just rocked the boat

still didnt answer the question.

the way i described is perfectly legal....in both DOT eyes and the company. If you want to call the guy here in Edwardsville, and talk to Mark Smith, and ask him if i'm right nor not.....he teaches it that way in his log classes.

how if you want to be a bonehead, and sit behind the wheel, you should actually be on L3. Yeah, truck isnt in motion, but explain to a DOT officer what you're doing on L1,2 or 4 when sitting behind the wheel.

 

Interpeting DOT regs is like interpreting the Bible. Give 50 people the same verse and you will come up with no fewer than 9 different meanings. "Waiting" to load or unload is, IMO, when you have to wait in line or wait on the dock. When my trailer is docked, I am no longer waiting. They are unloading or loading me and I am free of any responsibility for it. Therefore, I am not on duty.

 

I have 'heard' (so you know how that goes for veracity) that as soon as you look at a message across the qualcomm, they know you looked at it by some voodoo confirmation because they know you clicked the Next Message button. If you hadn't read the message, you could claim ignorance of the new delivery date. Seems to me your DM is yanking your chain an awful lot-- T-call at a truck stop and turn and burn on another load, 1000 miles load with normal delivery extended out a week? Did you rock the boat recently?

 

and even if you WERE still responsible for it....and in the sleeper....you're still on L2....regardless.....



i need some pizza rolls. =)

 

I am currently under a 1680 mile load that does not deliver until the 3r. I refused to accept it until I could t-call it along the way. I'm dropping it in Denver.

Wait...was this the load that was supposed to pick up yesterday, when you caught a case of ****its? Seems that bug is going around. Your shipper, CSR and receiver must have all caught it too.

 

its not voodoo, they do know if you look at messages or not. just like you can tell if they've received your message or not, when you see that "A" pop up in the black band at the top of the message.

any hoo......

I got a preplan that was only a 300 miler....picking up at a flyin j....know what happened to that preplan? it just sat on my qualcomm...didnt accept or decline it. they know better. I'm not going to repower a load out of a truck stop for anybody (unless its a breakdown). if you got the time to t-call it, and have an able truck, you need to take it to a terminal.

what i would do....they give me 6 days to drive 1000 miles....i find a terminal about 100 mi away, and head there. that way you dont run all the miles off the load. Nobody is going to want to take that load after running 999 miles off it. Would you??