Question about HOS rules

The thing is its hard to sleep just whenever when you are in a rhythm of waking up every day at 6 and being in bed by 8 or 9. I'm pretty new to this flat bedding thing anyway, but I havent had to deal with anything like this in 7 months of driving otr. Im sure it happens frequently. Also, we are on e-logs so that limits what we can and cannot do. I knew I was going to be out of my 14 at 10pm. I assumed that i would've got 200 or 300 miles in by then. That was my intentions anyway. The company I work for is real safety conscious so I doubt they will have a problem with anything I decide. Like I said I dont have a delivery appt yet so I should be good.

 

That's one of the advantages of paper logs...easy enough to correct mistakes you may have made. Were you hanging out in the sleeper while waiting? If so, you should have been logging sleeper time. If you were hanging out BS'ing with other drivers in the parking lot, then you would have been "on duty" since you were waiting to be loaded.

In other words, if you are at a customer site and waiting to be loaded, you are either "on duty" or in the "sleeper berth". You cannot be "off duty" unless you have been relieved from duty by the motor carrier.

 

also if your gonna do the split break. the 8 hr. has to be logged as sleeper

 

I think a lot of times when they don't havee a delivery time listed it means that they have no clue when the truck is going to be fininshed loading and on its' way.

 

You've been there 14 hrs already. No matter what, you are tired, make sure you take that break until morning.

 

Hours of Service rules.....Once again, and I mean this, are there to protect the DRIVER. The "Company" is not a living breathing thing. It is a piece of paper. You are on scene. Do you feel you can safely take the load? If so, log it so you have time. If not, log is so you don't have time.

I always log as much off duty time or sleeper time as possible. That gives me flexibility. You are on site and out of hours, unless you log the time onsite as in sleeper. I would get off property as soon as they get you loaded and sleep. Do not go to sleep in the dock. That will not make you popular. Call your dispatcher and keep them informed of when you will become available and for how long. But it is YOUR call. Just because you have hours doesn't mean you should drive tired.

 

I hope you're getting detention time because you certainly should be . I would have logged as much sleeper time just to conserve hours on my 70 . You say you have been "off duty" . Is that what you show on the e-logs ? You shouldn't have logged that if you kept asking about the load . That's on duty .

 

You should have stayed on duty if you kept checking . Most of us wouldn't have checked every hour or so . You should have given them your cell phone number and told them to call when the load was ready .

 

That's what I usually do: give them my cp#, inform dispatch and go to sleep for a number of hours.

 

Still sitting here waiting on my load to get done. Im getting detention pay from 5pm yesterday till I guess whenever it gets loaded...lol. Thats pretty good I guess. So now I'm good, i have a fresh 14 and am waiting on them to call me now that they have my number.