HOS Do I Gain Time Back Even If I'm Currently Driving/On-Duty

I always thought it was the company headquarters too, otherwise a company would have drivers logging anywhere from Eastern to Pacific time.

 

No. The rules are pretty clear. And orientation usually points this out to and informs those as to which terminal they "belong to". With eLogs this is typically preset and should not need to be messed with.

 

Now I suppose at a place like Swift, they are at liberty to make everybody run MST if they wanted, even their northeast fleets. Just so long as it's all consistent.

 

When I was at Crete we all logged Central Time because Lincoln NE is in the Central time zone.
My terminal was Indianapolis which is Eastern time zone. didn’t matter.
I liked that because my county is one of the 9 in Indiana that observes Central Time.

 

With most of the megas using a 3rd party company to aggregate things like fuel and toll receipts YOU MUST be on the same time as these entries are. If not your going to have a hell of a lot of faults. I don't care if your on local terminal or grannys kitchen time, they MUST match. You should be told what time to log during orientation. I am confused as to why this is even a thing.

 

If you have 3hrs left on your 11 and gain hours at midnight, you still only have those 3hrs to drive.

You DO gain the hours at midnight, but you can't use them until you take a legal break.

If you didn't have enough hours when you started to run a full 11.. whatever you gain at midnight will add to the previous days total to let you complete an 11hr driving shift.

That's what I got out of your question.
I may be way off base on what you really wanted... but it's still true.

 

I was at another company which had its headquarters in Wisconsin. I logged Central Time on my logs even though my home terminal was Livermore CA

 

Swift logs according to home terminal.

 

you aint kidding lol

 

Thats incorrect. Its called a rolling recap. The hours you gain back at midnight will keep you rolling so long as your within your 11,14,60or70 hour limits.