Landstar Questions

You won't be parking on the street to finish your rest break @ Landstar

 

well when trucks are rolling around the truckstops, shippers and recievers at 3mph we will kno why, or rushing to beat the clock like many do now.

 

Yes I have heard that, no thanks

 

So if it automatically puts you on the driveline, is the five minute minimum duty status rule going to change as well? If I drive one 20th of a mile from the fuel lane to the parking spot, does it give me one minute of drive time?

 

5 minute minimum duty status rule sounds like that came from your carrier. Never heard of it.

 

Ours is 4 minutes, the 5th minute locks in the Drive status. But it depends..... I have gone On Duty and rolled over to the fuel island for pretrip and wash the windshields. Roll out on the road and it showed 17 solid minutes of Drive time. What happened to the On Duty time?

 

The way it has worked for me both at Swift and Prime is that you have to take a five-minute break in between movements. If you don't, as soon as your drive time locks in, it backs up to the time you made your first movement after changing status.

Example: arrive at shipper at 1200. Go on duty, spend three minutes checking in, move to empty row, spend four minutes dropping. Drive around yard looking for loaded trailer, spend four minutes hooking and do a quick walk around. Move to gate, spend three minutes checking out. Total time spent on yard is 14 minutes on duty showing a drop and hook and trailer inspection. But because you never sat still for five minutes, when you get back out on the road, it erases all your on duty time and shows you on the drive line the whole time.

I have learned the hard way by losing 30+ minutes when my 70 was low… Wait five minutes after hooking to trailer before leaving yard.

 

Pretty sure the way it works anywhere you go with on the tracks/QUALCOMM is that if you do not stay in a duty status for at least five minutes, when you change your status, it reverts back to the prior status.

Example: pull in a rest stop, go off duty, hang the hog. Four minutes later, you're rolling again. The QUALCOMM unit erases that on duty status and shows you on the driveline the entire time.

My question, if the rules are changing as proposed above, is whether the duty status will now show increments of less than five minutes. I haven't done any research, but I'm curious whether that change is hearsay or fact.

 

A lot of this will be learned by us from experience on Monday or later. I have an EOBR not an ELD yet. So there is some grace period. LS has never had a 5 minute minimum for any of the 4 lines. What u log is what u get. And i will miss the 2 mile buffer before being kicked on to the drive line. RIP.

 

Display Interface Unit 50 (DIU50) Cable Connector Pin Callouts

Pin Signal

8/15 DIU_PWR

7/14 DIU_GND

10 DIU_TX

4 DIU_RX

11 DIU_RTS

6 DIU_CTS

3 DIU_DSR

5 DIU_DCD

13 DIU_RI

19 USB_DP USB_DM

2 N/C