First day on road
- Thread starter UrFellowUpser
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We are required to take the full hour. Discipline gets dished out to those who violate.
UrFellowUpser
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9 minutes over. Do you think they will let me slide with that
We have the option of 30 or 60 minutes.
KOG72
I’m full of it
I wouldn't worry about 9 minutes my center frowns about being 45 minutes to an hour over
KOG72
I’m full of it
No option here must be 60
We got that in our last local supplement.
I Just Wanna Go Home
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Huh didn't know you HAD to take a break. Must be a different center different rules kind of thing. At my center not a single driver takes a lunch break. And if they do it's less than 10 minutes. Never gotten in trouble for not taking a lunch
Rack em
Made the Podium
I'm sure the DOT would have something to say about that.
UrFellowUpser
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I really dont know when to take a break to be honest. It just dont seem there is enough time in the day with all the time commitments to take one.
UrFellowUpser
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What i do is take out my lunch on the way back to the station after im done. It takes like 50 mins to get back. Thats what my ORS did with me when i was on road with him them three days in training so i just do that. But im sure thats working on the clock though
No, nope and no freaking way in hell.
Tell your ORS to stick it where the sun doesn't shine. Never drive on break time.
PT Car Washer
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Pretty sure that could get you fired. Called falsifying your time card.
UrFellowUpser
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I noticed some of the new drivers like me taking their hour break when they got back to the hub how about that cause i just dont see how i can take it doing the day. It just so much that needs to be done
PT Car Washer
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Not just new drivers. I have seen experienced drivers sitting in the break room taking break after coming in. You have to take a lunch break but you also have to be back to the building by a certain time.
UrFellowUpser
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How do you take yours? I feel like my ORS taught me a bad thing to do.
Macbrother
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My first day I punched out at 9:15pm, without taking a lunch. (You have 100% flexibility in my center, from 0 to 30 to the full hour). Gas tank was on E and I was in the dark on some 2 mile gravel road for my last stop. I remember praying to make it back to the building in one piece. However I can say with a small bit of pride I had 0 late, 0 missed, and no help.
It gets better.
It gets better.
PT Car Washer
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I will let a FT package car driver answer that question.
Will you be forced back to preload after peak?
Yes, he/she did.
Your lunch break must be taken within a specific time period specified in your supplement.
