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Originally Posted by matcat
I don't see why that wouldn't apply. If you are empty and not in dispatch, and your home is only 2 and a half hours away. Now as the regs state however if you get a load while at home, you must log it leaving your home however.
It is because of this line:
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When a driver is relieved from work and all responsibility for performing work, time spent traveling from a driver’s home to his/her terminal (normal work reporting location), or from a driver’s terminal to his/her home , may be considered off-duty
How can an irregular route OTR or regional driver be said to have a normal work reporting location?
Beyond whatever way a person wishes to interpret this reg/guideline there is one other factor to consider. What is the trucking company policy on this? I know many companies do not allow, under any circumstances, the use of the truck as a personal conveyance or they do not allow the truck to be driven on anything other than line 3.