or
(iii) Up to 2 hours riding in the passenger seat of a property-carrying vehicle moving on the highway immediately before or after a period of at least 8 consecutive hours in the sleeper berth;
(5) All time loading or unloading a commercial motor vehicle, supervising, or assisting in the loading or unloading, attending a commercial motor vehicle being loaded or unloaded, remaining in readiness to operate the commercial motor vehicle, or in giving or receiving receipts for shipments loaded or unloaded;
(6) All time repairing, obtaining assistance, or remaining in attendance upon a disabled commercial motor vehicle;
(7) All time spent providing a breath sample or urine specimen, including travel time to and from the collection site, to comply with the random, reasonable suspicion, post-crash, or follow-up testing required by part 382 of this subchapter when directed by a motor carrier;
(8) Performing any other work in the capacity, employ, or service of, a motor carrier; and
(9) Performing any compensated work for a person who is not a motor carrier.

 

Every minute of it

 

I actually brought this up to a driver once that said he worked another part time job, just to have my "manager" say "nobody cares about that except for you". It was pretty fantastic.

 

logging is like the IRS
you can write down anything until you get audited

 

every weekend we come home with a load. it delivers the following week. which means we are dispatched the whole entire weekend. under a load.

i park the truck in yard. and i'm OFF DUTY HOMETIME. till i pick the truck back up. or recover, as some of you might say. LOL.

if i take the truck home. i log to home or shipper. and don't log till on duty unloading. i never flag the time it takes me to get from home to destination. 2 - 10 miles away.

 

Dot recently asked me why I didn't breakdown PTI time to show walk around time and hook up time separately, said it should be broke down, not just one block. I never heard of that. He didnt violate me.

 

He didn't violate you because he can't... no such rule. In fact, you do not have to show anything in Remarks other than the location of the duty status change. You don't have to show PTI, fueling, loading / unloading, etc. There is no rule requiring it. However, some companies may have a policy requiring it, but that's different.

 

I knew that but also knew It wasn't the battle to pick! Been married 27yrs, I have a good gut for these things lolol!

 

There's the rules then there is reality. The DOT world is built on time stamps and paper trails. If those are absent then...............................................


I believe it's important the newbs learn the right way and then the rest is on them. Do as I say not as I do type deal!

If the forum didn't have discussions and debates it would be boring!

395.7 Newbies that break the rules can be taken to the shed out back and violated!