Personal conveyance

I strongly doubt your dm had anything to do with adjusting your PC use. Call your logs and compliance division or safety people, and explain that you were bobtail, not under load, going to get food, and you were going to PC back to the receiver to get your trailer after you finished taking care of personal needs. Under new PC regulations this should be acceptable. If not, ask them to email you the full and complete guidelines the company has for PC use.

 

PC is u cant use it to make an progress of the trip like you hook to a trailer and you want to go to a restaurant and the restaurant is on the way to the customer if you are leaving a load somewhere you can bobtail any where and return to that load even home to get rest

 

The PC I understood is two things.

1- You have been told by dispatch have a good weekend with your bobtail at home until sunday night to get a loaded pretezel trailer in Hanover. (Going to that trailer is driving and onduty logged from home bobtail) but all other activity is strictly off duty. Including fueling with my own cash money if need be. Some companies allowed us to treat the bobtail as a personal vehicle on weekends off. Which was a priveldge.

2- You are finished at a shipper or receiver. You go to where you can legally park to get food, laundry, fuel and more importantly undisturbed rest. there is NOTHING for PC to advance a load or towards a load waiting for you (Driving on duty}

I would refuse edits if I was driving today. The company gets their logs as they stand. They can either accept them or find a violation and then pull me in to deal with it. Nothing else. It will only take one edit for me to simply fly home and leave them to go find the truck for I would rather be out of the industry than to have people edit logs.

Remember, logs are on paper legal sworn documents once you complete a log page by signing at end of day.

 

Maybe their issue was that you chose to burn their fuel and use the truck to go to the Pilot when there is food and services available in Gibbon except a shower. Did you have permission or did you just do it?

 

PC is an exception mandated for allowing a driver who is out of driveable hours to get to a safe parking area for meals and rest periods. If you run out of hours at a customer you may use it if your company allows to go to a nearby truck stop or rest area for your rest break. It's purpose is to prevent drivers from getting logbook violations if they are forced to leave a customer when they are out of hours, or to allow a driver who runs out of hours while waiting at a customer to be able to get to a place with bathroom facilities, food, or a hotel.
It's NOT for use with poor trip planning.

 

Team Effort?

Part of a Family?

Recruiting Posters?

Son, you are totally in the WRONG industry for that. This industry is like a den of snakes. They will bite, rattle and choke one another to be first out the den at sunrise to enjoy it.

There are many common war storied told for decades at the lunch counter where Driver Sam has saved the world a thousand times over with his running. Only to be fired for violating some obscure company policy that has been totally burnt along the way.

 

Didn’t have these silly problems 10 years ago.