Question On Detention Pay

When your at the shipper or receiver, and your qualified for detention pay how would that go onto you logs. I mean do have to stay on duty and burn your hours or can you go into sleeper or off duty and it will still apply?

You can be off duty and still receive it. It has nothing to do with whether you were on duty or not, it's just compensation for them making you wait an excessive amount of time, no matter what you were doing.

When your at the shipper or receiver, and your qualified for detention pay how would that go onto you logs. I mean do have to stay on duty and burn your hours or can you go into sleeper or off duty and it will still apply?

When your at the shipper or receiver, and your qualified for detention pay how would that go onto you logs. I mean do have to stay on duty and burn your hours or can you go into sleeper or off duty and it will still apply?

Joshua...we are told that we are not allowed to go off duty at a shipper or receiver...so I would go to sleeper. Make sure you do it immediately after your backed to a dock....it saves your 70 . After a year, unless it is a gross negligence delay, I very rarely apply for detention.

Josh, detention is actually pretty rare. The better deal is go Sleeper as soon as you're docked, then make that a 30 minute break if you can. Be sure to punch in as On Duty when you get your bills.

I just checked my Swift Handbook. (Most companies will be the same.):

Drivers under the following are not eligible for Detention Pay: On down time (in the sleeper berth), HOS breaks, home time, or waiting to be dispatched.

Good to know thanks guys

I think it really depends on the company. some will allow you to go off duty while at shippers and receivers some do not.

I havr gotten mixed responses from us xpress depending on the employee i asked at my orientation. one person said you have to be on duty to get detention, another said you need to be on duty the whole time even if you're not gonna get it and another told me you only need to log 15 min of on duty not driving when you get there and before you leave and have to send a macro to update status every hour to get detention however if you choose you can put a memo in that macro saying you'll be in sleeper birth so they don't expect a macro every hour.

I'll find out from my dispatch what they want since that's who makes that choice I think.