Repower Woes

Sounds to me like you’re mad you lost your load. Here’s a hint, don’t take 34’s while under a load.

 

Unless the repower is coming to you, then outlaw it would be. PC anyone?????

 

I guess if you wanted to be absolutely legal, you could have the other driver move your truck out from the trailer, but that seems kinda silly.

 

"Repowers"


I'm sorry the OP is having this issue. If it were not for the fact I would never release my trailer until the one being dropped was road legal, I would just drop it, show the 15 mins noting dropped trailer and leave the bills in the bills holder. Then once I came back on duty show pick up the trailer and go. I would not do this, however, just too dang many drivers that don't give a whistler's Mother about their jobs and if you are not careful they will drop a POS on you! I am just crotchety like that!

 

Ok, i get that.

But how did your clock get bumped? Back when i worked for a mega & had to repower loads, i would make sure to have two side by side parking spots. Even if i had to drop my trailer to reserve the open spot next to me.

i would never log the repower during a break. I would do it & log the 15minutes d&h with my pretrip after my break.

Nobody can prove what employee performed what work, if any. As for the eld, i’d of logged it into pc or just stayed slow enough not to trigger it.

No offense meant here, this is constructive criticism ..tripping the eld and burning hours is your own fault. Possibly caused by a lack of experience. Hopefully this was a good learning experience for you.

 

If that happened to me I'd just use PC and put "personal errands" as the remark. When I come back after reset I would show "trailer switch" at truck stop. I'd definitely not go on duty for 15 minutes and ruin 16 hours of reset time.

 

If all your clock did was go on duty ya can edit that an put that back to off duty time. If it kicked on to the drive line than ya can't fix it. Safety can fix that but only if they're willing to do so. When ya do stuff like that ya gotta crawl to keep under the speed limit threshold that kicks it onto driving.