Repower Woes

It happens a million times a day. If we all logged by the letter of the law, we would be on duty while being at the dock getting loaded or unloaded, and end up with 25 hours on the Drive line in a 70 hour period. As a previous poster said, quit splitting hairs. There are acceptable practices in this industry. "Legal" or "Not".

 

You really need to read part 395. There is nothing in it that states you have to be On Duty when at a dock, unless you are loading / unloading....

 

In the profoundly unlikely event that anyone ever came after me about not logging on duty to drop a trailer, I would either say that I unhooked before logging off, or that the other driver unhooked for me. If I was paranoid enough that I didn’t want to do that, I’d actually have the other driver do it.

But really, ELDs don’t automatically kick on until 5 mph for a reason, and that reason is to give drivers a tiny amount of discretion. And that tiny amount of discretion includes pulling the truck forward about fifteen feet.

 

Think about things that used to happen "a million times a day" that no longer do.

Look at the court decisions that have come down in the last 3 years.

 

Outlaw trucking 101, never tell them you’re doing a reset. Turn the phone off, go on ghost mode. If you can find another outlaw at a truck stop and he’s also doing a 34, pay him $20 and say “can you hook to my trailer and I’ll hook to yours until 34hr is done”.

Black tape is $4. Put black tape in your license plates and dot/carrier name. When your 34 is done, start moving, go deliver. If they call you asking wtf happened, tell them you were visiting a family member.

Ah I remember the good old days of going to a Walmart dc, I would put 3 red stickers in a good trailer and write “out of service”, 2 weeks later, the same trailer is still there.