Stupid 14 Hour Clock

I find it very much annoying to be @ a shipper or consignee and being on the good ole eobr or electronic logs you know you clock off duty and it ****es me off that you can't stop your 14 hour clock even when your sitting waiting to get loaded I.e. live load or your waiting to get unloaded and the shipper or consignee takes there sweet time and burns up your freaking clock reSulting in less miles you can drive there should be some kind of law that they HAVE a time frame to unload or load you and not waste all your time they have never drove a truck or do they understand the rules that us truckers have to follow.......

Waaaahll..

Welcome To Trucking...

Rick

Learn to get loaded and unloaded when you are off the clock. Sleeping at the shipper/receiver is one of the best ways to avoid it. Obviously it doesn't always work out, but I try to when I can. Welcome to trucking. Hurry up and wait.

Paid detention? Send the macro go to sleep, get paid to sleep. Wake up, get paid to drive...

Rinse and repeat.

Bryan, I remember a quote from somewhere in my foggy memory that went something like this: "Time flies... But at least you are the pilot."

What I am trying to point out is that you have got to learn to manage it no matter what the shipper/receiver pulls on you.

I have to assume that you are just getting started at this, because that is a problem that most rookies run into.

There are several ways to deal with issues like this. One is to learn how to maximize your driving hours by understanding the split sleeper rules. Here's an example:

I used to often times go to a shipper in Connecticut that regularly took six hours to load me. I would do one of two things when I was going there.

1) I would sleep across the street in a vacant parking lot so that I could roll into their property when they opened the gate in the morning. That way I didn't even have my clock running while they were loading me. When they finally got finished I still had a full day ahead of me to roll.

2) If I couldn't work that out I would just show up and get myself on the sleeper berth line until they were finished. That way if I stayed there parked on their place for just two more hours my fourteen hour clock would be paused and I would have the same amount of time that I had when I first arrived there.

That second option is the split sleeper rule. You can learn all about it by working your way through the section for logs in our High Road Training Program.

Awesome sauce thanks to all of you very much for your helpful Post's

Bryan, I remember a quote from somewhere in my foggy memory that went something like this: "Time flies... But at least you are the pilot."

What I am trying to point out is that you have got to learn to manage it no matter what the shipper/receiver pulls on you.

I have to assume that you are just getting started at this, because that is a problem that most rookies run into.

There are several ways to deal with issues like this. One is to learn how to maximize your driving hours by understanding the split sleeper rules. Here's an example:

I used to often times go to a shipper in Connecticut that regularly took six hours to load me. I would do one of two things when I was going there.

1) I would sleep across the street in a vacant parking lot so that I could roll into their property when they opened the gate in the morning. That way I didn't even have my clock running while they were loading me. When they finally got finished I still had a full day ahead of me to roll.

2) If I couldn't work that out I would just show up and get myself on the sleeper berth line until they were finished. That way if I stayed there parked on their place for just two more hours my fourteen hour clock would be paused and I would have the same amount of time that I had when I first arrived there.

That second option is the split sleeper rule. You can learn all about it by working your way through the section for logs in our High Road Training Program.

Old School says it best. In planning your trip, assume a certain amount of time needed at the stop, and plan accordingly.

The Split Sleeper technique works, but it's a lot like a card trick: to you it's amazing "your" card appears at the top of the deck, but to other magicians it's just more entertainment.

The Split Sleeper technique works, but it's a lot like a card trick: to you it's amazing "your" card appears at the top of the deck, but to other magicians it's just more entertainment.

As someone who used to be a professional magician, I concur.

The Split Sleeper technique works, but it's a lot like a card trick: to you it's amazing "your" card appears at the top of the deck, but to other magicians it's just more entertainment.

As someone who used to be a professional magician, I concur.

I used to be a professional magician also. Many moons ago.