Is it on duty waiting for dispatch

When I was a medic for the city of Louisville.

....we were on call during the night....if there wasn't a run then we were there and made $0/hr but still had to be at the fire station.

Its called "sleep time". But if we went out we got double time.

Luckily for me the west end exists. Though it wasn't as bad as it is now back then. And we used shock pants back then...they don't even teach that anymore. Its stupid. Those things work!

 

I log 5 min for fuel, 5 min loading and unloading, 15 min pretrip.. Everything else is off duty except driving...

 

Man, if we logged "on duty" any time we were waiting for a phone call, we'd never leave line 4. Oilfield is always on call. And it doesn't take very many unanswered calls, or "I'm out of hours" responses to have a fella looking for a new job. The company I'm leased to even reimburses the company drivers for the use of their cell phones every month.

 

Heck, even oil field drivers are allowed to log off duty now for waiting to be unloaded at the pad, even in a daycab. I'd say, even without the guidance, that being at home waiting to be called in should be off duty as well but the guidance makes that explicit.

 

The regulations give you the option of Logging the time as off duty. But you don't have to. The logs belong to you. Log anyway you want to. I believe that a certain Walmart Driver could have saved the company a lot of money had he simply told the company that he was too tired to drive. Safety first.

 

Why do people log all sorts of crap as on duty? All the dot can look at when auditing past logs is pre/post trips, 15 min at shipper/recievers, and 5 minutes to fuel. How to they know you went on the dock at the grocery warehouse and broke down 35 pallets? How would they know anything other than fuel, inspections and shippers. It's not lik they have video cameras (yet) on duty time (for an otr driver constantly running against his 70) should be very minimal. Most parked time should be logged off or sleeper

 

If I'm not getting paid - I'm off. And believe it - my time is worthless to this mega outfit. Emergency situations, inspections and pre-trip being the exclusions to my rule.

 

We arrived in Memphis, docked, chocked. Off duty for an hour, when they said, "empty". On duty to move chocks, close doors. Off duty sat for an hour, it's 17:30 and no word from dispatch. Security guy says leave. No where to go, 4 truck stops all full. Spent the night in a weigh station, and at 05:30 headed for a Walmart. Off duty every time I stop. Scheduled home time in 18 hours and there is nothing from dispatch. I'm 5 hours from home too. Let me mention 1350 miles this week! ☹️

 

That's rough. Guess Dispatch is keeping you...in the dark on this one? Haha sorry