Made to use PC to leave shippers/receivers to benefit the company

Tell them to put the directive in writing on the Qualcomm....

 

Thanks I always wondered about that. I was told by another driver if out of hour’s stay driving take the violation and post reason for violation was find safe place.Again thanks for info

 

Doesn't mean you can drive until out of hours and then PC.
Or drive and park on the ramp and then PC an hour to a truck stop when you're kicked off it.

 

I believe that technically after pc he’s obligated to take a ten. Too lazy right now to back up my claim

 

If you spent 3 hours at a customer, presumably in SB and not on duty, you could just drive to the truck stop on the drive line, sleep for 7, and all would be completely legal with no grey area.

As far as PC'ing out, I'm not sure. I would think it would be strongly frowned upon if you had hours.

With splits, most all schedules can work out pretty well. If a company would rather you start bending the law to save that extra hour or two that a split doesn't allow for, probably better off moving on to somewhere else.

 

From the links others provided:

And:

There’s the law, and there’s company policy; I’m not really sure how log violations impact cdl, I thought it was more of a cvsa points thing and being forced to sit until legal. Whereas refusing to follow or violating company policy could get you fired.

My company interprets the former quote as allowing a driver to not interrupt their break if started at a shipper/receiver regardless of if they have hours available; the latter quote is just a more specific scenario, if you ran out of hours driving down the road, you can’t switch but we already know the exception is ok.

Looks legal to me, are you saying that you did this but another driver got fired for it? If the closest place was an hour away, no choice; I’ve queried my company before on similar uses while exploring options. I’ve also made a wrong turn pc’ing away in LA, turned a quick 1mi drive into an hour of rush hour traffic.

 

The other driver was threatened with firing if he did that again.