Running out of hours

Stand by...hopefully OP will post a pic.

 

Someone needs to teach you how to conserve on hours while still having logs that will pass DOT inspection. You need a chill veteran driver to explain the many ways.

 

Waiting inside the building wouldn't be on duty unless you were physically loading the trailer or counting product. Even then, I still wouldn't log it as on duty..

Someone on here put it best when they said that 70hrs is all we have of value as drivers. I protect that 70hrs as best I can and don't give any of it away if I can avoid it.

 

If you are in your sleeper while they are loading/unloading you are falsifying your logs to log on duty. All times in a sleeper is logged sleeper...
If you are in a break room, or waiting area, or such and not doing any work you can log off duty. You are not doing anything so save your 70.

 

Go play Xbox in your sleeper. Log sleeper berth when you aren’t doing anything. You don’t have to be sleeping.

 

Did I read that correctly,?
Got up with 7hrs left on the clock and 200miles to got but couldn't make it.

 

You will find as you go on that it’s often easier to ask forgiveness than permission. Yes, by the book, you might have to log it. But if you’re doing a lot of live loading and unloading, you’ll go broke.

 

7 hours, 200 miles? That doesn't make sense.

Here's the thing that would make question your future with me were I the employer, why would you wait until it was too late to let them know you wouldn't be delivering the load? You need to watch your hours and you should always be planning ahead. If you won't have enough time to complete a load you need to inform the company as soon as you can.

Whether you should log line 4 while waiting in the building is open to debate, I know I wouldn't. But again, you need to watch your clock and avoid putting yourself and the company in a situation like this.

I know it's been mentioned to you before but this isn't a hand holding type of job.

We have no way of answering your question about how the company will deal with it.