Home time question

I request to be home Friday I have two days of home time coming to me. If I drive at all on Friday my hometime would then start on Saturday and I would come out of the house on Monday.

 

Consult your company manual, different companies have different rules.

All is trumped by HOS - if you don't have a restart, or enough roll over hours, you're not much good to them.

 

In many cases it will start as soon as your truck is parked, the post-trip inspection was completed, and you log-off on the computer or paper logs.

 

I live 10 miles from the yard so I park the truck there but my home time starts when I walk in the door at the house. Length is dictated by whether I'm empty or loaded. The company is generally pretty good at planning so I get 2 days in. Home weekly.

If I come home under load the delivery time dictates when I go out. If I'm empty they ask when I want to go back out and preplan me based on that.

 

Some companies start hometime right after you deliver your last load.Then some don't start till the following day depending when your last load was delivered.Like say you unloaded and heading home 5 pm then your hometime wouldn't start till the next day.Depending what the companies hometime policy is.

 

It varies by company.

Some companies start as soon as you deliver. Others, when you shut down. It may start at 0000 (midnight), as long as you shut down by a certain time for that day (like 0200 or 0600); otherwise it starts the next day at 0000.

Basically, it starts whenever your company says it does.

 

I pick up a load headed home on Friday. Depending on my hours and where I'm at, I get home Friday night or Saturday morning. My load usually delivers on Monday, so when I leave depends on where its going and what time I'm supposed to be there.

 

This would be the standard, they can call you back at the same hour on whatever day your hometime ends.
A day off is 24 hrs from the time you log off duty but as stated it's up to the company and dispatch.

 

#### company policy even though some do work this way but if it isn't a full 24 hour day that then any time before a full 24 hour clock is considered free time. I have always made that a point to my dispatchers and made sure they were aware. Then when I got my full 2-3 days or what ever it maybe, then they know that I will be up and ready when they walk in their office and start load assignments. I've had a couple try that BS of calling me halfway through my last day trying to cut me short asking if I was ready to roll or why I'm not ready to roll. HA! Nice try but you better try again. I am the captain of the ship and this is how it works. Other than that I've only had to request extra time a couple times because of some issues like trying to get to the bank which wasn't open yet and being closed on Sunday took a couple hours longer but home time or on the road, normally the early bird gets the worm. You screw around waiting till around 11-12 in the morning and your chances of getting a good or decent load if any load at all (depending on area) are slim to none. The later you wait in the day, the worse the loads are to pick from and poor time management will reflect on your settlement at the end of the week and can make at least a $100 difference. Of course it helps to have a kickarse DM thats not a snobby, lazy, jackarse.