re: Flatbed Truck Shortage

You're allotted 14 hours per day of On Duty time, 11 hours of Driving time. Once the truck is put into Pre-Trip mode it goes to On Duty, when the truck moves it goes to On Duty/Driving when you arrive at a loading location you mark yourself as Loading, that stops your Driving time but still allows your On Duty time to tick away. So a driver could leave his house at 9am, arrive at a loading location at 10am, wait 6 hours to get loaded. By now its 4pm, that driver has only 7 hours of On Duty time left even though he's only driven for 1 hour on the day. The 14 hour On Duty period runs out before he's had the chance to drive for his 11 hours. This is why loading and unloading times will become critical more than ever. It'll especially get shippers/receivers attention when a truck runs out of hours on their yard and can't move and must take a 10 hour break on their lot.

With paper logs that same driver could cheat the system and show his load time as being shorter, thus not eating into his 14 hour On Duty status as much.

Hopefully this isn't too confusing