That is the law as I understand it. No FOS can circumvent it. I’m aware of P&d drivers who punch out for lunch while there working on a customers dock so they can make all their pick ups.
And dispatch had no problem telling you to do this at FDX , or be punished the next week on any P&D route that was all drop and wheel , appointments , food whse , unlimited stops and don't you dare bring anything back , miss a appointment or P/U's. Going have to punish ya another week or two.
How are they gonna punish you
The lunch between 4th and 6th was a Conway policy. It’s up to your dispatcher to make sure your able to take your lunch. If you can’t.
Send ya on a route leavin an hour late with plenty of residentials, oversize garbage needin a hand unload, sort and segregates, and time consumin crap with about 18 other deliveries on the wagon.
Do what you can do, bring the rest back.
Legal as long as you take your break before the 8th hour since your last off duty or sleeper birth log entry. From what I'm taking from the rule, the eight hour period it speaks to is the sum of on duty and driving time. What I have is line haul guys telling me is that the 8 hours the rule speaks to applies only to driving. I don't see that in the rule.
Yep. Most of our runs are 3 to 4.5 hours one way so you can most definitely work the dock until your past 8 hrs on duty then take your lunch.
So you're saying for example, that a total of driving and on duty time of 8.5 hours can elapse for a linehaul driver before he must take his 30 minutes as long as his next log entry prior to driving again is off duty. Then there is a double standard being applied to L/H vs.city drivers, is there not?
This is not the company's rule. I found it here. https://www.fmcsa.dot.gov/sites/fmc...the_30-Minute_Rest_Break_Provision_508CLN.pdf
Then we were trained incorrectly. I stand corrected. You have to take your lunch before your 8 is up.
I guess that’s where I am confused on this issue . I thought from the time you punched the 8 hours started if you drove anytime at all in the first 8 hours be it if you drove right off or didn’t drive til into your 6th hour . That the 30 minute break had to happen from your punch time . Because if I work the dock 2 hours then go sign into the ELD and start peddling my handheld talks to the ELD when I log in and it shows driving now but on duty not driving for previous 2 hours and 30 minute break due in 6 hours .
Sounds right. I think it’s easier to think you have to take a lunch in the city before 8 hours from your start punch. So the company policy of between 4-6 makes sense.
Some states have a lunch requirement and I think companies based their policies off of them to keep things uniform across the system.
