Ok, It This Maybe A Little Odd?

Is there thread of that somewhere, Rainy? I'd really like to get that straightened out in my head before any school.

Is there thread of that somewhere, Rainy? I'd really like to get that straightened out in my head before any school.

You can search for HOS or Hours Of Service. The "14" Rainy is talking about is an HOS absolute limit on your work day time. If you do any On Duty work, or Drive, you must knock off for the day before 14 hours after your start time. To reset that daily clock, you need to stay Off Duty for 10 hours.

The HOS rules involve two "clocks" every day. This is often confusing for newbies, but in no time you learn to live with it. Your best bet to learn about this is in the Hours Of Service section of the High Road Training Program

My company gives you an atlas in orientation and tells you to be prepared to use it during training. At the trainers discretion they will allow you to use the qualcomm gps for a couple days at the end of training.. and thats it just so you know what its like.

The company gives you the regular bound non laminated one but will sell you a spiral bound laminated one at their cost and will payroll deduct the $10 or so from your pay if you want one.

We are expected to never rely on gps and always use an atlas. After 10 months, my paper one is on its last leg lol.. Think ill pick another up in Cedar Rapids tomorrow when we are having our Qualcomm replaced. YEP, WE ARE ALSO ON PAPER TODAY as the touch screen was accidentally broken.

As a lease-purchaser my trainer always checks the state's fuel tax before he plans fuel stop. I haven't got this figured out but he gets a big chunk of tax back. I can't explain how this works.

There's a myth among lease ops that buying fuel in a state with lower fuel taxes saves money. I say myth because that little IFTA sticker on the truck guarantees that you're going to pay the tax for any state you drive through, whether you buy fuel there or not. The taxes paid for each state are based on the number of miles you traveled through and your average mpg. In fact, IFTA was created because drivers avoided higher fuel taxes by buying fuel in other states, and the high tax states got mad at the loss of revenue. When I was leasing, the IFTA reconciliation was on my settlement every quarter. I always got a refund, but that just means they were holding back too much for three months.

The better reason to know fuel tax rates is to be able to subtract them from the price so you'll be able to compare the actual price of the fuel. For example, if it's $2.67 a gallon in a state with a 25 cent tax, that's a better place to fuel than the neighboring state where the price is $2.56 a gallon but their tax is 13 cents. Either way, you pay the taxes in both states. The question is how much does the fuel itself cost?

The other thing knowing fuel tax rates can do for you is to help decide which route to take on a long trip. Sometimes it's worth going an extra 100 miles and burning 12 gallons more fuel to avoid states with really high taxes.