Quit jb hunt

I agree. Sounds like a sideways move to me.

 

With your experience and perfect CSA like you mentioned, why not finance a tractor and go O/O? You could make a better life for yourself and dictate your home time and your HOS and such are on you. Schneider Choice, Landstar BCO, or any of the countless others are available to you. What's holding you back?

 

You aren't going to "lose" the whole per diem on your taxes!
When you hand your accountant your W-2 you will also hand them either the total number of days you stayed away from your domicile OR all of your logs. There is a line showing them how much ole BFI paid you in cash per diem but the accountant will still figure your total days out and then subtract what BFI paid you and you will get the balance owed to you. It's just that BFI stole from you part of your Social Security when you retire, they will screw you if you get injured on the job and use that workman's comp which they shorted by not paying all your taxes with that scheme per diem not to mention that if they charged you anything for the "priveledge" of figuring out that ripoff I do not know if that money is tax deductable. Does anyone know if it is? I would ask the BFI for an account of what they charged you to figure out what a high schooler could figure with an excel sheet program! It took me just a few minutes to make an excel sheet to figure out how to ripoff myself on a per diem!

All of you that are getting strong armed by these companies in violation of RICO laws must, that's MUST, give you copies of your logs. They can NOT deny you these as they are what you need to recover the rest of your per diem from the IRS!

If they refuse then tell them you'll see them in court!

BUT! All of you should go ahead and tell these BFIs with their rip off per diem crapola that you will need copies at the end of the year or end of the month. Give them notice that you are going to make them do extra work to rip you off! To tell you the truth if they charge you more than a whole $5. a year to "figure" that ripoff out them they are really bending you over as all it takes is a few lines of code that only needs the miles put in an already in use program they have been using to pay employees for years!

The IRS will allow digital copies as on a CD, As long as they can open them during an audit.

My suggestion is to keep your own paper log or buy one of several logging programs that you will use to duplicate the EOBR. I have one friend that is new to using one and has a hard time figuring out how many hours she gets back from last week and how to figure out her routing times because she doesn't keep a paper log in the truck due to the DOT deal of "2 logs" being a no no!

The thing about paying for a logging program even though you have that Qcomm or people net is that you can do your schedule of your route or pre plan what you want and need to do which is better than what I understand you can do with the on board toy.You will also have the log that should be a carbon copy of what you turn in on the trucks system. You have it and you save it to whatever file name you want and you won't have to mess with the company for what you should have already.

Besides the EOBR might not become law or mandatory in the trucks, thank you supreme court! some of you just might be going back to paper so you'll already have the program and know how to use it.

I have used DDL since it was fee just to play with until the new HOS came out and I never had a write up from the company, and when you walk into a scale and say I use DDL they pretty much just flip pages to be sure ink is on them and hand the book back but the thing I liked the best was being able to plan my route out to the minute and knew days ahead when I might need to take a few extra hours off, or 24 or 34. DDL was the best $79 I ever spent! Well there was this cross eyed breather...oh forget that! But it really made planing my time much simpler and I didn't waste paper logs scribbling to figure out what I had to work with.

Make BFI works to keep that charge and make sure that it's done with the good setting on the printer so they use more ink!

 

Ok, I really can't take issues with anything else you posted, except for allowing them to push you over on your 11/14.. ..although it was petty of them to pressure you then write you up for doing it due to their poor scheduling. But I do take issue with your not logging any on duty time for you arrival calls, loading, unloading, and fueling. That is just blatant falsification and will get you a ticket from the DOT. It is impossible to perform any of these duties in less than 7.5 minutes. Most of the time I spend anywhere from 15-30 minutes on duty not driving for these duties. You are begging for a ticket, and ruining your perfect CSA scores, by cutting corners like this trying to save driving time on your 14. Don't know how you haven't gotten nailed for it by the DOT yet.


Rollover, I agree DDL is the greatest thing since beer in a can. I have been using it since September and am amazed how neat, and clean it is.. ..and even more by how much time it saves me. Recaps are a no brainer automatically figured. There is no way it will allow you to log a violation. I even figured out how to do legal split sleeper, which is one rule that has had me dumbfounded for years, even though I never use split sleeper it's nice to know exactly how to do it without risking a ticket. Like I said though the most incredible part is how much time a driver wastes dealing with paper logs on a daily basis.


You should see that thread in the o/o section titled "where do you buy your paper logs" I tried to inform on that thread about DDL but it flew under some radars. If I had known about DDL years ago I would have done it. I can't believe any o/o still spends money on paper logs. What a waste of time and money.

 

Yeah I understand. These huge companies are so ridiculous with their petty policies. Just shows a total lack of respect treating drivers like kindergartener's.

 

Well ya know...when they're messing around on TTR instead of moving that freight, you kinda gotta hold their hand a little bit...