Profile For Crystal C.

@Turtle - See that was my original thinking on the subject as well. But how do I keep him from coming home if he is that close and bound and determined to come on home?

I also found out from my ELD company Monday, that when the truck is home to just unplug the ELD. It is a Ram 3500 and I was trying to setup myself and my Husband as drivers in the system but exempt for logs as we do not need a CDL to operate when taking for oil changes, etc when it is not hooked to a trailer. In their software, the exempt option was greyed out, and when I called them about it, they said when it is on Personal Conveyance, or we are driving, etc to just reach down and unplug the ELD. That felt sketchy to me, but if I don't, there will be events in the system with no driver to assign them to. Which did occur Monday because I called the ELD support Friday and they did not get back to me until I called again Monday.

My driver is 45 with well over 20 years experience, but this is his first time running electronic logs. The last several years he's either been running wreckers or dump trucks locally.

Thanks for getting back to me everyone. Both of his unloads Friday were super quick and he actually made it fully home with 30 minutes to spare. We live in a small town in OK so everything coming or going is minimum around a 50 mile dead head. His last stop this time was Rogers, AR so a fairly decent dead head but I was trying to get him home for Easter. I would actually allow him to take the truck and trailer home, but he lives in a small neighborhood in town with no where he could possible park it. What he does is drives about 10 miles out to my house out in the country, then gets in and heads to his first load from there. So any time he is coming home, technically he comes to my house first (which is also the business address) then heads home. Although I can see this definitely happening again in the future.

I have a driver that will be a couple hours from home when he hits running out of hours for the day (70 hrs, not daily 14) He will be unloaded and not currently hauling anything for my company. I have offered to buy him a hotel room for tonight for him to finish up tomorrow morning. He is a hotshot driver. Ram 3500 and 40 ft trailer so there is no sleeper. If I have performed my duty as the business owner i.e. offering to pay the hotel and he is finished working for me for the day and unloaded, will I get in trouble if he decides to drive on home tonight?