Posted by John in La on March 29, 2014 at 10:40:49 from (96.33.136.54):
Jon I will explain this a little better than you need so others can follow along.
Peoplenet is a time tracking devise for truck drivers that tracks your every move. A onboard log book. We are not allowed to work over 14 hours from the start of our day. So if we start at 6am we can not work past 8pm. We need 10 consecutive hours off to reset our 14 hour clock.
Now that others can understand what we are talking about; I was talking to a wrecker driver this morning about several tows he has made. Perfectly good truck towed from the truck stop to the unloading dock (wal mart) because the driver was out of hours and the truck had peoplenet.
Seems these guys come into town and can not go to unload because it is not their appointment time so they go to the truck stop. The problem is their appoint time is past their 14 hours and before their break is up so the company is paying a wrecker to tow the truck from the truck stop to wal mart.
Lets use a for instance..... A driver has a appointment in Houston to load at 8am. It takes 1 hour so he leaves Houston at 9am and drives the 6 hours to southeast Louisiana. He has worked 7 hours today and it is 3pm. But Wal Mart gives him a appointment to unload at midnight. He can not go to Wal Mart before his appointment time so he goes to the local truck stop. Problem is his 14 hours was up at 10pm and even though he started a break at 3pm his 10 hour break is not up till 1am. So he can not legally work at midnight and with peoplenet recording his every move he can not move so the company calls a wrecker to meet the appointment time.
While all this could have been prevented with drop and hook some companies do not have that option. We could also blame the driver. He should have loaded; took a break in Houston or so where on the way to where his 10 hour break would have been up and he could arrive in town just in time for his appointment. But I do not see drivers thinking that far ahead.
I can see major repercussions coming once this happens enough to the same driver and/or company.
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