How Do YOU Manage Your 70 HOS?

I have a hypothetical question. Suppose you have been off duty at the shipper for 8 hours and you are now loaded and ready to go. They have room for you to park and take 2 more hours off to complete your 10 hour break. When you start your truck to move it from the dock to a parking area how does that affect your 10 hour break?

It doesn't. Here at Prime, as long as I am not moving more than 2 miles, my clock does not start. So to move from the dock to the parking area, should not trip your clock. If it does, you should be able to change to off duty/sleeper as long as it has not been running for more than 4 minutes (at least that is how it works here at Prime).

Hope that helps to shed some light on the subject for you.

Ernie

Exactly what Ernest said.

You basically just drive in 1st gear but not touching the pedal to accelerate. You'll basically be driving walking speed to your parking spot. Of course you could just drive there asap too. It will automatically switch you to driving if you are doing it for 4 minutes or more. So if you spend a minute to drive there quickly then you'll be fine. But I prefer to crawl there in the 1st gear to not risk it.

My qualcomm is set up the same way that Ernie's is. It won't set your clock to running until you've driven 2 miles. They are set like this for a reason, at some shippers I may have to visit four or five different buildings just to get my whole load (building supply distribution centers like Menard's are bad about this).

I just wanted to add that you will develop your own style of how you like to run, and the type of freight your dealing with will have some bearing on this decision also. I tend to focus more on trying to get in to my receivers early more so than I focus on spreading my hours out evenly through the week. Anytime I can get in and get unloaded early it sets me up for another load to pick up. I drive a flat-bed and so my loading times are usually not too bad. I sometimes will run just as hard as I can for most of the week putting in long hours everyday, and then enjoying a break while I try to get in a 34 hour break. I find that I get more jobs completed in a week that way and I'm fresh and ready to get after it again after taking a little break. For me, I get larger paychecks by managing my time that way.

Thanks Old School, it really helps to hear the different views.