705red
Browncafe Steward
Sorry, I could not find in the Federal Law the provisions about the DOT regulated employee must have access to restrooms and proper lunch place.
You are probably right though (with your degree in locker room law), I'll go back and read that law again or maybe UPS lawyers already have.
So as a Cut Driver who spends alot of days in the middle of nowhere.........
New rules regarding how and where break is spent in the Minnesnowta district.
Any driver who wishes to take break cannot break trace by more than .25 miles.
Break starts as soon as driver breaks trace, and ends when driver is back on trace. Break time must be coded when the vehicle is stopped and the engine is shut off.
And finally for those of us who can't make it to a gas station or restaurant when it -10, any break taken on trace must be done so with the vehicle stopped and the engine shut OFF.
All this is very interesting. What's even more interesting is when meeting with the strongarms from the Union to tell them that " we own the trucks and pay for the gas, so we get to make the rules." All they said in reply was NOTHING. I'm glad to see where my dues go.
I don't really think any of this will fly in the long run, but until then I'll just continue to bang my head against my bulkhead.
http://www.fmcsa.dot.gov/rules-regulations/topics/hos/index.htm
File a complaint with your DOT and don't listen to wanna be operation sups that are tied down to a cubicle in the basement somewhere! Ups lawyers are not god and have been proved wrong many many many times over and over again. I have already filed a complaint with the DOT because on Thursday they instructed us to do this. DO not falsify your diad, this is our log book and you can and will be charged for altering and falsifying it.
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