My experience running 100% legal, if anyone cares.

If your not doing the unloading yourself, you can be on line 1. You only have to show line 4 for 15 mins for backing the truck and opening the doors, the rest of your 9.75 hrs can be on line 2 for a 8 hour splitbreak, this will stop your 14 hour clock from burning up. After you use that time after the 8 hour break, take 2 hrs on line 2 and get back the time you used before you had to sit for loading/unloading

 

Interesting thread.

 

This is gonna be an eye-opener.

What happened at 'Scarlet Swift' to bring this new policy on? Did they finally get a serious spanking by the DOT?

 

This works...One reason is the Elogs wont allow you to break the laws in anyway..

 

please excuse my ignorance on this matter as I havent been to orientation yet and the only log book i filled out was in class for an excercise, however I know when i get out in the field i am going to have to figure out how to maximize my logged miles so I have a few questions on what you wrote and how i would apply that if i was with werner using their paperless system...

if you're on a paperless log system like Werner's, wouldn't you get automatically bumped from line 1 to "on duty" every time you had to move the truck around the yard like he said he had to do? also you mention being on line 1 for unloading but then say to put that time on line 2, which is the better choice and why?

what do you mean by 8 hr splitbreak on line 2 and then adding another 2 hours on line 2? where is the gap/split and why not just put 10 hrs?

thanks

 

trucker dave is correct, technically if the law wants to be an ### they can cite you for being in a dock on line 2 because you are considered onduty in the dock. ANd I have heard of people getting tickets for being on line 1 in the dock even when they really were not in the truck.

AS FOR THE PAPERSLESS LOGS.

Yes. They can be cheated.

 

What'r you gonna do Dave?