Waiting for dispatch..On or Off Duty?

You might want to recheck that. If you are B/T yes you are correct, otherwise you would need to log on duty or driving to get to that t/s.

 

With my e-logs as soon as the truck moves .7 miles I'm "driving" and as soon as I shut it off I'm on-duty. I can manipulate everything but the drive time.

 

I guess what you really need to decide for yourself is do you want a paycheck or not? If your are logging all your hours on duty while laying in the bunk watching tv. Then you wont get much of a paycheck, as youll be out of hours really quick that way...

Funny how they never explain this kinda stuff in truck school huh?

 

Its says you must be unladen and not under dispatch, not anything about pulling a empty trailer.

 

The 14 hour clock runs regardless if you take more than 2 hours. But going off duty will help on your 70. The more off duty time you can muster up, the more you can stretch your 70. It might also save some driving time but since I barely made it through math class I better keep quiet about that while I'm ahead. The 14 hr clock runs until you take 10 consecutive hours off duty. There is no 2 hour rule that I'm aware of. Splitting sleeper time is another topic and you can make 2 hours count but you must take at least 8 hours on the first leg of the split.

 

I am always off-duty unless I'm doing pre-trip, fueling, 30 minutes at the customer, or driving. I try to be conservative with my hours but when I'm too conservative they end up biting me in the butt when I have to do a recap instead of being able to get a restart. I usually drive 9-10 hours a day, but sometimes it is as low as 4. I really need to find that sweet spot where I have plenty to get back if needed.

 

You took the words out of my mouth.


Paid by the mile....Off Duty.

Paid by the hour....On Duty. lol

 

more briliant input from someone who claims not to be a swift hater. REDD, you telling me, that i dont get preplans for loads before i'm empty (which i have) or even get preplanned on loads before i've even made it to the final (which i have).

whats your beef anyway? you work for them, and end up getting fired? kinda sounds like the poster who is crying cause he got fired for going 72 in a company truck. Seriously, what is your deal? Bad upbringing? Home schooled? Picked on in grade school? take 6 years to graduate high school? couldn't make the cheerleading squad in jr high? or worse yet....you still eat paste? just trying to figure out why you are such a sad person all the time.

 

arrive at customer..go to line 1: off duty
send in m/t or loaded call:..line 4: on duty for 15 min. for pre-trip
then...line 3: driving (whether your m/t or loaded) when you leave your customer
If it takes 2,4,6,8 or more hrs. to be loaded or unloaded, why take those hrs. away from yourself (unless, like others have said...you get paid by the hr.
But regardless of the time you spend at a customer...it still eats into your 14 hr. clock, whatever line on your log you go to.

 

Do as you wish but don't come on here whining when you get caught by D.O.T. trying to "sneak" to that t/s with a empty trailer while still logged off duty.