Is on call on duty?

Are you driving a Class 8 truck or a delivery van (or maybe something in between)?

 

https://www.fmcsa.dot.gov/regulations/title49/part/395

This is what youre looking for. Here is the law straight from fmcsa's website

 

Then the other issue...So what if they run like that, let em...Its on you to bow out...plenty of jobs out there might suit you..LTL? Thats what Id say

Let em run illegal, its merica dood!!!

 

Being on call is not on duty. However if they have you come in after your 14 hours are up (and that's consecutive hours, not cumulative) then you may not drive, and you must take at least ten hours off duty before driving again.

 

I used to do the same thing, home medical, being on call, had my class c with hazmat, it must be legal because every single home medical company has an on call rotation. Either that or not a single driver has ever complained or tried to fight and won

 

TOO much wrong information.

To the Original Poster, this is how it works for jobs like yours.

You can drive up to 11 hours like people who log.

You can work up to 14 hours including your drive time just like if you were logging.

BUT you can't work beyond that 14 hours and have to have 10 hours off to reset to drive another 11 or work another 14.

The reason that you don't log is because imagine the logs if you have 30 stops in all different locations so the US DOT (ICC) at the time decided local work isn't the same as regional or over the road.

Your company can complain and bi*tch about it but every state is the same and the FMCSA regs have something about it in them.

You being on call means nothing, you reacting to that call means that it has to be within the 11 hours after your 10 hours off.

AND for those who don't think that’s right, talk to a lawyer who specialises in transportation labor. I did just that because I had issues with a customer and my employer was backing me.

 

How much time do you have to get your butt down to the yard when they call?

 

so you worked..then you are off.....how many hours from your 14 do you have left after they tell you that you can go home and go to bed?

 

You're reading to much in to what your company is saying.Once I am done with work I'm done and will not return untill my full ten hr brk is over.Once I'm in bed that phone is getting turned off and I'll answer it when I wake up.You may be on call but you should set limits to just how far you'll go with being on call.