You run out of hours, not allowed to park on property for your 10

Either Crete spoke to someone higher up on the DOT food chain with more knowledge, or there is a pilot program that Crete / Shaffer / Hunt is involved in, because leaving a receiver while on line 5 with an empty trailer and traveling to a safe place to park and rest is not just allowed, it's official company policy that you can do so.

I have extreme doubts that Crete would have a company policy to do something illegal. That leads to insane lawsuits.

 

My company's policy is to call dispatch when I have 3 hours left on my 14. They will call the shipper / receiver. If I'm in the door, I'll either be loaded / unloaded and rolling within an hour. If I'm not yet in the door, I'll either be loaded / unloaded and rolling within an hour, or leaving the facility within 10 minutes of the call. If I'm in the door and partially loaded / unloaded with one hour left on my 14, I'll be told to drop the trailer in the door and bobtail to a place where I can take my 10 hour break.

My company doesn't tolerate shipper / receiver shenanigans. Yours shouldn't either.

 

I tell my shipper I need a safe space.

 

I need a load of beautiful people to chase. We will have a party. No stress allowed. You can round up the staffers at the front office to start things off while we hose down the unoccupied lumpers out back.

Tease...

I bet the shipper would have a discombulation...

 

You have an active imagination. Party people, hoses, and lumpers..

 

I think that is quite enough for one night.

I scare myself sometimes because I recall some things that cannot be unseen in some of the syscos like the one in Albany...

 

I’ll leave that one to somebody else’s imagination..

 

Me too.

All is well. I wish you a good evening. I don't want to come off any more stupid than I have already today.

 

I wonder how that's supposed to work with a car carrier since we never bobtail... well hardly ever..

 

I make it a point to let the dock no when im down to 2 hours and when i get to less than one I let them know im dropping the trailer and will be back in 10 to pick it up. I've never had a problem or been told no (dry van)