Owner operators and Personal Conveyance

I'm not losing a reset because I moved my truck 50 feet from the TA service bay back to my dropped trailer on the TA lot. They have provisions for yard moves and searching for parking. This is no different. I'm also not losing any clock time because I'm doing paperwork, handling phone calls or cleaning my truck on my reset. I log it all line 1. It is what it is. Taking the HOS to the extreme literal interpretations I'd never get any driving done.

 

Trucking Industry Regulations

Scalemaster posted about PC yesterday.

 

I agree. 50 feet no big deal. On the property no issue. Have to take the truck from your home several miles down the road to the shop then drive it home? That's where they will get you.

 

Totally.

 

I read that before I posted. It was somewhat helpful but not so much for an O/O.

The whole reason I’m an owner operator is to get around a lot of the stupid company rules that prevent you from having a life and making rational decisions.

 

More....seems there should be a provision here for owner operators. If you drive for a company you park at the yard when you’re off and all maintenance is performed while you are off. O/O’s don’t have this priveledge.

 

Problem is, the corporations make the laws so they ensure we cannot have anything that benefits our independent operations. Just look at what the ATS alone has done to us over the last 5 years or so. Evil. Pure evil.

 

This thread has a lot of good info.

Personal Conveyance

I am reviewing a possible purchase of a carrier, there is so much abuse of pc, I think maybe it needs to be defined and regulated.

 

Huh O/O working more for less what a shock. And concealing their work....well until they have to produce those maintenance records and the correlated logs showing the on duty time.

You do your own oil changes. Good produce the receipt and the log showing the time it took you to do it. No?
$1000 fine per offense. Though personally I would just revoke your authority. You people sure are lucky that auditors are not interested in actually enforcing the law. All fun and games until someone picks your records apart. It is why so many of you get your ### handed to you in an accident.

 

@Ridgeline. You’ve always had pretty good advice and i know you have lots of experience. What’s your take on this post I just made? If company drivers have mechanics to fix their stuff when they are off do you not agree O/O’s should have some leeway of how they maintain their trucks when they are off?