my buddy works for a company that hauls coal/rock he goes from pville,il to bonne terre,moback to granite city,il back down to st genevieve,mo over to duquoin il back to pville every day 11 to 12 hours a day. puts in 4 to 5 hundred miles a day. in his log book he fills out he puts down on duty not driving for his day.is that legal?

100 miles or less you have to keep track of the hours you work per day, not a logbook, but I don't know if that applies to jobs where you cross the state line as he does.

Where does he work? I know I am nosy, but this is my neck of the woods, I live in Fredericktown, MO and have looked for a decent paying local job, and always keep my ears open.

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As far as I can tell the 100 mile radius driver has to have a time card or other established method of recordkeeping by the employer to track hours worked. That does not mean he cannot keep a log book, and i'm pretty sure the employer can use that as the record of hours worked for pay and recordkeeping reuirements.

That part of the question gives a "yes" to is it legal.

However, I think it would be reasonable to say that (regardless of the actual hours involved) if you are driving a couple hundred miles a day and fillling out a log that only has "on duty not driving" then your friendly DOT man would look at that as falsification. I'd be hard pressed to come up with a legal explanation to him about why I'm driving a truck and my log does not have any driving time in it?

I'm wondering, does he also put down 400-500 miles each day for miles driven? I think that would absolutely seal the deal on the falsification ... drove 500 miles in 0 hours -- he'd be a dispatchers dream come true