Question about HOS rules

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.