Made a mistake tonight that will have me late tomorrow

When I plan on parking at t truck stop that late, I look for a place to park first. Then fuel up in the morning doing pretrip at the same time. If the lot is jacked up. Go fuel and move on to plan B.

 

I don't see how swift can stop you from doing a split log
It's your legal right
And besides, it benefits them
A couple weeks ago I dropped in Sheboygan WI at 8am
Then got my new load info
General Mills in Milwaukee at 3pm-an hour away
I went to gm early but didn't get loaded til 430
The load had to be in KY 9am next day.
My 14 would be up at 9pm
No way to do it
But, I sat at gm til 5 so I had a full 8 sleeper.
That gave me back plenty of hrs to get to KY
I got to the consignee at 3am and could del my load during my break
I started the previous day at 7am and ran to 3am
20 straight hrs, perfectly legal
Perfectly legal
Unsafe as hell
Split logs

 

You should be able to send a macro to log department, theyll change it for ya.

 

Company policy doesn't have to follow the law. Sure, it has to be at least as stringent as the law but there's nothing stopping them from adding to it. A company could say you can only drive 8 hours a day and you could ##### and moan all day about your legal right and they'd still fire you for violating company policy.

Now, I'm not saying quitting swift swiftly is a bad idea...

 

Swift will not edit a log for that. To get Swift to edit a ELOG is just about an act of congress. Sorry, you are talking to desk jockeys that think ELOG is infallible.

Everybody's ELOG resolution will be tightened in the future. The compliance of the letter of the law was only loosened so companies could adapt to the the ELOG without totally shutting down. As it is every company that went to ELOGs lost driver miles.

Since when? That is a serious question. I split logged all the time at Swift, when they start prohibiting that?

The split log most likely wouldn't help this guy anyway as he was close on his 11hr limit. As mentioned his real mistake was a common rookie one, assuming he would get parking at a truck stop at 9pm while running close on his 11. Really he was hoping to save as much of his clock for tomorrow so he could get hopefully planed after the unload. Fat chance of that happening now days on ELOG. ELOG along with shorter average runs, and poor planning in the office is making OTR less and less profitable for the driver. As ELOG standards tighten up that will only get worse.

As the experienced will know, he needed to plan parking far away from the consignee with plenty left on his clock to make adjustments. That is the only way with ELOG you can remain in compliance and still deliver on time. Tuff #### if that it burns up another day of work for the driver with not enough time to plan a reload after the customer burns through 8 hours of detention without pay.

 

Your Safety dept can change mistakes like that. But you normally have to catch them in daytime mon thru fri.

 

You beat me to it. OP, by the time you fought with the busted keypad, fueled, filled up your DEF and cleaned your glass, 25 other trucks pulled in taking the last few remaining spots. If you see an abnormal amount of trucks exiting the TS that late at night it ain't cuz someone farted. You should already have plans B,C, and D in your mind. If your in the North East, run that list up to K.

 

Now just one cotton pickin' minute! Didn't you train at Swift and serve as a trainer?

 

I need to drop in Chicago in the morning.
I think I'll just drive into Chicago tonight about 11 and look for a truckstop
My clock is up at 11:10
Shouldn't be a problem

 

shouldve drive below 5mph, qualcom doesnt sense u drivin at that speed.. it wouldn't hve reset your clock