Your experience with violating HOS.

This is the issue with elog. Clock says time to drive. If you don't dispatch raises hell. No flexibility.

 

Android tablet mounted next to GPS, with Google Maps open. It will periodically update.

I'll enter my to: and from: points to get Google Maps to route me between the points. It won't be a 'valid' truck route, but it will be close enough to count. Once you're moving, the app will alert you to changing traffic conditions along your route. If you back out of your route and then go back in, it will update to show you the quickest route based on traffic conditions.

Since it's a 'car' app, you'll need to decide for yourself whether or not the new route is restricted to trucks or has low clearances.

 

Clock says you're legal to drive. Dispatch says get moving. I say: "I'm not rested enough to be safe to drive at the moment." Dispatch backs off.

End of story.

Grow a set, driver.

 

HOS protect you? Wtf you're talking about

 

This. I'm so sick of the whole elogs make me drove when tired straw man argument.

 

If not for hos regs you would be working 20 hours a day, some weeks more than 30 hours straight, or you wouldn't have a job.

 

I tell you what.

If you are running within the HOS, as laid down in the regulations you are not breaking the law. You are not driving tired. What more do you want spelled out? ARE you dense?

 

Get a bit more creative than that. Could you reasonably argue that the truck stops were all full so you had to keep driving to the next safe place to park?

Example: i live in Sarasota Florida, quite often my load home will deliver down near Miami, 180 miles away. We all know there is very limited parking in Miami, and up 27 there is only the truck stops in South bay. That's still 100 miles from Sarasota. I delivery in Miami and have enough time on my clock to get to south bay, and they are all full. I'm almost out of hours and now with no safe place to park so i have no choice but to continue on. Its not my fault the very next safe place to park is my drive way.

Yes i have been through a dot inspection with that exact scenario in the last 8 days and when the officer asked me why i ran over by 1.5 hours 6 days ago, after explaining it to him he had no issue with it. Again, they are looking for habitual offenders not guys who go over once every few weeks. Heck i could of just called it all personal conveyance but i try not to take advantage of the pc rule.

 

Yes you are.