Off duty, driving Tractor ONLY home, DOT Reg??????

Same thing at Swift, you can bobtail off duty driving to get eats or go home and such, limited to 3 hours a day by the company and strictly bobtail. An interesting thing about Swift's system though is that if you don't have a trailer hooked on they will not send a dispatch to your truck. So for instance if I were at home but knew I had a preloaded trailer at the yard or at a customer or something, I would not be actually dispatched til I hooked to that trailer, so coming from home could still technically get away with Line 5 personal conveyance up to the point of hooking up and sending loaded call in.

This works well out on the road sometimes, say delivering a drop close to the end of hours, bobtail out of customer after drop off duty driving, return after the 10 hour break for next load off duty driving until dispatched.

OH and they ran out of virgins in terrorist heaven a few years ago and started passing out little piggies to the terrorist jihadists.

 

If you weren't dispatched...how did you know the load was there for you to pick it up? If someone calls you, and says come pick up this load, you're dispatched...Technically. Realistically, I don't blame you

 

Ok I have been going back and forth with our safety director on this, She called the ND field office and talked to the person in charge. I forget his name but unladen is Bobtail only according to FMCSA.

I was just trying to search on the FMCSA sight for their true definition of unladen and was unable to find anything. So if anyone here can shoot me a link that shows unladen can be with an empty trailer then please do so. I am looking for more ammo here to help myself and our other drivers in our fleet.

 

http://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/unladen

 

This is the proposal for change from the committee....top of page 4

http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=...sg=AFQjCNHNEigPRIfGTI80z0Nclz7F8dzgKQ&cad=rja

 

If they decide that a mt trailer can not be pulled using pc thenI guess you could argue that a class b truck could never be used as pc as it is not able to detach the load carring platform.......

 

this one has always perplexed me

if you are put out of service at one of these "closed at night" weigh stations, how are you to eat, bathroom, etc? what if you get sick?

 

Keep food in your truck for emergencies, and don't get put OOS. As far as getting sick...if it's bad enough you need to go to the hospital, then call 911. If you just need to puke, puke on the scales

 

Terminal Is A
Pickup Is B
Deliver Is C
Home Is D
Ok 90% of the time I do this run but I'm never sure I'm doing it until I get to the Terminal (A)

Pick my paperwork at A and head to B then off to C
After I deliver at C can I log that (Off Duty) as im driving home? Im no longer under dispatch im going home.

Or do i need to log it back to A? If I have to log it back to A then I am falsifying my log because i don't go there.

If i have to log it as going back to A then im better off sleeping at A (I prefer to be home (D) to get a shower and some food)

A B C to A is 627 miles and 13 hours 10.5 driving. I don't know the miles or times for A B C to D.
Guess my real question is can I log any of this as Off Duty (PC)

 

Since you are not under dispatch from "D" to "A" in the morning...you don't know your assignment for the day...that could be Personal Conveyance, Off Duty. The same with "C" to "D" as you are not under dispatch, and you don't know tomorrows assignment. Yes, both home to terminal, and final drop to home would be considered Off Duty.