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<blockquote data-quote="Epoisode7" data-source="post: 1151726" data-attributes="member: 47942"><p>Thank you for vindicating my experience, HD. What they wanted us to do was a bit worse. Here's how much work time had lapsed before we even logged in:</p><p></p><p>1) We keep our vehicles at home and drive about 90 minutes to the terminal in the AM: 1.5 hours</p><p>2) Pack our town trucks as the package handler unloads the Ground trailer: 1 hour (or more)</p><p>3) Print out manifests, grab call tags, listen to the terminal manager</p><p> rattle on about some incident that happened 400 miles away, gas up, etc. 30 minutes</p><p>4) Drive 90 minutes back to the edge of our routes 1.5 hours</p><p>5) Call CPC for a remote login password, log in, organize stops on manifest 15 minutes</p><p></p><p>On average, we cheated the scanner/DOT times by an average of 4 hours, 45 minutes every single day. I do consider this an extreme case because we are so small and remote. If we logged in at 5am when we leave home, I think it's a real possibility we would violate DOT timeframes much more than the allowed 6 times per year. </p><p></p><p>By logging in remotely, it gives whoever views this information the illusion that we are somehow loading here and not driving 170 miles round trip everyday. Not only that, but once a week we'd take turns running all the outbound packages back to the terminal, so it was a double drive of 340 miles + route milage of about 40, resulting in 380 miles of driving, even on a light day. On these days we'd log in remotely, then log out before we made the trip to the terminal. Very shady.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Epoisode7, post: 1151726, member: 47942"] Thank you for vindicating my experience, HD. What they wanted us to do was a bit worse. Here's how much work time had lapsed before we even logged in: 1) We keep our vehicles at home and drive about 90 minutes to the terminal in the AM: 1.5 hours 2) Pack our town trucks as the package handler unloads the Ground trailer: 1 hour (or more) 3) Print out manifests, grab call tags, listen to the terminal manager rattle on about some incident that happened 400 miles away, gas up, etc. 30 minutes 4) Drive 90 minutes back to the edge of our routes 1.5 hours 5) Call CPC for a remote login password, log in, organize stops on manifest 15 minutes On average, we cheated the scanner/DOT times by an average of 4 hours, 45 minutes every single day. I do consider this an extreme case because we are so small and remote. If we logged in at 5am when we leave home, I think it's a real possibility we would violate DOT timeframes much more than the allowed 6 times per year. By logging in remotely, it gives whoever views this information the illusion that we are somehow loading here and not driving 170 miles round trip everyday. Not only that, but once a week we'd take turns running all the outbound packages back to the terminal, so it was a double drive of 340 miles + route milage of about 40, resulting in 380 miles of driving, even on a light day. On these days we'd log in remotely, then log out before we made the trip to the terminal. Very shady. [/QUOTE]
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