Marten Transport

If it's on the qualcomm, go to the team lead with your complaint, also to safety. Go right on up to Operations Manager if you need to.

How far are you being asked to go? There is a certain assumption that, if there's parking on site, you get out of the customer's door when you're empty. Or, likewise, if you're parked on site, you get into a door even if you're outside of your hours.

However, if you're being asked to travel public streets and roads under 10 mph in order to go some distance into a shipper or receiver, that's stupid.

 

Why not just call your safety/compliance dept and ask instead of getting your panties all in a wad.

 

maybe its time for you to give up truckin' and go get a job at taco bell.

 

So you mean to tell me you don't dare move from the dock to a on site parking area?
If your on the cust property there shouldn't be a problem. I have done often and still have no violations. And if need be go to LINE 5 OFF DUTY DRIVING, and add comment, moving to on site parking.
Actully it's 7 mph. Anything above will switch you over to driving as per Ernie from the shop at Chester, when he installed my new qc.

 

Yeah smart idea....NOT!

ANY dispatcher that tells me to wake up and drive at 10MPH or below on ANY street or road while I'm logged off duty is nothing but a complete moron! and can pretty much drag his sorry arse to where ever I'm parked and drive it himself! Ain't happening!

Your silly arsed remark was about as useless as those female parts on a boar hog. Worth nothing!

Where do you people come up with brain dead ideas like this??

 

Well said!

 

I think before we get too far ahead of our-self's it should be noted he never said if the message meant for him to move the truck across a parking lot or down the road. Those are two completely different animals. Let us no forgot there is such a thing as personal drive time for our e-logging friends.

 

I think the OP suggesting getting 'legal advise and representation' has already taken this to the next level.

Have you spoken to your company about this yet??? If so what did they say???

 

Whatever you do, make sure you are covered legally in case of one of those "AW-SHOOTS" that happen. I've seen drivers pull out of a dock at a customer to move to on-site parking, only to hit a fixed object. Now they've had an accident while not actually showing driving. Scrambled to fix the log, but they knew to cover themselves and avoid problems. If it had happened pulling out of a customer dock onto a street, different story. There's going to be an accident report and the police will be involved. Not all police are trained and knowledgable about Hours of Service Regulations and what is allowed. And do you think they're going to listen to you? Not in a million years. Most will write that ticket and let you, your lawyers, and the judge sort it out. It's all a sticky situation. Would be nice if 1 agency (USDOT, US Supreme Court, etc) just handed down a clear-cut ruling and said, "Live with it." We would know where we stand then.