Running out of hours

He's busy editing.........

 

Not true with the peoplenet my company uses. We approve our own logs but cannot edit.

 

Learning to conserve HOS will come naturally after you blow a few runs due to impractical logging. As they say, always log it as you do it!

 

Kinda like those guys on paper logs and running 850 miles a day?

 

Yep. Cut out all that wasted time! Kinda like what I read here.
It's human nature regardless the method of recording.

 

I surprised no do-gooders got on here to tell everyone how “the law is clear..” etc

 

Don't worry to much about it. Your job is safe .
Yes loads need to be delivered on time.
I've hauled many loads of rolls and more than half were ' hot loads' the funny thing is not once did I EVER arive and not been told, ok put it in door# and give us a few minutes to figure out where we can put it, lol.
Yep never fails with rolls. The warehouse is already full of the same product, lmao. The only thing ' hot ' about the load is the shipper wants that crap off their property ASAP lol.

Your company should understand that with you being a greenhorn that your going to have some mishaps with trip planning and the job in general.
As long as your progressing in a timely manner your job should be safe.

Just keep your license clean! No tickets no crashes! No crashes is all inclusive to tearing up equipment and property.
I'm sure your read the line on here a hundred times, some driver in here trying to minimize the problem. Well ya see I had this 'minor incident 'while back backing into ' a tight dock'.
Oh yeah accompanied By the ol IN MY ROOKIE YEAR.
Don't be that driver!

It's really the most important thing keeping that license clean.
With a clean license you can end up wherever you want.
It can take awhile to learn the in' s an outs of this job especially if you weren't trained well enough and thrown to the wolves, lol. So if your current employor gets impatient with your learning cure it won't matter to much cause, Why?
You've got a clean license GOT IT? LMAO
Again don't loose any sleep over this current problem it wasn't a huge deal.

 

Many people forget the part of the regulation that states, it's on duty, unless the driver is relieved from responsibility of the load by the carrier.

OP, the way you could have done it...on duty to check in. If they put you in a door right away, then on duty. Once backed in, before leaving the truck for the breakroom, switch to off duty. Then once you have your paperwork, you could go back on duty for securing and sealing the load, and sending in any loaded msg info to the company. I prefer to put all my on duty time 1st, and include a little extra on duty time in the beginning for the secure, seal and load call. After doing it so many times, I pretty much know how long it takes, so I include it in the beginning of my on duty load time so my log doesn't look like a seismic graph from the San Adreas fault. And it is perfectly legal to do it that way, multiple changes of duty status can be logged as one while in the same location, town or township. Of course, this is all a moot point if your company requires you to log it all on duty.

 

There is no point.

I should spontaneously combust if I tried to be that after ignoring my own logbook sins.

After all it only took 15 minutes to load in three days at Americold....

All this training, lecturing and emphasis on the precious HOS as if it was the Commandments etched in stone is undermined by the termites constantly chewing on the 70 hour rule. How dare the US Government restrict our ability to make a dollar....

 

If you locked your keys in the truck, then you are off duty.

As for the phone, I would have told them "I'm going to get my phone, I am not a prisoner here so I will be right back".

By the way you will piss off everyone at that company at least once. Don't worry about it and do the job you are supposed to do, not what they want you to do.