Early morning useless post thread

[LKTraz]

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Basically it comes down to what 99% of all drivers do. You cut and slide things around to make the log book work to your best monetary advantage.

Example: If i would do it "by the book" and show finishing my day at say 6PM then I could not come back on duty till 4AM as the requirement is 10 hours off between tours. BUT......if I do that I can't take the decent trip since I'd need to get started at 2:30AM so I'd get stuck with a shitty but time consuming run that started later and paid less thus ending later and fucking me for yet another day into yet another shitty late run.

Therefore......its advantageous to not log by the wristwatch but rather by dividing the mileage by the theoretical highest speed it could be done at.

Now this is a good run but if done by the wristwatch one would fuck ones-self.
The one that goes up Twisty's way: It takes 6 hours to run from our plant to Fredonia,NY when loaded. (Slow pulling up hills and slow acceleration) It's a distance of 319 miles.
319 miles divided by 64 MPH average = 4.98 since you can only log quarter hour increments and to round down would show you speeding then round up to 5 hours. The ride back can actually be done in 5.25 hours since we are only carrying a maximum of 4,400 lbs of empty reusable totes. It takes .25 hrs to get to the trailer to hook up for the trip to the customer and upon return we must go PAST the plant to the shop to fuel the trailer (refrigerated) then come back to the plant to drop it and then return to the shop to park.

Totals as I log are .25 to pick up 5 to deliver 5.25 to shop to fuel .25 to plant .25 to return to the shop. This totals 11 driving hours and is the maximum allowed by law. There are 3 more "work" hours available that aren't spent driving but no matter what we must be done 14 hours after starting regardless of how the time was spent. After 14 hrs we MUST take 10 hours off. As well after 11 hrs of driving we must stop wherever we may be and take 10 off.

If I would go by the book then I'd end up out of drive time 30 minutes away from the plant in the middle of bumfuck nowhere and have to spend 10 hours there with no type of facilities whatsoever. Granted I'd be paid an additional $30 for being out "overnight" but it's not worth the $$ to be that close and not be able to head home and sleep in my own bed.

There's where I end up with undocumented hours as well as not logging trivial shit like sitting and doing paperwork when I'm done. Yeah, we're SUPPOSED to log it but nobody does and sometimes it can take 30 - 45 minutes to do.

Now if I go to on a regular run like from the plant to Boyertown then down to Elizabeth and back I get paid the same whether it takes me 9 hours or 14 hours. Why eat up time when you don't have to? (On the book that is) Sure as shit since we're allowed 70 hours in 8 days if I'd eat it up, I'd end up coming short and miss on a decent run as opposed to a shitty local run to 2 or 3 egg houses and have to load eggs for a short trip to the storage bldg.

See?