K&B Transportation: I Should Have Known Better

Show me that in writing, that they have a legal obligation to route you home to unload your stuff, if you would be so kind.....

 

Actually not all companies interrupt our breaks. The dispatchers at mine all go home for the night and then there’s just an after hours guy and he only calls if something REALLY Serious or if it’s an emergency. Logging on duty just for phone calls? That’s a new one.

Even still, if the OP is logging on duty for EVERY little thing and never has the hours to run, I’d have to wonder how new he is to the industry. Legally you can log around 5-15 minutes on duty and the sleeper birth while at a shipper or receiver. BUT if you are on the dock assisting and expecting load/unload pay the you’d have to log on duty. Especially if DOT walks into the office, demands logs and pay records and starts tearing a new one into them about drivers logging sleeper birth while assisting or lumping.

 

Never once said that, also success is subjective to the person. Whatever in life makes you happy then your successful.

 

Don’t feel bad. They don’t have to put up with nonsense. They choose to.

 

on 911 all aircraft were directed to land at the nearest airport and were grounded for days

 

What they do is if you give them a 2 week notice they'll pay for your way home.How driver chooses to clean his truck out is up to him.But KB wont go out of there way to route a driver home to clean out his truck.

 

Not one company that I've worked for has ever sent messages or called during my 10 hour break when I was OTR. Now the place I'm currently at (local, home daily) will call if our dedicated customer gives them a heads up that a load will be late, so that we don't come in and sit around for nothing.

Out on the road or otherwise, I agree with you. No company should ever, except for dire emergencies, ever call a driver on his or her break.

As for logging on duty for phone calls, I did suggest that to the OP as a way to, perhaps, get the office personnel to stop calling during the break, as in K&B's case because it seems that they do it excessively.

 

BIF you certainly state the obvious. I was there and grounded with everyone else. I was referring to the days afterward when we were trying to get the system restarted.

 

Read the rules.

 

Thank You, Ms.Patty!
If K&B or any other company chooses to route a driver through the house to clean out their truck, prior to turning it in, that would be a company decision. I don't believe, as someone said earlier, that they have a legal obligation to do so.
,Still waiting on that confirmation....