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Just wanted to say YouTube has several great backing videos. The one from CR England really made things easy to understand.

You should always go off duty while at shipper/receiver. But the only way to stop your HOS clock is to go into sleeper berth for a minimum of 8 hours. That way you preserve your remaining hours on your 11 & 14 hour clocks.

Most of the time you will not even come close to 8 hours at the dock.

Hope this helps.

Ernie

I know this thread is from a year ago but nobody came up with the correct action. Actually you should be on duty - not driving at the shipper and most companies will expect this. However if its the end of the duty day and your running out of hours go to sleeper berth you don't need to stay 8 hours only 2 hrs for the split, then when they are done loading / unloading you drive to your parking for the night. Any status in the log can be edited except driving time. So if you stayed two hours or more at the dock use the sleeper berth time if less than 2 hrs and you can make it to the truck stop change that time back to on-duty not driving.

The point being that if you are approaching your 14hrs for a delay at the shipper go to sleeper berth and it freezes the 14 hr clock. you can always "EDIT". I'm not advocating fudging the logs or rules, but with this catch 22 situation this will keep everyone happy.

Tim