What to do when a dispatcher tries to force a load on you?

I tried to give you the benefit of the doubt but sorry I cant,go back and read post42 then post 43 and tell us how he could have legally picked up load?

 

Whooly is a rocket scientist so he can get it done

 

True,i keep forgetting

 

That's too much figuring out for the brain.Always log it as you do it and log it legal.Time management is the name of the game.

 

Yeah, then even if they will let you take a 10 on property, 3 of it will be spent getting loaded
And a lot can happen in 25 miles.
This was just piss poor planning and the dispatcher was trying to put it on a driver who already had run his tail off to empty.
I would've nastied all over that dispatcher and gone full Jack Nicholson.

 

The result is I sit at the shipper down the road, whatever the traffic may be. Alarm is set matched to the time I will have the hours to start a new working day in the morning. Because the miles have been advanced, I must be careful to drive to wherever my paper logs say Im at at that point in the future in to literally capture the line and be legal from that point. As far as between now and then? Shipper time. Sleep time etc. whoo hoo.

I had a 70 hour inspection near Sayre NY once, what the PA officer did not know was I departed about 45 minutes prior to my pre-built morning logs within 30 minutes to one hour with a 15 minute spread to literally have just enough time to deliver into Sayre across the border. He passed the inspection. If I had bungled that and showed the paper logs off by more than 15 compare to my actual physical location on the planet he will have put me OOS.

There isnt too much thinking. Tonight's is already done, used up. Off duty but tomorrows paper logs are already growing a line and my alarm clock will help me drive to whereever the end of that line says for me to be at that particular time in the future.

 

I don't think so Sparky

 

Swifties can do whatever they set their minds to!

 

How to trip plan with elogs for ontime delivery--

 

yep, I heard of a driver who determined that his stopping point was going to be a small Love's 110 miles up the road which he knew was going to be full to overflowing with parking at 2100. So he stopped short and went to bed and woke up 7 hours later and drove to the Loves and sat there for about 45 minutes and took off again-- all this was done 'off duty / sleeper' because he was on his *10* at the Loves all night on paperlogs. He drove over 980 miles that day in reality but the paper logs recorded two 700 mile days. A few days later getting inspected at a weigh station, this driver was commended by the officer for being such and honest driver an given a clean inspection.