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You are correct technically. Although most companies interpret your logging the extra work and meetings as not wanting to work. As in not wanting to drive.
If you didn’t log it, was later tired on the road and got into a major accident. Upon a full investigation and log audit, the company would through you under the bus and claim that you were supposed to log it.
That’s what we learned here in Canada after the Humboldt bus tragedy. The driver got 8 years in prison, the company got a $5,000 fine and continued operations.
As long as you are consistent in sticking up for yourself they will learn to quit pushing. They’re just use to getting something for nothing for years.

 

You are absolutely correct and you should be asking for an hourly wage for those 1-3 hr safety meetings.

Guy running the safety meetings is getting paid, so should you.

 

You cannot do work for the company and call that a 34 reset. When some driver asnwers "but this is how my company does it", it's not the regulations that are answering the question,

Imagine asking "is it illegal to murder strangers?" "Well, my neioghbor showed me how to boil the dead body in acid and pour it down the sewer and he never went to jail, so I think it is legal to murder people." Getting away with something isn't answering "what do the regulations allow?" It is answering can you get away with doing X?

 

395.2 Definitions
On-duty time means all time from the time a driver begins to work or is required to be in readiness to work until the time the driver is relieved from work and all responsibility for performing work. On-duty time shall include:
(1) All time at a plant, terminal, facility, or other property of a motor carrier or shipper, or on any public property, waiting to be dispatched, unless the driver has been relieved from duty by the motor carrier;
(8) Performing any other work in the capacity, employ, or service of, a motor carrier;

It is not Yard Move, it is not Personal Conveyance - it is On-Duty - Not Driving - line 4.