Is it true (less hrs on the road)

got it on the 16, it was questioned becuased he logged off then on at the same location. then his weight tickets were looked at and they were time stamped 3 hours apart

 

What always cracks me up about these idiots in "power" is that I can get in my car or truck and drive 12-15 or even 22hrs straight (which Iv done before) with out pulling into a hotel and its perfectly legal. I can stop in a parking lot and take a 15min nap somewere and continue driving. Most people dont even sleep 8 hrs a nite at home let alone in a in a vehicle.

end rant....

 

The ATA, Public Citizen, Parents Against Tired Truckers, and many, many more.

Some of these groups want our driving cut to 8 hours a day, which is fine, but that goes for EVERYONE, so these people who drive 2 hours to work and 2 hours home, well, let them survive on 4 hours a day of work. (8 Hour day). I'm tired of having to dodge tired 4 wheelers.

 

If I'm sitting at a shipper or receiver for 1 hour or 10 hours its logged as sleeper time, I don't unload, I'm kicked back in my sleeper so that's the way its logged. Hauling a tanker maybe different but if your waiting in a line and in the sleeper or standing around B.S. ing and have no responsibility to work, why log on duty?

 

Your wife needs a job.

Mine never sees my checks.

I which she would help and call some of the slow paying accounts

 

don't tell me. i'm just saying to watch your butt. cuz dot might be cracking down on those off duty claims.

they sit there in line for around 2 - 3 hours waiting to unload. so it don't really matter what you haul. we're all sitting.

 

Big difference, waiting in line, having to move the truck, and backed into a dock door, taking a nap in the sleeper.
Oil is hauled by day cabs, around here, they need the additional weight in the tank.

And the FMCSA green book even lists waiting in line to load or unload, being in readiness to move the truck, must be logged on duty. Totally different from backed into a dock door and taking a nap in the sleeper.